9th PhD Student Conference 
in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics

EconomiX-CNRS and the Doctoral School EOS (Université Paris Nanterre), CeReFiM (University of Namur), and LEO (Université d'Orléans) are co-organizing the 9th PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. The conference will be held on March 20, 2020 in Nanterre, France.

Important dates and submission procedure:

Submission deadline: January 10, 2020

Acceptance decision: Mid-February 2020

Presenting authors registration: End of February 2020

Conference: March 20, 2020

Submission of papers is open until January 10, 2020. Papers must necessarily include the author's and co-authors names and institutional affiliations, together with e-mail addresses for correspondence.

The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics.

Anyone wishing to present a paper needs to submit it to a specific session. Please submit a full paper in English at the conference webpage in the appropriate session and topic.

Sessions and covered topics

International macroeconomics:

• Exchange rates, exchange-rate regimes, international monetary system;
• Economic growth, business cycles and economic policies;
• Banking economics and central banking; systemic risk, microprudential and macroprudential supervisions;
• International macroeconomics: other topics.

Financial econometrics:

• Asset prices and market volatility, asset allocation;
• Systemic risk, financial network, interbank network;
• Interactions between financial markets and energy markets;
• Survey data, asset prices expectations and earnings forecasts;
• Credit risk, stress tests and default probabilities estimations; Sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors;
• Yield curve modeling, stocks-bonds nexus, etc…;
• M&A, corporate governance, etc…;
• Financial econometrics: other topics.

Priority will be given to papers with original contributions and empirical applications that address a relevant economic question within the aforementioned topics and have no senior co-authors.

Organizing Committee:

Denisa Georgiana Banulescu (Université d'Orléans, georgiana.banulescu@univ-orleans.fr),

Hamza Bennani (Université Paris Nanterre, h.bennani@parisnanterre.fr),

Sophie Béreau (Université de Namur and Université catholique de Louvain, sophie.bereau@unamur.be),

Christophe Blot (OFCE and Université Paris Nanterre, christophe.blot@sciencespo.fr),

Cécile Couharde (Université Paris Nanterre, cecile.couharde@parisnanterre.fr),

Jean-Yves Gnabo (Université de Namur, jean-yves.gnabo@unamur.be)

Antonia Lopez Villavicencio (Université Paris Nanterre, alopezvi@parisnanterre.fr),

Daria Onori (Université d'Orléans, daria.onori@univ-orleans.fr)

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