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Open Economies Review - Call for Papers - Special Issue on “Tensions within Globalisation”

Guest Co-Editors: Florence Huart and Alexander Mihailov
Editor-in-Chief: George Tavlas


The 2nd Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance, with a focus theme this year on “Tensions within Globalisation”, will be held online at the University of Lille (France) on 17-18 November 2022. The workshop is jointly organised by Lille Economie Management (LEM-CNRS) (this opens in a new tab) – University of Lille (France) and the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading (GEAR) (this opens in a new tab) – University of Reading (UK). More details will be available on the workshop website (this opens in a new tab). Following the workshop, a special issue of Open Economies Review (this opens in a new tab) will be published by the end of 2023, selecting papers presented at the workshop as well as additionally submitted papers on the theme of focus of the workshop. We solicit theoretical as well as empirical or computational papers to potentially be included in this special issue.


Subject
There have been large disruptions or, at least, changing trends in global trade and finance, due to various kinds of shocks, such as transnational terrorism, populism, the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The disruptions are multifaceted: surge in transportation costs, increase in global protectionism, bottlenecks in global supply chains, restrictions on trade and investment caused by economic sanctions and counter-sanctions, large swings in commodity prices, massive flows of refugees, new national FDI screening regimes, heightened capital flow volatility, growing global imbalances, sharp fluctuations in foreign exchange markets, resurgence of FX interventions, rebound in currency manipulation… What are the consequences of such developments? What are the prospects for global trade and finance? What are the policy challenges? What are the implications for fiscal, monetary, trade, financial, environmental or migration policies?


Topics (include – but are not limited to):

  • A new (post-pandemic, post-war) era for globalisation?
  • Economies’ vulnerability to commodity shocks 
  • Central bank reserves management in time of tensions 
  • Exchange-rate evolution in turbulent periods 
  • Climate change, natural disasters, and economic policies 
  • Global lending conditions in challenging times 
  • New trends in official financial flows 
  • Disasters and migration flows 
  • Effects of economic sanctions 
  • Fiscal policy responses to crises


Submission procedure
Please submit your completed paper by e-mail as pdf file attachment to both Florence Huart (this opens in a new tab) (University of Lille) at florence.huart@univ-lille.fr (this opens in a new tab) and Alexander Mihailov (this opens in a new tab) (University of Reading) at a.mihailov@reading.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab). The deadline for submission for the workshop is 30 September 2022, and for the special issue is 31 January 2023. Decisions for the workshop , following a usual reviewing process by the Scientific Committee, will be circulated by 5 October 2022; decisions for the special issue, after a standard – but accelerated – refereeing process, will be circulated by 15 April 2023. Invited revisions will be due by 30 June 2023.


Download this Call for Papers here (this opens in a new tab).

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