PRESENTATION

 

The Department of Applied Economics V, of the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy,Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) are organizing the 9th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), from 28th June to 29th of June 2012, at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of the Basque Country.

 

Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be three Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers in the following topics:

• Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics
• The Economics of the Financial Transactions Tax
• The Governance of Natural Resources

 

Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged. An Organized Session is one planned in its entirety by a Session Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete package. Session organizers must provide the following details:

• Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name and affiliation of chair (if different than the organizer)
• Titles of the papers (3-4 papers), name(s) and affiliation(s) of authors

 

In addition, contact information must be provided for each participant (name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address).

 

Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions there will also be graduate student sessions (i.e. students currently reading for MA/MSc or PhD programmes). In these parallel sessions, students can present their research and discuss that of other students. Participants in graduate student sessions will pay a lower conference fee. Please provide proof of status at the time of payment; this can consist of proof of enrolment or a letter from the supervisor or department chair.

 

The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions' is May 25, 2012.

 

The Journal Panoeconomicus will publish a special issue with papers presented at the conference. Papers of high quality will be considered for this special issue. All submitted papers will be considered for this special issue. The selection of the paper will be made by the Scientific Committee of the Conference. The final decision about the papers to be published will be subject to a process of anonymous evaluation.

 

For more information, you can contact Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) or Maribel Garcia-del-Valle (teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es)