December 22-23, 2024
Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen, China
 
Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), in collaboration with the International Economic Review (IER), is pleased to announce the inaugural PHBS-IER conference on “Financial Frictions for Firms and Households: Implications for Economic Development and Government Policies.” It will take place at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, China, on December 22-23, 2024. The conference offers the opportunity for conference papers to be considered for a special issue of the IER. Dirk Krueger is the editor in charge representing the IER.
 
This conference aims to bring together a set of papers that analyze financial frictions, government policies, and their consequences for macroeconomic dynamics and economic growth. Papers can, but do not have to, focus on the Chinese economy. Topics that are of interest to the conference include (but are not limited to):
 
· Financial markets and their interactions with the real economy
· Consumer credit and household finance and consumption
· Banking development and credit market developments: new technologies, and government regulation
· Monetary and fiscal policies and their interactions
· Exchange rate policy and Capital flows
· Macroprudential policy and other unconventional policy tools
· Optimal Policy in the presence of financial frictions
· Small and micro-enterprise finance and its real consequences
· Housing Market and financial stability
· Innovations and economic development
· Entrepreneurship and the aggregate economy
· Financial frictions and structural change
 
Paper Submission
 
Authors are invited to submit electronic versions of their papers in PDF format no later than midnight (ET) on Sunday, June 30, 2024, via the submission website: https://paper.phbs.pku.edu.cn/v1/. Authors can register (for first-time users) or log in to this website to upload your paper. Selected papers for conference presentation will be notified by July 31, 2024.
 
There is no conference submission fee. PHBS will cover economy class airfare and arrange hotel accommodation in Shenzhen for one presenting author of each accepted paper.
 
Special Issue
 
Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be eligible for consideration for inclusion in a special issue of the International Economic Review, subject to editorial review and referee reports. Authors must indicate their interest in having their paper considered for the special issue during the submission process. Papers submitted for the special issue should not be under review at IER as a regular submission or any other journal until the special issue review process concludes. We expect notifications on whether papers will be selected for inclusion in the IER special issue to be sent out by July 31, 2024. For papers invited to be submitted to the special issue, the first-round submission fee at the IER will be waived.
 
Editorial Committee for the Special Issue:
 
Kaiji Chen, Emory University, Associate Editor, IER
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania, Editor, IER
Kai Li, Peking University HSBC Business School
Pengfei Wang, Peking University HSBC Business School