EconomiX-CNRS and the Doctoral School EOS (Université Paris Nanterre), CeReFiM (University of Namur), LFIN (Université Catholique de Louvain-Louvain School of Management) and LEO (Université d'Orléans) are co-organizing the 9^th 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 of papers is open until January 10, 2020.

• Acceptance decision: Mid-February 2020
• Presenting authors registration: End of February 2020
• Conference: March 20, 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 (Submit a paper) 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 catholique de Louvain and Université de Namur, sophie.bereau@uclouvain.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)