International Conference
Reassessment of the ‘Optimal Currency Area’ theory in the persistently heterogeneous European Union
9-10 September 2021, Vilnius
International Conference
Reassessment of the ‘Optimal Currency Area’ theory in the persistently heterogeneous European Union
9-10 September 2021, Vilnius
The international conference organized by the Euro4Europe project team offers an opportunity to discuss and rethink key theories, concepts, and methods on economic integration, business cycles’ asymmetries and synchronization, the transmission of macroeconomic shocks on national, supranational, and regional scales. The Euro4Europe project, funded by the EU Social Fund, explores the impact of European integration on business cycle asymmetries (BCA) and provides empirical evidence about long-standing disputes whether integration increases or decreases BCA.
The conference organizers are keen to hear from researchers who rethink theories and propose new concepts and methods on national business cycle synchronization, transmission of macroeconomic shocks, economic integration and its impact at different geographical scale, regional business cycle synchronization’ impact on resilience and recovery of regions. Conference will be arranged in a hybrid format. There is no registration fee.
Important Dates
1 June, 2021 Deadline for papers submission
15 June, 2021 Notification of acceptance
30 June, 2021 Deadline for registration of participants
Key Areas of the Conference
National Business Cycle Synchronization
Economic Integration and Transmission of Macroeconomics Shocks
The Impact of Economic Integration on Regional Business Cycle Synchronization
Keynote speakers
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes Dr Mohaddes’ main areas of research are applied macroeconomics, energy economics, climate change, and Middle East economics. His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes as well as in leading journals, and have been covered in major international news outlets. He is currently a consultant at the Asian Development Bank and has previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada, a consultant at the United Nations ESCWA, and a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund. |
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Dr. Georgios Georgiadis Dr Georgiadis’ research interests are international macroeconomics, international finance, and macroeconometrics. He has published in leading professional journals such as Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, among many others. Dr Georgiadis has excensively contributed to policy work, covering a wide range of topics (global value chains, service trade liberalization, exchange rate pass-through to import and export prices, among others). |
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Professor Paul de Grauwe Prof. de Grauwes' research interests are international monetary relations, monetary integration, theory and empirical analysis of the foreign-exchange markets, and open-economy macroeconomics. His published books include “The Economics of Monetary Union”, “International Money. Post-war Trends and Theories”, “The exchange rate in behavioral finance framework”. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles covering a lot of topics on monetary and fiscal policies, behavioral economics, structural reforms, growth and inequality, EMU, business cycles, and more. |
Scientific Committee
Dr. Svatopluk Kapounek
Ph. D. Povilas Lastauskas
Dr. Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
Dr. Jarko Fidrmuc
Ph. D. Mariarosaria Comunale
Ph. D. Rima Rubčinskaitė
Ph. D. Laimutė Urbšienė
Ph. D. Algirdas Bartkus
Ph. D. Linas Tarasonis
Organization Committee
Dr. Svatopluk Kapounek
Ph. D. Povilas Lastauskas
Ph. D. Rima Rubčinskaitė
Aistė Simanavičienė
Programme
Starts: 9 a.m. 9th September 2021
Ends: 5 p.m. 10 September 2021
The detailed programme will be announced at the beginning of August.
Call for papers
Research papers falling in the key areas of the conference, broadly interepreted, are welcome. Only completed papers in English (PDF format) should be submitted to .
Venue
Online Teams and Vilnius University, University str 3, Vilnius