Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association - NOeG20

2nd Call for Papers

The Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) will be held at the

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU-Wien)

Vienna , May 23-24, 2008

This year’s main topic is

10 years EMU

On 1 January 2009 , it will be ten years since the start of the final stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the launch of the euro. The conference will undertake a review of EMU after 10 years. Some of the questions to be dealt with are: the change in euro area’s policy mix, given its asymmetric policy approach (central monetary and decentralized fiscal policy); the need for coordination in a system of decentralized fiscal policy; the euro and intra-EU trade; the impact of the euro on growth and employment; the international role of the euro; euro-area enlargement; the euro and its impact on international stability and volatility; how does real life in the euro area match with the theoretical expectations at the outset?

Invited speakers:

Keynote: Prof. Paul de Grauwe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) on “10 years EMU – What we expected and what we got?”

NOeG Special Lecture: Philip R. Lane (Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College , Dublin ) on “International Currencies and Global Imbalances”.

Panel Discussion on “The pros and cons of the Euro”

The detailed program of NOeG 2008 can be found on the conference homepage (http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/europainstitut/noeg).

We invite you to submit papers either on this year’s conference topic or on all other fields of economics.

It is planned to publish a selection of papers dealing with the main topic of this conference in a special issue of Empirica.

Special Award for Young Economists:

The Austrian Economic Association offers a prize of EUR 750 for outstanding papers of economists of age 35 or less . In case of joint papers, all co-authors have to fulfill this condition. The papers have to be presented at the Annual Meeting.

Submission Procedure:

Please submit a first version of your paper and an abstract via the conference homepage (http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/europainstitut/noeg) by February 22, 2008 .
Decisions about acceptance will be issued by March 28, 2008 .

Registration Procedure:

Registration should be made directly via the conference homepage (http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/europainstitut/noeg). Members of NOeG have free access to the annual meeting. The conference fee for nonmembers is EUR 100,--.

Best regards,
Fritz Breuss

Members of the Program Committee are: Fritz Breuss (chair), Karl Aiginger, Harald Badinger, Stefan Griller, Ingrid Kubin, Michael Landesmann, Peter Mooslechner, Reinhard Neck, Manfred Nermuth, Michael Paffermayr, Gabriele Tondl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Martin Zagler.