Call for Papers
Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy

August 16, 2012 - August 18, 2012, University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada

The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2012. Authors will be notified by April 22, 2012 whether their papers have been accepted.

The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF) is a biennial conference series that alternates between Italy and Canada, but with a different focus each time. This year's theme will draw researchers from urban economics, with a micro focus on long run development, trade, and the environment, and from international macroeconomics with a focus on business cycles, financial markets, and monetary policy. Intersecting these two fields will be researchers on public policy, that is, economists who study the levers that national governments typically wield: taxes, transfers, education, and labor mobility (migration and immigration). We also invite papers in other areas of economics, including general equilibrium, industrial organization, and quantitative methods.

SPEAKERS: Speakers include:
Ed Glaeser, Harvard University
Phil Oreopoulos, University of Toronto
Will Strange, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia and RCEA
David Card, University of California
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank-New York
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and RCEA
Gabriele Fiorentini, University of Florence and RCEA
Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Board-San Francisco
Luca Lambertini, University of Bologna and RCEA
Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario and RCEA
Megan Macgarvie, Boston University
Enrico Moretti, University of California
Petra Moser, Stanford
Giovanni Peri, UC-Davis
Diego Puga, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Matthew Turner, University of Toronto

FEES: There are no submission fees. The registration fee for the conference is:
- Students CAD$50
- RCEA Senior Fellows and Fellows CAD$140
- Others CAD$200
- Late Fee CAD$280

The late fee will be applied to all registrations received after May 14, 2012. The fees include HST and all meals at the conference site, including (except for students) a reception on August 16 and a banquet dinner on August 17.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: To submit a paper please use the conference website: http://www.rcef.ca

Questions about the conference should be addressed to rcef@economics.utoronto.ca