Call For Papers
Domestic and International Dimensions of Unconventional Monetary Policy

A conference jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

March 20-21, 2014, Hong Kong, China

This conference will bring together economists from academia and policy institutions to review and assess theoretical and empirical aspects of unconventional monetary policies, such as asset purchases, quantitative and credit easing, forward guidance on the policy rate path, funding for lending schemes and related interventions.

The conference will last one day and a half, and will be articulated into several sections with presentations of selected academic papers, as well as one policy panel.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Chris Sims of Princeton University has confirmed his participation at the conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Attendance at the conference will be by invitation only. Interested presenters should submit the full paper with an abstract by November 1, 2013. Please email all submissions to hkimr@hkma.gov.hk, using the authors' names as the filenames of the papers, and enter "Paper submission for HKMA-FRBNY joint conference" as the email subject line. The Organizing Committee will select up to eight papers for presentation at the conference and notify the authors by end-December, 2013. The conference organizers will reimburse travel and lodging expenses of the selected academic speakers.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Hongyi Chen (HKMA), Dong He (HKMA), Paolo Pesenti (FRBNY) and Argia Sbordone (FRBNY).