IMF - OxCarre Conference: Call for papers

The Research Department of the International Monetary Fund and OxCarre
International Conference
'Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuations'
March 13-14, 2013
IMF Headquarters, Washington DC

This conference seeks draft papers or detailed proposals for theoretical and empirical papers analyzing fluctuations in international commodity prices. Topics might involve:

• Historical developments in international commodity markets
• Price co-movements between various commodities
• The global financial crisis and international commodity markets
• Consequences of commodity prices on unemployment and economic activity in commodity exporting countries
• Reactions of commodity exporters to the changing structure of global commodity markets
• Inventories and commodity prices
• The consequences of rising demand from China and India on commodity market developments
• The financialisation of commodity markets and the role of information in commodity markets 

The Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) will publish a Special Issue on Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuations with a selection of the papers presented at the conference.The guest editors invite detailed proposals and preferably draft research papers.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to Mr. Hites Ahir at HAhir@imf.org and Ms. Celia Kingham at celia.kingham@economics.ox.ac.uk no later than November 9, 2012. The guest editors will make the final selection of papers to be included in the Conference. Authors will be notified by November 18, 2012 if their paper has been selected.

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