INFER 2021, 23rd Annual
Conference
ISEG, September 8-10, 2021,
Lisbon, Portugal
Organized by
INFER – International Network for Economic Research,
UECE – Research Unit on Complexity and Economics
REM – Research in Economics and Mathematics,
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management,
Universidade de Lisboa
Deadline
for paper submission: June 14, 2021
Conference
Objectives
The INFER Annual Conference is the main annual event of the
International Network for Economic Research. The INFER Annual Conference
provides a great opportunity for members and non-members of INFER alike to
exchange ideas and to discuss results from recent economic research.
Conference
Topics
The
INFER Annual Conference is open to contributions from all areas of economic
research. However, we especially encourage submissions related to the following
topics:
·
Agricultural and Agri-tech
economics
·
Banking and Finance
·
Bounded Rationality in Economics and
Finance
·
Commodities and Financial Markets
·
Development Economics
·
Economic Asymmetries
·
Economic History and History of Economic
Thought
·
Emerging
Market Economies and Globalization
·
Entrepreneurship
·
Environmental
Economics
·
Experimental
Economics
·
Financial and Debt Crisis
·
Financial Economics and Asset Pricing
·
Fiscal Policy and Public Finance
·
Growth and Business Cycles
·
Health and Public Policy
·
Housing Economics
·
Industrial
Economics and Innovation
·
Industrial
Organisation
·
International Economics and Trade
·
Labour Economics
·
Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy
·
Public Economics, Regulation and
Competition Analysis
·
Public policy and Economic
inequality
·
Regional Economics and Economic Geography
·
Sport Economics
and Olympic Games
·
Urban
and Regional Economics
·
Wine Economics
Keynote
Speakers
Carlo
Favero (Bocconi University; CEPR)
Volker Vieland (Institute for Monetary and
Financial Stability, Goethe
University Frankfurt)
Marco Vivarelli (Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore)
Program
Please
access the program here.
Conference photos in here.
Participants
The Annual Conference is open to economists, including both young and experienced
researchers, post-doctoral students and professionals from business,
government, and nongovernmental institutions. Participants are also encouraged
to organize special sessions (with the guidance of the Scientific Committee).
Special
Issue
There will be a World
Economy special
issue on New Challenges for Economic and Financial Integration,
collecting selected excellent papers presented at the INFER Annual Conference
this year.
Organization
The 2021 Annual Conference is jointly organized by INFER (International
Network for Economic Research) and REM (Research in Economics and Mathematics),
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the Universidade de Lisboa.
INFER is a non-profit international scientific
organization that stimulates research and research networking in all fields of
economics through international workshops and conferences.
Website: https://www.infer-research.eu
REM is a research consortium of ISEG, School of
Economics and Management of the Universidade de Lisboa, founded in 2017,
aggregating two research centers: CEMAPRE and UECE. REM produces theoretical
and applied research, mainly in Economics and in Mathematics, and also in
inter-disciplinary areas.
Website: https://rem.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt
ISEG is one of the top prestigious and
experienced business and economics schools based in Portugal, and one of the three
top-ranked providers in these fields of education at undergraduate, graduate
and executive training levels. Website: https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/aquila/instituicao/ISEG/
Submission
of Papers
Only full papers may be submitted for the INFER Annual Conference (this
applies to both general sessions and special sessions). Papers must be in
English and must include a cover page with the following information:
·
An abstract of up to 500 words, with JEL
classification and no more than 5 keywords
·
Authors’ full name and affiliation
·
Contact details for the corresponding
author, such as address, phone and e-mail
Papers should be submitted
electronically as pdf-files to the Annual Conference organizers via Conference
Maker at the following website:
https://editorialexpress.com/conference/INFER2021
Deadline
for paper submission: June 14, 2021.
Authors are allowed to submit more than one paper. All
submitted papers will be peer reviewed according to a quality and fast referee
process. Authors will be notified whether their paper is accepted for
presentation at the conference not later than June 30, 2021.
Paper presenters are expected to discuss one other
paper during the conference. The discussant assignments will be made by the
conference organizers at a later stage. As the conference intends to strengthen
the INFER network, participation is welcome even without paper contribution.
Conference fees
Onsite
event – per person
240 EUR for INFER
members
300 EUR for non-INFER
members
Online
(presenting and non-presenting)
0 EUR for INFER members
50 EUR for non-INFER members
Special
Sessions
The conference will host a number of special sessions
focusing on specific topics. These sessions may be organized by INFER scholars
as well as by other conference attendees who send their proposals to the
Organizing Committee. Special sessions will have discussants distributed among
presenters of the same session.
The deadline for the Special Sessions submission: May 31,
2021.
Details on these special sessions (JEL codes, submission
procedure, etc.) are available on the conference website:
INFER Prizes
and Awards
In order to stimulate research activities by INFER
members, at the INFER Annual Conference there are three prizes and awards to
presenters (500 euros each):
·
Young Economist Award, to researchers
younger than 32 years.
·
INFER Research Prize, to the best paper.
·
INFER Policy Research Award, to the best
policy paper.
The procedure for applying to these prizes
and awards will be specified in due course at the website of the INFER Annual
Conference:
Publication
Opportunities
The conference offers publication
opportunities to the authors of research papers. In particular, the authors of
high quality research papers will be invited to submit them to special issues.
The procedure for submitting the papers to
these journals will be specified in due course.
Papers presented at the workshop are
welcome at the INFER WP Series.
Papers presented at the workshop are also
welcome to be included at REM WP Series (https://rem.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/wps/). Please send them after the workshop to
Registration
and Registration Fee
Registration and payment until August 5,
2021.
The registration fee will be, as usual for
the INFER Annual Conference, in the range of 300 euros.
The registration fee includes all lunches,
drinks, social events and the Conference Dinner. It does not include travel and
accommodation expenses. All participants to the conference have to register.
Please note that paper submission is not regarded as a registration.
Please register and pay the registration
fee on the INFER website (www.infer-research.eu). Payment can be done via
PayPal on the website. Note that you can use the same website to become an
INFER member. You will receive a confirmation e-mail. (a few days after your
registration). Alternatively, payment can be done by bank transfer (details
will be listed on the conference website). If you have any questions, please
contact Dr. Christian
Oberst (treasurer@infer.info).
Important
Dates
·
Deadline for paper submission: May 31,
2021
·
Deadline for notification of paper
acceptance: June 30, 2021
·
Deadline for registration and payment: July
31, 2021
·
Conference: September 8-10, 2021
Scientific
Committee
Antonio Afonso (Univ of Lisbon, Portugal), Christian
A. Oberst (German Economic Institute, Cologne, Germany), Pedro André Cerqueira
(Univ of Coimbra, Portugal), Josep-Maria Arauzo Carod (Universitat Rovira I
Virgili, Spain), Dimitrios Asteriou (Oxford Brookes University, UK),
Florina-Cristina Badarau (Univ Bordeaux, France), Sophie Brana (Univ Bordeaux, France),
Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (Univ of Göttingen, Germany), Usha Nair (Georgia
University, USA), Christian Richter (Business School of Economics at Coventry
University in Egypt); Helena Sanz-Morales (Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium), Francisco Serranito (Univ Paris 13, France), Elias Soukiazis (Univ of
Coimbra, Portugal), Andrea Stoian (The Bucharest University of Economic
Studies, Romania), Michael Stierle (European Commission, Belgium),Kiril Tochkov
(Christian University of Texas, USA), Camelia Turcu (Univ Orleans, France), Jan
Van Hove (KU Leuven, Belgium), Cândida Ferreira (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), João
Jalles (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), José Alves (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), José Carlos Coelho (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL),
Paulo Bstos (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), Peter Claeys (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel); Piotr Stanek (Cracow
University of Economics), Isabel Proença (CEMAPRE; REM; ISEG/UL),
Patrícia Melo (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), Joana Pais (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), Sandra
Maximiano (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), Luis Costa (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL), Immaculada
Martinez-Zarzoso (Gottingen University), Alexandro Kontonikas (Essex Business School), Hubert Kempf (École Normale
Supérieure Paris-Saclay).
Local
Organization Committee
António Afonso, Chair
(UECE; REM; ISEG/UL): aafonso@iseg.ulisboa.pt
Cândida Ferreira (UECE;
REM; ISEG/UL): candidaf@iseg.ulisboa.pt
João Jalles (UECE; REM;
ISEG/UL): jjalles@iseg.ulisboa.pt
José Alves (UECE; REM;
ISEG/UL): jalves@iseg.ulisboa.pt
José Carlos
Coelho (UECE; REM; ISEG/UL): jcarlosmcoelho@phd.iseg.ulisboa.pt
Josep-Maria
Arauzo Carod (Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain), josepmaria.arauzo@urv.cat
Camelia
Turcu (INFER, University of Orléans): info@infer.com or camelia.turcu@univ-orleans.fr
Christian
Oberst (INFER; German Economic Institute): treasurer@infer.info or oberst@iwkoeln.de
Secretariat:
Sandra Araújo (UECE). uece@iseg.ulisboa.pt
Contact Information
Address:
UECE, REM, ISEG/UL
Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, 1249-078 Lisboa, Portugal
phone: (+351) 213 925 912
fax: (+351) 213 971 196
Location and travel
The
workshop takes place at the ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and
Management, Rua Miguel Lupi, 20, 1249-078 Lisboa, Portugal
The
Conference will be held at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao da
Universidade de Lisboa. The main address is Rua do Quelhas, 6, 1200-781 Lisbon
(see maps below).
All
rooms are located in the Quelhas 6 building, also known as the Convento das
Inglesinhas, a 17th century building overlooking the rest of the campus [lat.
N38o42’35.734”, long. W9o09’27.184”].
Participants
without mobility problems are advised to use the main entrance at Rua das
Francesinhas [lat. N38o42’37.588”, long. W9o09’17.129”], by the Francesinhas 2
building, and climb the outdoor stairs, on the left-hand side, to Quelhas 6.
Participants with mobility problems may use either the car-park entrance at Rua
Miguel Lupi [lat. N38o42’39.229”, long. W9o09’21.672”] or the one at Rua do
Quelhas [lat. N38o42’34.607”, long. W9o09’20.671”].
Accommodation
Participants are
responsible for their travel and accommodation arrangements. The enrolment fee
does not cover accommodation. Please make your reservations as soon as
possible. A complete list
of hotels can
be found at
Lisbon Official Tourism Website: https://www.visitlisboa.com/
Information on the health status requirements to enter Portugal: https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/covid-19-measures-implemented-portugal
Hotel suggestions:
Besides a
vast array of opportunities on AirBnB, and a large number of hostels, the following is a list of hotels conference
participants have used in the past. The closest areas to the conference site
are Santos, Estrela, Lapa, Príncipe Real, Chiado, Bairro Alto, and Cais do
Sodré.
York House Hotel Lisboa http://www.yorkhouselisboa.com/en
As Janelas Verdes http://www.asjanelasverdes.com/en/
Lisbon Sao Bento Hotel http://www.lisbonsaobentohotel.pt/EN/hotel.html
Memmo Príncipe Real http://www.memmohotels.com/principereal/memmo-principe-real
Bairro Alto Hotel http://www.bairroaltohotel.com/en/
Hotel da Estrela http://www.hoteldaestrela.com/hotel-da-estrela
Casa de São Mamede http://www.casadesaomamede.pt
Hotel Dom Carlos (Park or Liberty) http://www.domcarloshoteis.com/domcarloshoteis/Dom-Carlos-Hotels
How to get from the Airport to the City
Lisbon's
main airport is 10 km (6 mi) from the conference venue at ISEG - Lisbon School
of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa.
Taxis
are the easiest way to get into the city center and are available outside the
airport. The journey to city center takes about 20 minutes. All of the taxis
have digital meters and must run them. The cost of getting from the airport to
the (city center) is about 15 euros daytime. Most taxis do not accept credit
cards. It is not necessary to tip taxi drivers. You can queue for taxis outside
the arrivals exit. Transportation with Uber,
Bolt and Free Now are also available in the city.
You
may alternatively take the Metro (subway). It may be quicker and will certainly
be cheaper. The Airport station is on the red line, taking you to Saldanha
station in just 15 minutes and to the city center Baixa-Chiado station (a
change of line is needed) in about 25 minutes. You can buy the one-way ticket
for 1.50 euros or the daily pass for 6 euros, allowing you to use the Metro,
buses, trams, funiculars, elevator and trains). Both types of ticket are issued
on rechargeable cards so do not throw them away.
Lisbon
Metro website: http://metro.transporteslisboa.pt/
The Metro stations closest to ISEG
are either Rato (yellow line) or Cais do Sodré (green line). Then, you may
prefer a nice 20 minute walk or to catch a bus. At Rato you have either 706
(heading towards Cais do Sodré) or 727 and at Cais do Sodré you have 706 (heading
towards Est. Sta. Apolónia). In any case, you should leave the bus at the
Assembleia da República (the Parliament) stop.
Lisbon Carris (bus, tram,
funiculars and elevator)
website: http://carris.transporteslisboa.pt/
The Santos train station, on the
Lisbon-Cascais suburban line, is only a 10 minute walking away from ISEG. The
706 bus also stops there on its way from Cais do Sodré to Assembleia da
República.
Tips on Travel
Visa: Non EU citizens and citizens from countries without VISA waive must
require a VISA to come to Lisbon.
Money: The currency used in Portugal is Euro. Portugal has an extensive
network of ATM machines and most restaurants, hotels, shops and museums accept
credit cards.
Electricity: The electrical current in Portugal is 220 volts, 50 cycles alternating
current (AC); wall outlets take Continental-type plugs round prongs.
About
UECE
UECE – Research Unit on Complexity
and Economics, it is the main economics research centre of ISEG, and a part of
the consortium REM – Research in Economics and Mathematics. UECE produces
research, both theoretical and applied, mainly in economics, but also in the
sciences of complexity and in inter-disciplinary areas.
The main UECE goals are:
·
Promoting research on
dynamical systems and on complexity, with an emphasis on economic applications,
and also on other economic fields, such as game theory and macroeconomics;
·
Developing new
statistical methods applied to economics;
·
Studying the consequences
of dynamic, non-linear and complex systems in what concerns economic analysis
and forecasting;
·
Organizing seminars,
conferences and other events to disseminate scientific results;
·
Participating in international
research networks and promoting participation of researchers in international
congresses and conferences;
Promoting and
publishing papers, working papers and other documents to stimulate research in
these recent economic theory areas.
About
ISEG
Founded
in 1911, ISEG is a research-oriented institution, whose mission is to instruct
capable business and economics students and to train the most skilled managers
and mathematicians, providing each with cutting edge knowledge in the
corresponding areas of interest. ISEG is one of the top prestigious and
experienced business and economics schools based in Portugal, one of the three
top-ranked providers in these fields of education at undergraduate, graduate
and executive training levels.
ISEG
distinguishes itself from its competition through a clear focus on top quality
research and teaching, and through an intense relationship with the most
important public and private Portuguese Institutions and Corporations as well
as with the development of long-term relationships between ISEG and its alumni.
Its facilities were totally renovated recently providing a top-quality and
stimulating academic environment to the personal and professional development
of future managers and economists.
ISEG is located in the city centre just next to the Portuguese
Parliament and facing the Tejo river. It is also in walking distance of The
National Museum of Ancient Art, the bearer of
the most important collection of arts in Portugal.
About
Lisbon
Lisbon is the
capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the district of
Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipality has a population of
564,477 in 84.8 km2, while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8
million inhabitants. Due to its economic output, standard of living, and market
size, the Grande
Lisboa (Greater
Lisbon) subregion is considered the second most important financial and
economic center of the Iberian Peninsula. The Lisbon region is the wealthiest
region in Portugal and it is well above the European Union's GDP per capita
average – it produces 45% of the Portuguese GDP. It is also the political
center of the country, as seat of government and residence of the Head of
State.
Lisbon was under
Roman rule from 205 BC, when it was already a 1000 year old town. Julius Caesar
made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, adding to the name Olissipo. Ruled
by a series of Germanic tribes from the 5th century, it was captured by Moors
in the 8th century. In 1147, the Crusaders under Afonso Henriques reconquered
the city for the Christians and since then it has been a major political,
economic and cultural center of Portugal. Unlike most capital cities, Lisbon's
status as the capital of Portugal has never been granted or confirmed officially
– by statute or in written form. Its position as the capital has formed through
constitutional convention, making its position as de facto capital a part of
the Constitution of Portugal.
Lisbon hosts two
agencies of the European Union, namely, the European Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the European Maritime Safety Agency
(EMSA). The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), is also
headquartered in Lisbon.
The municipal holiday
is June 13, St. Anthony's Day.