The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge, are organizing the 5th International Conference “Developments in Economic Theory and Policy”. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), in July 10-11, 2008.
 
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, papers about the following topics are especially welcome:
 –        New Consensus in Macroeconomics
–         Spatial Economics
–         European Convergence
–         Policy/Path Dependence and Macroeconomics
 
Special Sessions with Invited Speakers will be organized about these four topics
 
Suggestions for ‘Organized Sessions’ are encouraged. An Organized Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete package. Session organizers must provide the following information:
–         Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
–         Titles of the papers, name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)
–         Contact information for each participant (name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address).
 
People willing to organize a session on a specific topic who want to contact with other people interested in presenting a paper in that session can get in touch with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) submitting the following data:
–       Organizer’s name and affiliation
–       Title of the proposed sessions and JEL classification
–       E-mail address
This information will be published in the conference website. People interested will be able to contact with the session’s proposer to organize the session.
 
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is 30th May 2008.
 
For additional information, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) or visit the website aquí