The Review of Economic Analysis is now available

The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of its open access journal

REA is now available at  http://www.rofea.org/

Five papers written by prominent economists are appearing in its first issue:

• Michael B. Devereux: Much Appreciated? The Rise of the Canadian Dollar, 2002-2008

• Russell Davidson: Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance: Some Further Results

• David Laidler: Financial Stability, Monetarism and the Wicksell Connection

• Luca Lambertini: Optimal Product Proliferation in Monopoly: A Dynamic Analysis

• Arnold Zellner: S. James Press and Bayesian Analysis 

REA will be appearing quarterly; the second issue is in preparation.

Papers published in open access journals are read and cited more often than those published in traditional, fee-based journals.

Please consider Review of Economic Analysis as an avenue for your work.

Forthcoming Events

Conference: The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF) "The Canadian's Economy 15 Golden Years in the Global Context"

June 10-13, 2010, Rimini, Italy

RCEF (formerly  “Small Open Economies in a Globalized World” - SOEGW) conference is a biennial international meeting assembling a group of leading economists to present and discuss their work at the cutting edge of economic research. The previous two editions, were held in Rimini (Italy) in 2006 (SOEGW: www2.dse.unibo.it/soegw/ and in Waterloo (Canada) in 2008 SOEGW II: www.soegw.org) and focused on issues concerning small open economies in the fast-changing globalized world. 

The 2010 conference will focus on lessons learned from the Canadian economic performance and management over the last fifteen years and its response to the recent global crisis. Thus, drawing from the Canadian experience of sustained long-run growth and an effective response to a large shock, the conference will deal with general issues in growth and business cycles analysis, international trade, international finance, monetary and fiscal policies, public economics, public finance, finance and banking, general equilibrium, game theory, economic geography, regional development, economics of tourism, environmental economics, industrial organization, labour economics, health economics, econometrics and quantitative methods.

Plenary Speakers: 

  • Costas Azariadis (Washington University, St. Louis)
  • Paul Baudry (University of British Columbia and Oxford University)
  • Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia and Rimin Centre for Economic Analysis
  • Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
  • Arnold Zellner (University of Chicago and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)

Conference: European Integration: Past, Present and Future 

April 30-May 1, 2010, Wilfrid Laurier University

Post – war European integration started 60 years ago with the establishment of the Council of Europe. Forty years later the Berlin Wall fell and Europe is rapidly becoming ‘whole’ again. Great strides are made in the economic and political spheres, in particular through the expansion of the European Union (EU) . However, labour mobility is still somewhat constrained, as are social, political and defence integration efforts. The interdisciplinary conference will look at the development of European integration and its future, focusing on economic, regional and migration issues.

The conference is organized by RCEA-Canada, The International Migration Research Centre, WLU and Viessmann European Research Centre. Financial support has been provided by Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Plenary Speakers: 

  • Joshua Aizenman (Presidential Professor of Economics, University of California - Santa Cruz)
  • Giovanni Di Girolamo (Deputy Head of Delegation and First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Commission to Canada)
  • Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)

Seminar: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California-Berkeley and NBER: The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love (joint with Enrique G. Mendoza and Linda L. Tesar)

co-organized with the Departments of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the University of Waterloo, January 29, 2010

Conferment of an Honorary Degree in Economics and Market Policy to Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

January 22, 2010, University of Bologna,  11.00 am, Sala dell’Arengo, Piazza Cavour, Rimini, Italy

Conferment will be followed by a workshop in the honour of Professor Sir Partha S. Dasgupta: Advanced Topics in Economics: Sustainable Development and the Natural Environment