Globalisation, Inequality and
Well-Being

Call for Papers

On November 08-09, 2002, CESifo will organise an international conference in Munich on Globalisation, Inequality and Well-Being, which will mark the launch of a new journal, CESifo Economic Studies, to replace the old ifo Studien in 2003. The conference will focus on inequality both among countries (developed, developing and third world countries) and within countries. It is also intended to promote discussion of absolute levels of well-being and poverty as well as relative measures of inequality.

We are interested in both empirical and theoretical investigation of issues such as:

• Does globalisation promote inequality?
• Does it alleviate poverty in developing countries or in developed countries?·
• The impact of globalisation on the effectiveness of redistributive taxes and similar fiscal policies.
• The effects of foreign direct investments on growth, poverty and inequality in developing countries.
• The political economy of pro and anti globalisation coalitions.

The above list is by no means intended to be exhaustive but rather illustrative and suggestive.

Keynote lectures will be given -- among others -- by Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford), Harold James (Princeton) and Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard).

The aim of the conference is to make academic research on Globalisation, Inequality and Well-Being accessible both to policy makers and economists working in other research areas. Therefore, we encourage submission of papers presenting recent advances at the research frontier in an accessible style.

People interested in presenting papers at the conference should submit abstract or preferably first drafts electronically no later than May 15th, 2002 to economic.studies@cesifo.de

Selected papers will be published later after a refereeing process in CESifo Economic Studies.

CESifo will provide accommodation and will reimburse economy travel costs for all participants with accepted papers or other active roles in the conference. Other CESifo network members are invited to participate, but are expected to provide their own funding for travel and accommodation.

Further questions regarding the organisation and scientific content of the conference should be addressed to the conference organisers:

Gerhard Illing [gerhard.illing@lrz.uni-muenchen.de]
Efraim Sadka [sadka@post.tau.ac.il]

About CESifo Economic Studies
With the increasing specialisation in the profession, there is an urgent need for building bridges between different areas in economics. The economic research papers published in academic journals are becoming increasingly less accessible to those not working in the same field. CESifo Economic Studies aims to bridge the gap between specialised research in economics and the interest of non-specialists. The journal will combine theory and empirical research with a strong emphasis on policy issues.

CESifo Economic Studies will publish contributed papers by top-level academic economists which are written in a style accessible to all economists regardless of their specialisation. The primary focus of the journal is on policy problems, but it will also publish high quality, non-technical articles of general interest to economists.

CESifo Economic Studies will continue and replace ifo Studien, the academic journal of the Ifo Institute. From 2003 we will publish only in English, aiming at a much wider readership. CESifo Economic Studies will be published quarterly. All articles appearing in the journal will be thoroughly refereed. The journal will be circulated to a wide audience including governments, businesses, and policy-makers as well as academics and students. Subscribers to ifo Studien will automatically receive CESifo Economic Studies.