Economic Policies in the Context of the Socio-Ecological Transition

Climate change (CC) is imposing a great challenge to humanity, both in the economic and social dimensions. Regarding the economic dimension, climate change increases physical risks on economic activities, due to the possible damage to companies’ capital assets, and transition risks, due to the effects that the green transition may impose on brown activities. These risks are unequally distributed around the world since most developing countries depend on primary resource extraction, which is directly affected by them. Moreover, regarding the social dimension, climate change is imposing many risks, as it affects migration paths, increases vector-borne disease areas, worsens health conditions, and affects food and water sovereignty, among others. These risks have several consequences on the economic configurations of multiple countries. Particularly, many developing countries depend on foreign currency income from agriculture and fishing activities to stabilize the exchange rate. Additionally, the increase in global temperature may affect labor productivity due to the decrease in working hours that may arise from it. In this context, it becomes relevant to assess how the economic configuration of different economies is being transformed by climate change and how economic policies should evolve to cope with it.

The Economic Development and Keynesian Economics working groups would like to invite you to participate in a workshop that assesses the issues mentioned in the previous paragraph. Novel contributions to general economic theory and applied studies that may be a starting point for future studies in these fields are also welcome. A list of the topics of interest of this workshop are listed below:

• Developing Economics in the context of the socio-ecological transition
• Macroeconomics in the context of open economies and growth regimes.
• Climate Change effects interconnections with financial and macroeconomic setups.
• Industrial Policy, International Trade and Global Value Chains.

The workshop,  co-organized with the Institute for International Political Economy (IPE) Berlin, will take place at the Schöneberg Campus of the Berlin School of Economics and Law on July 25th and 26th. In this activity, young scholars are expected to present their research, and some of them will receive feedback from the following senior researchers according to their research topic:

• Giorgos Galanis (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
• Robert A. Blecker (American University, US)

The deadline for abstract submission (300-750 words) will be June 1st and the results will be announced by mid-June. Full papers will be required by July 5th. Limited travel and accommodation stipends will be provided for selected young scholars, based on the quality and quantity of the contributions. If you are interested in this funding, please indicate it in the application form.

For further information please contact: [email protected]