CALL FOR PAPERS Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuations

March 20—21, 2013, Washington, D.C.

International Conference organized by the IMF’s Research Department and the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at Oxford University.
The Research Department of the International Monetary Fund and the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at Oxford University will hold an international conference on Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuations at the IMF’s headquarters in Washington DC on March 20—21, 2013.

This conference seeks draft papers or detailed proposals for theoretical and empirical papers analyzing fluctuations in international commodity prices.

Topics might involve:

        • Historical developments in international commodity markets
        • Price co-movements between various commodities
        • The global financial crisis and international commodity markets
        • Consequences of commodity prices on unemployment and economic activity in commodity exporting countries
        • Reactions of commodity exporters to the changing structure of global commodity markets
        • Inventories and commodity prices
        • The consequences of rising demand from China and India on commodity market developments
        • The financialisation of commodity markets and the role of information in commodity markets.

The Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF) will publish a Special Issue on Understanding International Commodity Price Fluctuationswith a selection of the papers presented at the conference. The guest editors invite detailed proposals and preferably draft research papers. Proposals should be submitted electronically to Hites Ahir and Celia Kingham no later thanNovember 9, 2012.

The guest editors will make the final selection of papers to be included in the Conference. Authors will be notified by November 18, 2012 if their paper has been selected.