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Guest Editors: John Hassler (IIES) and Per Krusell (IIES)

Submission deadline: 15 March 2020

The European Commission recently unveiled an ambitious European Green Deal to make the European economy “climate neutral” by 2050. Rigorous academic debate and new ideas are needed to engage with and guide policymakers in this process.

As Europe’s premier policy journal, Economic Policy is inviting contributions to a special issue on “The Economics of Climate Change”. Selected papers will be presented at the Economic Policy Panel meeting in the fall of 2020 in a high profile event in Frankfurt.

We are looking for theoretical and empirical contributions for this special issue that combine rigorous research with distinct policy messages. We particularly invite submissions that address the following questions:
 – the economics of reducing CO2 emissions and the paths to a carbon neutral economy
 – the regional, distributional and sectoral impact of carbon pricing and emission reduction policies
 – the role of complementary public infrastructure investment to manage the transition, and its financing
 – the role of central banks and green finance projects in supporting the emission reduction
 – the implications for trade and trade policy, migration, and globalization

If you are interested in contributing, please submit a paper by 15 March 2020 using our online submission system https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ecpol. Papers will be sent to referees and you will receive an editorial decision with detailed comments no later than 30 June 2020. In the positive case, a revised draft of your contribution will be due by 1 September 2020.

In the case of a positive decision, you will be invited to present your paper at the October 2020 Panel Meeting, where it will be discussed by two panelists and by the audience. After the panel, you will have time for a final set of revisions based on the panel discussion, which will be published together with the papers in a special issue of the journal.

Please do forward on this message to other scholars in the field.

John Hassler and Per Krusell (Guest Editors)
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Ghazala Azmat, Andrea Ichino, Tommaso Monacelli, and Moritz Schularick (Managing Editors)