APEA is happy to introduce its twelfth annual conference: It will be held in Kolkata, India on July 13-15, 2016 and will be hosted by International Management Institute Kolkata, India. Economists are invited to submit papers for presentation consideration in the conference. Empirical or theoretical papers in all economic fields, with or without direct relevance to the Asia-Pacific economies, are welcome.

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Previous eleven APEA conferences were held at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo on July 30-31, 2005, the University of Washington, Seattle on July 29-30, 2006, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong on July 25-26, 2007, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China on December 13-14, 2008, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA on June 27-28, 2009, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong on July 8-9, 2010, Pusan National University, Korea on June 24-25, 2011, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on June 28-29, 2012, Osaka University, Japan on July 28-29, 2013, Thammasat University, Thailand on July 11-12, 2014, and National Taiwan University, Taiwan on July 8-10, 2015. Please go to the home pages of these conferences for the programs and the papers presented.

The International Management Institute (IMI) was India's first corporate sponsored business school and was established in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD, Lausanne). With campuses in New Delhi, Kolkata and Bhubaneswar, it is among the leading Business Schools in India. The IMI Kolkata campus is centrally located in the city and equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructural, academic and residential facilities. Click here for more information about the institute.

Submission Economists are invited to submit papers for presentation in the conference. Papers in all economics fields, either theoretical or empirical, and whether or not directly related to the Asia-Pacific economies, are welcome. A few sessions for graduate students in doctoral programs are planned. The deadline for submitting a paper (or an extended abstract with at least 300 words) is December 31, 2015. Please send your submission to <submit@apeaweb.org>. Please include in your submission the following information of you and all other co-authors (if any): name, e-mail address, affiliation, academic rank (or graduate student), JEL codes (of economic fields of interest), and mailing address. Please also include the JEL codes of your paper. Organizing a Session Economists are also welcome to organize sessions in the conference. Each session will last for 2 hours, consisting of • a chair person (not necessarily the organizer, but preferably not one of the presenters or discussants); • three to five papers around a common theme; • three to five discussants (If help is needed to identify discussants, please contact us.). Please submit a proposal by January 31, 2016. The proposal should include the title of each session, and the names, affiliations, academic ranks, and e-mail addresses of all presenters, discussants, the organizer, and the chair. The proposal should be sent to <submit@apeaweb.org>.