The Center for Pacific Basin Studies at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pleased to announce its 2026 Pacific Basin Research Conference, to be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on Friday, November 20, 2026.
We invite submissions of research papers focused on both theoretical and empirical topics in open-economy macroeconomics, international trade, and international finance with relevance to economic and policy issues facing the Pacific Region.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Inflation drivers
- Macroeconomic and distributional effects of global supply chain disruptions
- Spillovers of U.S. policies to Asia and emerging markets
- International aspects of fiscal policy and monetary policy
- The international role of the dollar
- Tariffs/deglobalization and their economic impacts
- Capital flows and capital account policy
- Exchange rate dynamics
- Growth prospects in China
- Demographic issues in Asia and the global economy
Submission procedures
Please e-mail a PDF version of your paper to sf.er.pacific.basin@sf.frb.org. Completed papers receive priority. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by August 31. The conference provides limited funding for economy-class travel and up to two nights of hotel accommodation for the presenting authors and discussants. The Pacific Basin Research Conference was last held in 2024 (see the agenda).
For any inquiries, please contact: sf.er.pacific.basin@sf.frb.org
Organizers: Zheng Liu, Fernanda Nechio
Scientific Committee: Thuy-Lan Nguyen, Timo Reinelt, Sanjay Singh, Johannes Wieland