Revised: June 30, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 19th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association
The Main Theme: Economic Policy for ‘Peace and Sustainability’
Date: November 14 (Sat.) - 15 (Sun.), 2020
Hosted by Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JapanThe Japan Economic Policy Association (JEPA) invites you the JEPA International Conference. Due to the outbreak of COVID19, the 19th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association (JEPA) will cancel its physical conference this year,and instead will be hosted as a fully online conference. For this year only, no registration fee is required. The conference provides theregular sessions and the theme-related plenary sessions, special sessions, regular sessions and other ones. It is intended foracademics and scholars as well as policy makers or officials in governments and international institutions working in the fields ofEconomics and other related sciences. The presenters at the conference may consider applying their papers to the International
Journal of Economic Policy Studies (IJEPS), an official refereed journal of the JEPA published by Springer. You are encouraged tosubmit papers for presentation at the conference. Please follow the instructions below.
(1) Important dates*Application for presentation deadline: June 30, 2020 extended until August 15, 2020
*Full paper submission deadline: July 31, 2020 extended until September 14, 2020
*Presentation video submission deadline: October 31, 2020
(2) Application and Participation Guidelines
The paper to present must neither has been published, accepted, nor has been submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted
presenters, discussants, chairs, guest speakers and members of the JEPA are eligible to participate in this Conference.
Graduate students are also welcomed to submit the paper.
(3) Categories of interest
Categories of interest of the conference are listed below. Choose first and second categories that would best fit your paper when
you apply for presentation.
1. Theory of Economic Policy
8. Welfare and Social Security Policy
2. Public Finance and Fiscal Policy
9. Regional, Urban and Transportation Policy
3. Monetary and Financial Policy
10. Resource and Environmental Policy
4. Growth, Development and Population Policy
11. International Economic Policy
5. Industrial Organization and Structural Policy
12. Law and Economics
6. Labor Economics and Policy
13. Comparative System Analysis
7. Public Economics and Public Choice
14. Other Applications in Economics, or Related Areas(4) Application for presentation
To apply for presentation, you should access the conference website and fill in the web application form to submit
your abstract and author information.
The deadline is extended until August 15, 2020.
The required information includes the paper title, the abstract, and author’s contact information. The abstract must be 450-500
words accompanied by three key words. The initial screening is made on the basis of the quality of the abstract.
Note that full paper can be submitted at the same time of the application. Simultaneous submission of full paper allows us
to skip the initial screening process and helps to provide a possible earlier notification of acceptance.
(5) Full paper and Presentation video submission
After notification of the result of first screening, applicants are requested to submit a full paper, based on which decisionof acceptance for presentation will be made.
The submitted full paper must be around 10 to 15 pages (roughly corresponds to around 6000 to 8000 words), including all
formulae, references, tables and figures, and be written by using our full paper template (MS Word file: the format of 80 lettersby 40 lines per page) that is available on the conference website.
Full paper submission deadline is extended until September 14, 2020. To submit, email to the conference secretariat shown
below and attach your full paper.
The deadline for presentation video submissions is October 31, 2020. Officially accepted presenters for our conference are
required to upload a pre-recorded video for presentation to YouTube unlisted / public link or the other downloadable links. (Please
do NOT send the video to our office through e-mail.) The video must be within 20 minutes in MP4 format. Please refer to the"basic instructions for making a presentation video" for details listed on our official website.
(6) Conference website and conference secretariat
JEPA 2020 Conference website: http://jepa.jpn.org/en/jepa2020/
JEPA 2020 Conference Secretariat email: jepa2020[at]jepa-hq.com (replace [at] with @)