Call for Papers
The 23rd International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association
The Main Theme: Regional Revitalization and Well-being
Date: December 7(Sat.: on-site) - 8(Sun.: online), 2024.
Place: Chiba Campus, Shukutoku University, 200 Daiganji-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba 260-8701 JAPAN
Host University: Shukutoku University
The Japan Economic Policy Association (JEPA) invites you to the 23rd JEPA International Conference. The conference will feature
regular sessions, theme-related plenary sessions, and more. This year, the conference will be held both on-site (December 7) andonline via Zoom (December 8). The event is relevant for academics, scholars, policymakers, and officials from governments andinternational institutions working in the fields of economics and related sciences. Presenters at the conference are encouraged toconsider submitting their papers to the International Journal of Economic Policy Studies (IJEPS), the official refereed journal ofJEPA published by Springer. We invite you to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Please follow the instructions
below.
1. Important Dates• Application for presentation and Full paper Submission deadline: August 31, 2024
2. Application and Participation Guidelines
JEPA does not accept papers that have already been published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted
presenters, discussants, chairs, guest speakers, and JEPA members are eligible to participate in the conference. Graduate students
are also welcome to submit their papers. Participants are required to pay the registration fee by credit card (VISA, MasterCard,JCB, American Express, or Diners Club). Information regarding the registration fee is available on the conference website.
3. Categories of Interest
The categories of interest for the conference are listed below. When applying for a presentation, please select the first and second
categories that best fit your paper.
1. Theory of Public Policy
8. Welfare & Social Security Policy
2. Public Finance & Fiscal Policy
9. Regional, Urban & Transportation policy
3. Monetary & Financial Policy
10. Resource & Environmental Policy
4. Growth, Development & Population Policy
11. International Economic Policy
5. Industrial Organization & Structural Policy
12. Law and Economics
6. Labor Economics and Policy
13. Comparative System Analysis
7. Public Economics & Public Choice
14. Other Applications in Economics
4. Application for Presentation• To apply for a presentation, you must both (i) access the conference website and fill in the application form (paper title,abstract, keywords, contact details, category of interest, choice of on-site or online presentation) and (ii) submit both a cover
page file and a full paper file in PDF format.
• Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.
• Please enter three keywords for your application.
• The cover page template (docx format) can be downloaded from the JEPA website.
• Full papers can be in any format. However, submitted full papers will be assessed and screened by the program committee
based on the assessment criteria described in the Assessment Guideline below, and only papers that have passed theassessment will be permitted to be presented.
• Each individual may submit only one paper and appear in the program as an author or a co-author within three times.
• The deadline for applications is 31 August 2024.
5. Assessment Guideline• Submitted papers are assessed and screened by the program committee from the following criteria[1] Is there any originality or novelty in this paper?
[2] Does it apply economics or related sciences to policy research?
[3] Does it have a clear academic background as well as policy background?
[4] Are the research objectives or research questions clear?
[5] Do the research results achieve the research objectives? Or do the research results provide answers to the researchquestions?
[6] Does it have academic and policy significance?
[7] Is it an unpublished paper?
[8] Is it worth reporting in JEPA?
• Only papers that meet the above criteria can be presented in JEPA 2024.
• The Program Committee will notify the result to the applicants after assessing her/his submitted paper and deciding if it isworth for presentation or not.
• A presenter whose paper is accepted will be expected to play the role of a discussant and/or a session chair.
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Conference Website and Conference Secretariat••JEPA 2024 Conference website: http://jepa.jpn.org/en/jepa2024/
JEPA 2024 Conference Secretariat email: desk[at]jepa.jpn.org (replace [at] with @)