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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The
submission deadline for Call for Papers for the 8th SUERF/UniCredit
Foundation Research Prize
has been extended. The new deadline is 30 November 2020.
Savings behaviour in crisis and post-crisis times
Motivation
The Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 crisis have, among many other things, also affected savings
behaviour. Changes involve both aggregate household savings ratios, individual propensity to consume and to save, as well as portfolio choice. While the post-GFC and COVID-induced very low interest rates have likely reduced income motives for saving, crises
put precautionary savings into the foreground. In the COVID-19 crisis, new attention was directed to savings motives, given the impossibility to consume, resulting in “forced savings”. The COVID-19 crisis also raises the question whether consumption and household
savings behaviour will change more permanently, and beyond the time of the constraints imposed by the pandemic and related containment measures. Such changes would have important permanent consequences on aggregate demand, structural employment/unemployment,
potential growth, the sectoral composition of output, the natural rate of interest and, as a result, the environment in which fiscal and monetary policies act.
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CfP – 8th SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize
Formal Requirements and Procedure for Submissions
The SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize is open to authors and co-authors who are
citizens or residents/students in the EEA, Switzerland, and other countries
in which UniCredit is present (in addition to EEA countries, the latter also include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Serbia) and
born after 30 September 1980. Prizes of EUR 2,500 gross will be awarded to up to
two outstanding papers on topics related to the call for papers. The winning authors agree to present their papers at a SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Conference to be held in Milan (or in a webinar/e-conference) in February 2021. Winning authors agree to
provide a non-technical 5-10 page policy-oriented summary of their research findings for publication as a SUERF Policy Note.
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Paper submission deadline:
extended to 30 November 2020.
Applications should be submitted through the online submission form on the
UniCredit Foundation website.
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We invite you to circulate this information to your colleagues, students, doctoral candidates
and other interested parties.
Sincerely,
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Ernest Gnan
Secretary General
SUERF
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Annalisa Aleati
Scientific Director
UniCredit Foundation
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