The OECD NAEC Innovation LAB will host a conference on “New Analytical Tools & Techniques for Economic Policymaking” on 15-16 April in Paris. This should be a great forum for policy/new ideas to connect, as well as bringing together a wide range of research and policy communities.

The conference will focus on research that addresses policy challenges using new approaches and data that can provide a more realistic way of thinking about the world as it really is and help policymakers to better understand and address a range of policy challenges. New tools and methods can explore new dimensions of policy issues including policy interactions, complex systems, non-rational behaviour, multi-dimensional outcomes, network phenomena, non-linear responses, distributional impacts and geospatial effects. At the OECD, the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Initiative is exploring tools and approaches that could contribute to better understanding of the complexity and interaction of our economic, financial, social and environmental systems.

Themes of particular interest will include:

· Agent-based Modelling

· Machine Learning

· Big Data Applications

· Evolutionary Economics

· Network Analysis

· Policy Experiments

· New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modelling

Please send your abstract of no more than 250 words to naec@oecd.org before January 25th 2019. The full call for papers is attached.

Lukas Lehner Young Associate Economist Office of the Chief Economist OECD Economics Department

2, rue André Pascal F-75775 Paris Cedex 16

Tel: +(33-1) 45 24 18 38

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