The theme of the third IEU-SUNY,Cortland International Conference in Economics is “Emerging Economic Issues in a Globalizing World”. The Economics Departments of Izmir University of Economics and State University of New York at Cortland have been organizing an annual conference in economics around a selected theme of current interest to the economics and business academia since 2006. This year’s conference will take place in Izmir on May 1st and 2nd 2008. (See Conference 2006 and Conference 2007 for pictures and proceedings of the past two conferences.

The conference keynote speakers will be Professor Anil Markandya from the University of Bath and Professor John Weeks from the University of London. Anil Markandya is a leading world expert on sustainable development and is part of IPCC team that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. John Weeks is an internationally respected expert on the issues of pro-poor growth and worked for a variety of international organisations including the FAO, ILO and UNDP.

We invite you all to submit paper proposals on any economic issue that has acquired a significant new dimension in the last two decades.

Proposals must be submitted electronically (ecoconference2008@ieu.edu.tr) by April 1st, 2008.

Proposals should be no more than 500-words and include the following:

Title (60 character limit)
Objectives
Data/Methods
Results/Expected Results
Conclusion

To be included in the proceedings full papers must be submitted electronically by April 15,2008.