Philippine Economic Society (PES)
Navigating Disruptions: Philippine Institutions, Markets, and ASEAN Cooperation Amidst Global Conflicts
13 November 2026 | Novotel Manila Araneta City, Quezon City, Philippines
Recent geopolitical developments—including tensions in the Middle East and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war—are reshaping global economic conditions. These disruptions are transmitted across economies through energy markets, trade flows, supply chains, and financial systems. For the Philippines, a highly energy-import-dependent economy, such shocks pose significant challenges to price stability, external balances, and inclusive growth.
Rising global fuel and commodity prices continue to exert inflationary pressures, disproportionately affecting low-income households whose expenditures are concentrated on food and transport. Firms, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, face tightening margins amid increasing input and logistics costs. At the same time, geopolitical instability introduces uncertainty for overseas Filipino workers, potentially disrupting remittance inflows that account for a substantial share of household income and national output.
At the macroeconomic level, policymakers are confronted with the complex task of balancing inflation control, growth objectives, and the distributional consequences of rising living costs. Persistent external shocks test the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy tools, while heightened uncertainty may dampen investment and employment generation.
Within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, these shared vulnerabilities underscore the urgency of strengthening regional cooperation. Initiatives on energy security, food system resilience, and financial safety nets, alongside deeper institutional coordination and market integration, are critical to enhancing collective resilience in an increasingly volatile global environment.
The 64th PES Annual Meeting and Conference will be held back-to-back with the 49th Annual Conference of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations (FAEA), which will be held on 14 November 2026 at Novotel Manila. For more information on the 49th FAEA Conference, please visit this link: https://economicsph.org/faea49
For inquiries, please contact the conference secretariat at pesconferences@gmail.com.
Conference Registration
All plenary and breakout sessions of the conference will be held onsite.
The deadline for pre-registration is 6 November 2026. Walk-ins will still be accepted on the day of the conference.
How to Register
Step 1. Fill out the online registration form through the button below.
Step 2. Pay the corresponding registration fee.
The registration fees for the back-to-back conferences are as follows:
Note: Early bird registration ends on 30 September 2026.
Payment Options:
Bank Deposit or Transfer
Pay through bank deposit/transfer and send a clear copy of the deposit slip to pesconferences@gmail.com:
- Account name: Philippine Economic Society, Inc.
- Account number: 2281-0007-08
- Bank branch: BPI - U.P. Techno Hub
Online payment
Pay via PayPal or credit/debit card through the button below and forward a copy of the confirmation email to pesconferences@gmail.com:
Plenary Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Lili Yan Ing, Ph.D.
Secretary General, International Economic Association
Dr. Lili Yan Ing is the Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA), a globally recognized institution dedicated to pushing the boundaries of economic thought and addressing pressing global policy challenges. She is also a Distinguished Fellow of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN), contributing to the formulation of sustainable economic solutions and strategies on a global scale. From 2012 to 2026, she served as Lead Advisor for the Southeast Asia Region at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, leading strategic initiatives to advance regional economic integration.
Dr. Ing served as Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia (2017–2019) and previously as Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment at the President’s Office of Indonesia (2015–2016). During her tenure, Indonesia advanced trade and investment policy initiatives, including the successful conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the Indonesia—Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the Indonesia—Korea CEPA, and the Indonesia—EFTA CEPA. Dr. Ing was also involved in the reactivation of the Indonesia—EU CEPA. Additionally, she represented Indonesia at the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting and the WTO—OECD Trade Ministers Meeting in 2018.
Her new book, The New Global Economic Order (ed with Dani Rodrik), adds to her distinguished work, that includes Local Content Requirements (ed with Gene Grossman), Robots and AI: A New Economic Era (ed with Gene Grossman), G20 Indonesia: New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing (ed with Dani Rodrik), The Indonesian Economy (ed with Gordon Hanson and Sri Mulyani Indrawati), World Trade Evolution (ed with Miaojie Yu), East Asian Integration (ed with Shujiro Urata and Martin Richardson), and Regional Integration and Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN (ed with Ralf Peters and Olivier Cadot). In addition, she led the national teams in developing the Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) database for the 16 East Asian countries from 2013 to 2015, NTM Database and is actively involved in envisioning the ASEAN Digital Community 2045.
In recognition of her long-standing and significant contributions to the field of economics and policy globally, Dr. Ing was awarded the IEA Fellow Award in 2022. She received the PAFTAD Promising Young Economist award in 2009 following the completion of her PhD and graduated summa cum laude as the fastest-completing graduate in her cohort from Gadjah Mada University in 1999.
Hotel Accommodations
Novotel Manila Araneta City
Novotel Manila is offering special room rates for PES-FAEA Conference participants:
- PhP 6,500 nett per night – Single occupancy
- PhP 7,000 nett per night – Double occupancy
The rates include buffet breakfast, government taxes, and service charges.
To reserve a room, please email Novotel Reservations at h7090@accor.com, with a copy to Ms. Natasha Enrique (natasha.enrique@accor.com) and Ms. Lei Cacanindin (Lei.CACANINDIN@accor.com).
KIndly use “Room Accommodation for PES-FAEA Participants” as the email subject.
Please note that the special room rates are subject to room availability.
Call for Papers and Sessions
The 64th PES Annual Meeting and Conference invites scholarly and policy-oriented contributions that examine how Philippine institutions, markets, and governance structures can better respond to global disruptions, and how ASEAN cooperation can be leveraged to strengthen regional resilience.
Suggested Topics for Paper and Session Proposals
- Macroeconomic Policy and Stability
- Inflation dynamics and monetary policy responses
- Fiscal strategies for managing external shocks
- Exchange rate volatility and external balances
- Energy and Food Security
- Energy security challenges and strategies
- Food security challenges and strategies
- Climate and geopolitical risks to resource security
- Households, Inequality, and Welfare
- Cost-of-living impacts and social protection responses
- Consumption behavior under economic stress
- Remittances, migration, and household resilience
- Firms, Markets, and Industrial Dynamics
- MSME adaptation strategies and labor market responses
- Supply chains, connectivity, and diversification
- Investments, incentives, and technology
- Governance and Institutional Capacity
- Public sector responsiveness to crises
- Regulatory quality in times of uncertainty
- Anti-corruption strategies and reforms
- Regional Cooperation and ASEAN Integration
- Regional safety nets and crisis response
- Trade and investment integration and supply chain coordination
- Institutional frameworks for collective resilience
Note: If you have a paper that does not clearly fit in any of these subtopics, you are still welcome to submit.
Submission Guidelines
All breakout sessions of the 64th PES Annual Meeting and Conference will be held on-site at the Novotel Manila Araneta City, Quezon City, Philippines. Individuals or institutions interested in organizing breakout sessions must prepare proposals for a 1.5-hour session. Meanwhile, individual paper presenters will be grouped together into breakout sessions to be organized by the PES.
Individual paper submissions must include (1) a two-page executive summary of the paper containing the purpose of the research, method of data gathering and analysis, and overview of findings; and (2) a 150-word maximum abstract of the research paper.
Session organizers must submit a session proposal in one Word document file, which includes (1) the session title; (2) a 150-word maximum session abstract; (3) titles and abstracts of each paper presentation; and (4) the list of session participants (e.g., moderator, presenters, discussants), including their names, institutional affiliations, positions, and email addresses. You may download the session proposal template by clicking here.
Dates to Remember
| Deadline of submission of paper and panel proposals | 15 July 2026 |
| Start of release of acceptance notification | 17 August 2026 |
| Deadline for submission of full papers* | 15 September 2026 |
| Conference date | 13 November 2026 |
* Submission of full paper is optional if the presenters wish to be considered for possible publication in The Philippine Review of Economics journal.