61st Annual Meeting and Conference

The PES invites individual papers and session proposals on all theoretical, empirical, and policy dimensions of the following sub-topics:

• Economic growth
• Sustainable economic development
• Digital economies
• Financial economics
• Competition and innovation frameworks and incentives
• Trade and economic integration
• Business cycle and productivity analysis
• Poverty alleviation and social protection
• Agriculture, natural resource and environmental management
• Labor economics
• Economics of energy/power and policy
• Institutional economics, law and order, liability rules
• Long-term planning, modeling, and economic forecasting
• Econometric models and applications
• Economics of natural disasters
• Public policy and public health crisis
• Education, health, and human capital formation

Submission of Proposals

All breakout sessions of the 61st PES Annual Meeting and Conference will be held on-site at the Novotel Manila Araneta City. 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.

The extended deadline for submission is on 31 August 2023. Proposals must be submitted through the submission form by clicking the button below.

Review and Acceptance of Proposals

All abstracts and session proposals shall be reviewed by the Conference Scientific Committee. PES shall issue notices of acceptance by 31 August 2022. Authors of accepted abstracts may also submit their full papers should they wish to be considered for possible publication in The Philippine Review of Economics journal.

Dates to Remember

* Only those who confirmed their participation and paid their registration fee will be included in the program.
** Submission of full paper is optional if the presenters wish to be considered for possible publication in The Philippine Review of Economics journal.