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.
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 | 30 June 2026 |
| Start of release of acceptance notification | 31 July 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.
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:
Payment Options:
Online payment
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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