The Bank of England (BoE), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), European Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are convening a conference to examine how recent external, fiscal, monetary, and financial policy shifts are reshaping the international trade and financial systems and the potential risks to fiscal sustainability and of greater fragmentation.

Assessing resulting cross-border spillovers through trade, capital flows, and exchange rates requires rigorous research that bridges international finance, macroeconomics, monetary and financial economics, public economics, and trade.

The scientific committee includes Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (IMF), Natalia Ramondo (Boston University), Hyun Song Shin (BIS), and Chenzi Xu (University of California, Berkeley). Papers that are selected for presentation will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of International Economics (JIE), with guest editor Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University).