Economia the journal of LACEA

Economía, the Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), calls for papers to be presented at its 18th panel meeting. This panel meeting will be held in October or November 2008 during the annual LACEA Conference. Please note that this call for papers has nothing to do with the LACEA call for papers: they are independent from each other.
Journal characteristics:

It is a policy journal --that is, one in which new theories or techniques are applied to policy questions, and not simply presented for their own sake.
It seeks papers on issues that are both at the forefront of the policy agenda and of broad interest to countries throughout the region. Examples include the design of regulatory frameworks for privatized utilities, lessons on avoiding Asia-style financial meltdown, managing the challenge of greater economic integration, and new research on the determinants of earnings inequality.
It demands the highest standards of theoretical and statistical rigor, but only publishes papers that are written in a style and language accessible to policy makers.

The closest models are the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity in the United States and Economic Policy in Europe --both of them policy-relevant publications that carry weight with decision-makers while adhering to very high standards of research.

Following the model of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and Economic Policy, papers are presented at twice-yearly panel meetings. One of these meetings is scheduled with the LACEA annual meeting. The other is hosted by various academic institutions in Latin America and the USA.

Papers sought:
Papers should adhere to the criteria above. They should deal with any topic relevant to economic policy-making in Latin America and the Caribbean. They can be theoretical, empirical, or a mixture of both, as long as they are policy-relevant. They should be written in English, in a style and language that avoids jargon and needless technicalities. They should not exceed 40 double-spaced pages, including graphs, tables and references. Please note that in the past call for papers the rejection rate has been in average 80% of the submissions.

Submission procedure:
Send paper electronically to Managing Editor Catherine Mathieu-Canuto (economialacea@uol.com.br). We only accept complete papers in English (no abstracts). Please specify all your contact information, affiliation, title of the paper and co-authors in the e-mail you send. Papers submitted in any other way will not be considered.

Deadline: THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!!

The deadline to submit your paper is now March 23, 2008. You will only hear back from the editors (by end of May 2008) if your paper is invited to be presented at the panel meeting to be held in Fall 2008. An invitation to present a paper at the panel meeting is not a guarantee the paper will be published in Economía. After presentation, papers are subjected to a refereeing and evaluation process. Only a subset of panel papers is eventually published in Economía.