Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina Announces a Call for Papers

7/16/2018

Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina announces

 

A CALL FOR PAPERS

 

In order to stimulate research and innovation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of financial sector development, the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBH) announces a call for papers. Our aim is to act as a medium for dissemination of high-quality research in the area of financial sector development, by organizing once a year a round of seminars at which the selected research will be presented, and by publishing the papers on the CBBH website. Researchers from academic and policy-making institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad are invited to submit the paper proposals.

Interested authors should send their proposals for research papers electronically, in the form of concept notes for planned research or extended abstract for papers that are underway or finished, by e-mail to [email protected] no later than 16 August 2018. After a blind review, the accepted authors will be notified no later than 3 September 2018 and requested to submit their full papers by 30 November 2018. The papers will be presented at a series of seminars in Sarajevo during December 2018. If accepted, after addressing the reviewers’ comments, papers should be submitted for publication as a working papers at website of the CBBH by 30 January 2019.

The papers submitted could be related to the following topics:

(i) Banking;

(ii) Nonbank finance;

(iii) Capital markets;

(iv) Financial system infrastructure;

(v) Monetary policy;

(vi) Household and business finance, and;

(vii) Balance of payments.

 

Papers submitted for this program shall not be submitted for publication elsewhere, either prior to submission or while under consideration at the CBBH.

The Concept Notes shall include:

  • Full name of all authors and the primary affiliation for each author (the institution where the majority of their work was done).

  • Title and specific reference to the above topic(s).

  • A short summary of the main idea of your proposal, rationale behind the research and expected conclusions.

  • A concise description of the proposal, with defined research questions and objectives, data and methodology and tentative findings, if applicable.

  • To be of maximum length of 800 words.

  • To be written in English.

     

Guidelines for full papers will be available on CBBH website.

For all enquiries please contact Selena Begović at [email protected].

Important dates

16 August 2018: Deadline for submission of concept notes

3 September 2018: Notification of acceptance

30 November 2018: Submission of Full research papers

The first half of December 2018: Seminars in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

30 January 2019: Submission of revised papers

15 February 2019: Review of final papers

15 March 2019: publication of papers at CBBH website



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