Workshop on “Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and Policy” aims at bringing together researchers focusing on:
— various approaches to measuring uncertainty and risk;
— uncertainty and its global spillovers;
— monetary and fiscal policy in times of uncertainty;
— the role of uncertainty in economic forecasting;
— identification of uncertainty shocks;
— assessing the effects of uncertainty at the firm and household levels;
— causal effects of uncertainty on the global economy and financial markets;
— uncertainty and climate change;
— trade policy uncertainty and geo-economic fragmentation;
— inflation uncertainty;
— forecasting in a changing environment.
CONFERENCE DATE: 19-20 June 2026
CONFERENCE VENUE: SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Building S
IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 31 March 2026; Decision: 15 April 2026
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please send full papers as a PDF or extended abstract to uncertainty.warsaw@gmail.com with the subject “Uncertainty workshop in Warsaw”. Submitters should indicate whether they want their submission to be considered for inclusion in the IREF special issue.
IREF SPECIAL ISSUE: The papers presented at the workshop can be considered for inclusion in the International Review of Economics & Finance (IREF) special issue titled “Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and Policy”. The papers will be peer reviewed on an expedited basis. The special issue will be edited by Zidong An, Joscha Beckmann, Svetlana Makarova and Karol Szafranek.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padova) and Xuguang Simon Sheng (American University)
- LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Michał Rubaszek (Committee Chair), SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Piotr Dybka, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Marek Kwas, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Joanna Plebaniak, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Bogusława Wąsik-Szczygieł, SGH Warsaw School of Economics- SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Xuguang Simon Sheng (Committee Chair), American University
Zidong An, Renmin University of China
Joscha Beckmann, FernUniversität Hagen
Wojciech Charemza, University of Leicester
Laurent Ferrara, SKEMA Business School
Davide Furceri, International Monetary Fund
Klodiana Istrefi, European Central Bank
Svetlana Makarova, University College London
Karol Szafranek, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Bo Sun, University of Virginia
Gazi Salah Uddin, Linköping University- PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF NEUR CONFERENCES
First Biennal Conference on Uncertainty and Economic Forecasting London, UK, May 8-9, 2014
Second Biennial Conference on Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the Global Economy, London, UK, May 12-13, 2016
Third Biennial Conference on Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Measurement, Facts and Fiction, Beijing, China, May 10-11, 2018
Fourth Biennial Conference on Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Global Perspectives, Online, May 13-14, 2021
Fifth Biennial Conference on Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and Forecasting in a Changing Environment, Padua, Italy, September 21-22, 2023
Sixth Biennial Conference on Uncertainty and Risk in Macroeconomics: Decision Making and Policy Challenges, June 12-13, 2025, Marseille
