INET and CIGI Announce 2012 Grant Cycle

Accepting research proposals for joint grant program, with grants ranging in value from $25,000 to $250,000

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) are accepting research proposals for their joint 2012 Grant Program, with grants ranging in value from $25,000 to $250,000. To date, the program has awarded more than $17.5 million in research grants.

INET and CIGI seek to create an environment nourished by open discourse and to empower the next generation of scholars with the necessary support to accelerate and advance new and important thinking on economic issues. We encourage scholars worldwide, in economics as well as in related fields such as political science, sociology, anthropology, history, and the physical sciences, to submit grant proposals.

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Application & Instructions

Research Themes

Financial Instability and Macroeconomic Management

Topics under this area may include (but are not restricted to):

  • Origins and consequences of radical uncertainty
  • Theoretical and empirical explorations of financial contagion
  • Implications for real sector externalities
  • Implications of instability for policy design and governance
  • Fiscal policy in the presence of balance sheet overhangs
  • Fiscal policy, debt, and productivity 

Political Economy of Income and Wealth Distribution and Inequality Dynamics

Topics under this area may include (but are not restricted to):

  • Income and wealth distribution and its implications for both macroeconomic and microeconomic policies and performance
  • Income and wealth distribution and its implications for social cohesion
  • The role of politics and power in generating inequality
  • Alternative approaches to the distribution of resources 

Governance of the International Monetary and Financial Systems

Topics under this area may include (but are not restricted to):
  • Promoting international policy cooperation and collective action in providing international public goods
  • Sovereign debt sustainability
  • Legal and regulatory considerations in designing international governance mechanisms
  • Historical examinations of the international monetary and financial systems
  • Central bank monetary and liquidity responses during a financial crisis 

Innovation

Topics under this area may include (but are not restricted to):
  • The theory of innovation: optimization, evolution
  • The history of innovation: random processes, great surges
  • The financial economics of innovation: the funding of discovery, invention, deployment, commercialization
  • The political economy of innovation: the state as funder, customer, framer of IP regime
  • The organization of innovation: large enterprises, startups
While these are the key areas in which proposals will be funded, we will give due consideration to any proposal which is consistent with our mission of furthering new economic thinking. 

Apply For A Grant

Grant proposals are due by June 14th, 2012 and should be no longer than six pages in length. A
research jury will review first stage applications and in early August 2012 issue invitations for those with the most promising proposals to submit complete applications by early September 2012. Grants will be awarded by early November 2012. 

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For detailed information regarding the grant program and application process, please visit our grant FAQ or email: grants@ineteconomics.org