Emerging Trends in International Macroeconomics: Insights and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the present Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management entitled “Emerging Trends in International Macroeconomics: Insights and Challenges”.

In times of uncertainty due to political and economic instability, as well as recurrent global crises—global GDP growth has dropped below the zero-percent threshold only twice after World War II: in 2009 due to the global financial crisis (−1.4%) and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (−3.1%)—it is vital to understand the following macroeconomic trends:

• Redefined global value chains (GVCs) and increased trade restrictions is a trend that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been monitoring since at least 2020;
• New, cashless payment methods (including those based on blockchain and cryptographic technology) induced by technical advances and the potential introduction of e-cash (also called “central bank digital currencies” (CBDCs)) issued by central banks;
• The international monetary order based on a few currencies, of which the US Dollar is the most prominent, (in)directly derived from the Bretton Woods Conference (1944), and the growing pleas for increased inclusion of BRICS countries and their own currencies;
• Sovereign and corporate bond debt that reached almost USD 100 tn at the end of 2023 (i.e., the size of global GDP) and the increasingly urgent need to stabilize public finances;
• Renewed consumer-price inflation, which was +8.0% in 2022 at the global level, and the enduring asset-price inflation that eventually led to some of the most notable crisis episodes in the 2000s;
• The income and wealth distributive effects of recent and current monetary policy decisions across the global economy, particularly in major advanced countries.

The topics of interest for the present Special Issue are not limited to those mentioned above as far as they belong to the field of macroeconomics. We, therefore, invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to add to the existing economic literature with original and high-quality papers, which will receive full attention and recognition from both Guest Editors and the Editorial Team.

An Article Processing Charge (APC, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jrfm/apc) of CHF 1400 currently applies to all accepted papers. Limited financial support for publication fees may be available for authors of excellent submissions without any source of institutional funding.

Prof. Dr. Edoardo Beretta
Prof. Dr. Sergio Rossi
Guest Editors

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