The Third China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM2021) will be held on June 28-30, 2021 in Beijing, China (the exact format, online or onsite, will be modified according to the COVID-19 situation). The conference is jointly sponsored and organized by Peking University Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE), Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (PBCSF) and China Forum of Macroeconomic Research (CFMR). The meeting is the third annual conference organized jointly by the China Forum of Macroeconomic Research and collaborating academic institutions in the Greater China area. The conference is composed of regular parallel academic sessions in English, as well as a policy session where policy experts from China and other regions discuss and present their views on current issues related to the local and the global economy.

We welcome high-quality academic papers in all areas of macroeconomics as broadly defined, especially research on Chinese macro economy. The topics include but not limited to, business cycles, economic growth and development, firm dynamics, income distribution and inequality, international trade and finance, labor market, macro-finance, monetary and fiscal policies, money and banking, networks, and structural changes. Only papers in English are accepted.