Contributions on the following fields are welcome: 1)Governance of market exchanges in EU 2)Monetary policy, rates of interest and public debt management 3)Venture capital, innovation and growth 4)Banking regulation and competition 5)Financial Integration in EU 6)Corporate social responsibility...

Papers within the following areas are particularly welcome: 1. The importance of social capital in the context of European sport, healthcare, leisure, and/or non-profit and public administration 2. What is the relationship between organisational dispute resolution mechanisms, public trust, and...

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The aim of the conference is to develop a framework for the analysis of the role of global and local resources in achieving Sustainable Development (SD).

The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.

The conference, which continues to be one of the IBA’s most popular specialist events, brings together leading lawyers, competition specialists and regulators from around the world to discuss and examine the current policies and developments in international competition law.

Theme: "The Good Company.Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue."

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Regulation and risk taking in small business lending; - Risks in trade credit; - Structured loan derivatives; - Modelling credit risk for individual...

The aim of this conference is to investigate theoretically and empirically the effects that operational and functional distances from communities may exert on banks’ lending decisions, efficiency and profitability and on local economic development. Areas of interest include, but are not...

This call invites papers related to a broad range of topics to be investigated based on several types of surveys (business tendency surveys, consumer surveys, investment and innovation surveys, etc.) or based on the development and use of cyclical indicators, including methodological aspects....