The workshop is aimed at bringing together scholars involved with various aspects of banking in the Europe's emerging markets, as well as emerging markets elsewhere. We will discuss the current issues concerning banking in these countries, regulation challenges, financial crisis influence on...

Mini-conferences: - New theoretical perspectives in economic sociology - Money, finance and society - Organizations and institutions in emerging markets - Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations - Gender and work transformation - Market society and moral order - Performing economy...

Discussions will centre on Russia’s position in addressing domestic and global challenges. The economic, political and social reforms taking place in Russia now are of great interest to the world community, which recognizes that growth should be inclusive and that all efforts to restore...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...

The purpose of this workshop is to promote the use of advanced economic analysis (both theoretical and applied) in the field of natural resources, energy, and the environment, and their interaction with economic development. The objective is to gather a set of high-quality contributions that...

This year the conference will focus on two themes: Innovation in the context of rural areas and Mordernising the rural economy. Within these two policy streams several topics will be discussed, including: - Skill building - moving from lifetime employment to lifetime employability in rural...

The topics include, but are not limited to the following: - Game theory and management applications - Cooperative games and applications - Dynamic games and applications - Evolutionary games and applications - Stochastic games and applications - Game theory applications in fields such as:...

Topics for discussion could include: - Institutions in economic thought - Old and New institutional economics - National traditions and evolution of economic thought regarding institutions - Various economic schools on the role of institutions in the economy - Is economics a value-free or...

"The International Network for Economic Method seeks to promote links among economic methodologists, economists in all fields, and scholars in cognate disciplines. It aims to serve all who would reflect upon the methods of economics and of closely related social sciences."

A globalizing world economy and its impact on economic, social, and cultural spheres means that business education - itself becoming increasingly a “business” - is facing serious challenges related to building and sustaining comparative advantage in an increasingly competitive - but also...