Announcement and Call for Papers The principal objective of the symposium is to encourage further research in the areas of banking, finance, and insurance, and to strengthen cooperation between theory and practice. Papers dealing with the following topics are particularly welcome: • Corporate...

Multinational companies (MNCs) increasingly attempt to leverage organisational practices (behavioural routines / activities of stakeholders) across their international subsidiaries in order to improve the worldwide use of their organisational skills as an important source of competitive...

Das World Business Forum ist ein Symposium auf dem bedeutende und einflussreiche Köpfe über aktuelle Themen sprechen werden. Über alles, was für die Business Community wichtig ist. Nach dem Erfolg von 2004 versammelt das World Business Forum - wiederum in Frankfurt - die einflussreichsten...

The prize will honor an internationally renowned researcher who has excelled through influential contributions to research in the fields of finance, money and macroeconomics, and whose work has lead to practice and policy-relevant results. The prize, sponsored by the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank...

The EU Regulation on the application of International Accounting Standards (IAS-Regulation) will have fundamental consequences not only for the companies concerned but also for the accounting systems and infrastructures of individual member states. The workshop will provide a forum to discuss...

The Hamburg-based HWWA Institute for International Economics and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU) are organising a joint workshop on this issue in order to advance our knowledge on the effects of FDI in CEE and to provide a discussion forum for experts in this...

The conference aims to bring together academics, researchers in central banks and policy-makers to discuss the existing empirical evidence on structural changes brought about, either directly or indirectly, by the introduction of the euro in five areas: Trade integration Structural reforms in...

Rising international competition and integration of financial markets have affected the banking industry and could result in significant effects on the macroeconomy as well, because of the importance of the banking industry in credit extension. This conference seeks research on topics related to...

The interplay between migration and labour markets is an important current issue for the societies of industrial countries. The aim of the workshop is to present and compare current approaches of the social scientific disciplines as to the topic "migration and labour market". The contributions...

Derivatives ideally reflect the tension and co-operation between academia (gown) and actors in financial markets (town). There are few fields were the exchange between the two has been as close and as prolific. In order to grasp the full advantages and possibilities offered by derivatives,...