Focus: Credit Risk, Integrated Risk Management, Interest Rate Term Structure, Portfolio and Hedge Fund Management and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

While the resources of time and money devoted to economic forecasting experienced a considerable increase over the last decades, accuracy of these forecasts seems to have hardly improved. What are the consequences for future economic forecasting? The conference looks for answers in three...

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...

This two-day conference brings together experts in the field of monetary and financial integration in order to discuss current developments in East Asian financial markets and the prospects of regional financial and exchange rate co-operation. Sessions will be held on “Exchange Rate Policies...

This is the second conference in a new series launched by the Institute of Economic History at Humboldt University on quantitative economic and social history. This workshop, to take place annually, continues and revives forty years of tradition of Wolfram Fischer’s seminar series at the Free...

There will be a special issue of the JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE on “Markets and Institutions: Global Perspectives”. 1. Asset Pricing 10. Market Microstructure 2. Banking 11. Quantitative Finance 3. Capital Markets 12. Real Estate Investment 4. Corporate Finance 13. Risk and Insurance 5....

The implementation of sound quantitative risk models is a vital concern for all financial institutions, and this trend has accelerated in recent years with regulatory processes such as Basel II. The workshops provide a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques...

Topics to be analysed in presentations include (but are not restricted to): - Political economy models of conflict - The effect of conflict on economic activity - The potential role of globalization in fostering a more peaceful or more violent world - The relationships between development and...

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...

CofFEE announces the Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference which will incorporate the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 12th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be staged in Newcastle over two days - Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2005. Pencil in...