The basic idea of this stream of workshop is twofold. On the one there is an assumption that looking at management and accounting in a integrated way, or at least making this two areas of research interact, is useful in order to better understand socio economic systems, at different levels. On...

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

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...

One important focus of the seminar will be on the opportunities for and interactions between artificial fish rearing and restocking depleted natural populations at sea. Key questions are: - what are the economic benefits? - how can substitution be effective? - which are the trade-offs, or...

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...

Topics will be: Corporate governance financing and performance Public debt management Financial Intermediation and Competition Credit Risk, Basel “ 2” and impact on SMI Venture capital, IPOs, and performance Microfinance, finance and ethics and corporate social responsibility Physics and...

The organizers invite submission of empirical and theoretical papers on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurship, the decision to go public, and intellectual property rights. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): • The choice between alternative sources of financing for...

Intra-family aspects are often neglected in the economic literature, although several studies have shown that intra-household distributional effects should not be ignored when evaluating the welfare effects of social and family policies. However some obstacles remain in the theoretical...

Subjects will include: 1. How do the different building blocks of a financial system interact ? 2. How can the links between these building blocks and financial development be measured? 3. Is it possible to identify the channels through which various factors influence the development of...