Broad themes of the conference are: a) Development and Livelihood b) Environment and Sustainability c) International Trade and Growth d) Recent Issues in Financial Economics e) Gender Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Development

The value derived for a business organization from intangible assets has considerably increased in the knowledge-based economy of the 21st century. The wide gap in the market-value and book-value of equity shares of most of the firms is a testimony to the fact that the traditional balance sheet...

The conference theme is Real Time Econometrics and will focus on forecasting, issues related to data revisions, and the econometric analysis of high-frequency data. Theoretical and applied contributions are invited and we particularly welcome contributions that relate the global financial crisis...

TOPIC AREAS: 1 Asset Pricing 2 Banking / Financial Institutions 3 Financial Accounting 4 Financial Statement Analysis 5 Equity Valuations 6 Earnings Quality 7 Financial Economics 8 Financial and Economic Integration 9 Capital Markets 10 Corporate Finance 11 Corporate Governance 12 Derivative...

Employment is a key aspect of inclusive and sustainable development and this conference will deal with the following key labor market issues: - short and medium term outlook for jobs; - informal and non-regular employment; - unemployment insurance and social policy in developing Asia; -...

Key topics: · Linking Risk & Business Strategy – Balancing Risk tolerance & Business opportunities · Credit Risk Portfolio Management – Optimizing it to boost profitability · Transparency & Counterparty Risk Assessment – Performing robust credit evaluations · Liquidity Risk Management...

The organizing committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on competition in banking. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to): • Competition and stability: trade-off or complementarity? • Industrial organization of...

This practical workshop by Uwe Wystup covers the modeling, pricing, hedging and application of FX exotics for use in trading, risk management, financial engineering and structured products.

Preliminary program: Session I. - Coherency Conditions: Thirty Years Later - Generalized Method of Moments with Tail Trimming - Towards Identi¯cation of Shocks in State-Space Models: Application to Stochastic Volatility Session II. - Habit, Long Run Risks, Prospect? A Statistical Inquiry -...

Topics: - Fiscal and monetary policies when interest rates are at, or close to, the zero lower bound, including balance sheet and debt management considerations. - Modelling financial stability Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only.