This conference is aimed at investigating the relationship between financial structure, corporate governance and firm performance in highly competitive and integrated markets. Questions of interest include (but are not limited to): • What are the determinants of the ownership modes across...

Ziel ist es, die Vielfalt und Interdisziplinarität des Themas mit ihrer Verknüpfung verschiedener räumlicher Untersuchungsebenen darzustellen. Zur inhaltlichen Strukturierung heben wir zwei Schwerpunkte hervor: - Die Migrationen nach Europa sind durch eine zunehmende Diversität der Migranten...

Papers are specifically invited on the themes of: - Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation instruments, taking into account spatial and governmental considerations; - Development of new, incentive-compatible instruments to conserve biodiversity; - Evaluation...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the link between international trade and...

Main Topics: - Behavioral Law & economics: the state of the art and recent developments; - Experimental economics and incomplete contracts; - Bounded rationality, modularity and organization design, - Behavioral and experimental game theory: trust, social norms and institutions; - Law &...

Transport is considered one of the main sources of externalities. Important externalities are air pollution, noise, congestion, wear and tear, but also accident, congestion and schedule delay costs imposed upon others. It is proposed to focus the summer school not only on environmental problems...

Conference technical topics include: Air quality monitoring and assessment; Chemometrics; Ecological monitoring; Energy and Environment; Environmental human health statistics; Environmental monitoring; Environmental reporting and indicators; Environmental standards Environmental surveys;...

Topics: - Industrial Organization Theory - Competition Policy - Regulation - Empirical Industrial Organization - The Economics of R&D: theory and applications - Experimants in Industrial Organization

The conference themes will be related to Quantitative Methods for Banking and Finance, Environment, Services for SMEs, Transport and Tourism.

The workshop focuses on economic analysis broadly dealing with the impact of demographic change on labour markets or, indeed, vice versa. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions from both a micro- and macro-economic perspective. A conference volume is projected. Topics of interest...