Topics: - Enterprises and product markets - Labor markets and social policy - Macro financial markets and open economy - Public economics - International trade and regional integration

This new edition of the Lisbon conference aims to bring together large numbers of researchers, policy makers for a review of the Lisbon Strategy, and a debate on the economic crisis and the prospects or a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The conference will cover areas of applied...

The conference will provide a platform for local and international scholars and prefessionals to convue, discuss, and share new and different perspectives regarding issues, challenges and inovations in the Islamic and conventional microfinance. The web site is no longer available.

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Course Summary: The course (Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) will examine the global credit crisis, including the deep underlying causes, the more immediate fragilities in the financial...

Topics to be covered include: - European regulatory overview: Where are we headed in regards to the regulatory reform of derivatives markets? - How much business are CCPs seeing in the new market and what regulation is headed down the pipeline? - Financial reform in the US: What will legislation...

Theme: Climate change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options. The objective of this seminar is to bring together agricultural economists and other scientists working in the field of rural and agricultural...

Empirical analysis of financial markets and the information contained therein is crucial for central banks. This analysis needs to take account of the latest developments in financial economics. For example, recent advances in techniques used to extract information from the prices of financial...

Join regulators, risk and capital managers, bankers and institutional investors in London this November for Preparing for Basel III - the first of Euromoney Seminars’ events on Basel III, where they will discuss how capital can be raised in a way that suits all parties and the methods by which...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...