Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

The conference will focus on growth and trade in the world’s leading emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) and the repercussions on the world economy. Topics will be: - Growth prospects of the BRICs - The BRICs and the current world economic crisis - International trade...

Topics: - Political and economic determinants of reforms - Information, the media and economic policies - Politics and the business cycle - Economic crises and political outcomes