This year the Annual Conference of ELSNIT will focus on Trade and Climate Change. Papers examining the links between trade and climate change -including also those analyzing the relationship between trade and environment in general- along the macroeconomic, microeconomic, institutional, and...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Debt and sovereign risk: How to measure sovereign risk, public debt sustainability, sovereign risk premia, sovereign credit ratings; - Contagion in...

The workshop aims to promote discussion among academics by sharing recent research on the major topics related to audit quality. Papers on the following areas are welcome: - the role of regulation in improving audit quality - corporate governance systems and their impact on audit quality - audit...

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...

The EARIE 2012 Conference will include a few invited sessions on the program. Confirmed invited sessions are: - Panel on internet, online advertising, ecommerce - Marketing and IO - Dynamic and computational models in IO - Corporate Finance and IO - Auctions, bargaining, and mechanism design -...

The purpose of this workshop is to further contribute to this theoretical work but also to the empirical and numerical analyses in the field. We will therefore especially invite contributions dealing with - the theoretical analysis of supply reactions to climate policy, - new approaches to...

The following non-exhaustive list of topics would be particular welcome: - Theoretical and empirical analysis of taxes on the financial sector - Analysis of interactions and trade-offs between regulation and taxation - Effects of financial sector taxation on the macro economy and financial...

In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

Environment, energy, health, food safety and food security are among the most important nowadays issues linked with the challenge of a sustainable development of the so called bio-economy. Agriculture is a core sector of the bio-economy but the latter includes other important industries...