FOCUS: Pensions, Insurance, Regulation, Model Risk, CVA, Risk Measurement, Commodities, Emissions Trading and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

This workshop aims to present and discuss recent and ongoing research in mathematical finance, that goes beyond classical assumptions, allowing to investigate phenomena not covered e.g. under the classical risk neutral paradigm.

The seminar intends to take a fresh look at agricultural insurance markets in Europe, their up to date designs and commodities covered and how these affect farmer adoption and actual levels of risk reduction. It also investigates the role of public policy in the provision of agricultural...

We want to invite researchers working in such diverse fields as network applications, telecommunications, call-centers and pure queueing theory to participate. In all these research fields models show up in which the customers play a more active role than in the traditional queueing models such...

Topics: Business and marketing strategies; Case studies; Communication and media; Consumer preferences and wine buying behaviour; Sensory preferences of consumers; Distribution channels, retailing; E-commerce; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurship and family business; Financing and accounting;...