Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

The workshop brings academicians, practitioners, microfinance institutions and NGOs, who have a passion in the area of financial inclusion, to deliberate on research as well as contemporary issues. The theme for this year workshop is specifically addressed to product innovations. We invite...

The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP), announces a call for abstracts for the Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2013 (Population Days 2013). Each contribution to the conference should be submitted in one of the following strands: - Fertility - Migrations - Health and...

The main objectives of the Forum are to further the discussions on the different aspects that make for a good life today and in the future in different countries of the world and to promote the development and use of new measures of well-being for effective and accountable policy-making. Thus,...

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...

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 objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behavior and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. We solicit papers in the following areas, but...

This annual conference serves as a forum for academic scholars from diverse disciplines and research practitioners to share the best available research on both consumer and firm behavior related to China and India. Research on other emerging markets that help gain insights about the Chinese and...

Contributed sessions: - Oligopoly Theory - Contracts and Incentives - Empirical IO - Experiments in IO - Auction Theory - Vertical Relations - Competition Policy - Regulation - Industrial Policy - The Economics of R&D

Submitted papers should address at least one of the following questions: a) with respect to measurement: • How to measure the freedom/responsibility elements of opportunity? • How to take into account adaptive preferences? • How to measure the object of opportunity element: the "what"...