The main objective of the EIBA Doctoral Symposium is to provide an opportunity for young doctoral students in the field of International Business (IB) to potentially discuss their research plans and works-in-progress with a distinguished international Faculty as well as with their fellow...

The general topic of the symposium is "Retirement and Asset Management". Papers submitted to the symposium can address related aspects such as the role of financial institutions, lifetime investment strategies, saving for future generations, the role of demographics, or financial literacy,...

The OECD plans - as part of the BEPS initiative - to add various provisions to the existing Model Convention. The OECD further wants to make sure that changes to the OECD Model Convention can be implemented very quickly in the existing bilateral tax treaties. Therefore these changes will have an...

The main purpose of the WU Gutmann Symposium 2013 is to discuss various dimensions of sovereign credit risk and its implications for asset management. The papers of the symposium will focus on the following range of topics: sovereign credit risk, risk premia and stock market response; the role of...

The general topic of the symposium is “Liquidity and Asset Management”. Papers submitted to this year’s symposium can address but are not restricted to the following aspects of this general topic: • Liquidity risks and their measurement • Liquidity management • Liquidity constraints...

Research Topics of Interest: - Risk measurement and management in futures and clearing - Sources and determinants of liquidity - Market Making programs and volume development issues - Regulatory issues regarding stock lending and borrowing - VAR and other risk issues - Credit derivatives -...

Topics: - corporate bond valuation - corporate bond trading - distressed debt analysis - measuring and pricing default risk - credit derivatives and structured credit products - counterparty risk management - exchange rates, sovereign risk and emerging market debt - leveraged loan indices -...

The focus of this year’s symposium is on “real assets” such as real estate, commodities, etc. In particular we invite empirical and theoretical research on: the risk-return characteristics of real assets, return prediction in real asset markets, alternative instruments and investment...

The objective of this year’s symposium is to discuss new empirical and theoretical advances in research on hedge funds. We are particularly interested in research on new strategies for investment funds, analysis of alternative investments, style investing, and performance evaluation.