The particular focus of this 12th conference is captured by the theme: Interfaces - in theory and practice. The papers presented in this conference are expected to fit broadly – but not exclusively - into one of the following categories: A. Organizing for product development B. Competencies...

Karnataka represents a microcosm of the development prospects and problems and challenges for India, and for developing countries more generally. Known globally for the high tech achievements of Bangalore, and for being an early proponent of the panchayat system, the state also contains...

Pension reforms top the political agenda across the OECD countries. Increases in life expectancy, decline in fertility, a reduced labor force participation, rising instabilities in working careers, and the impending retirement of the baby boom generation create pressures to cut benefits,...

The primary objective of the conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Business is to bring together eminent academics and industry leaders from the Pacific Basin region to discuss and exchange ideas on contemporary issues in financial markets, new products and services,...

The Center for Financial Studies (CFS) invites the submission of theoretical, empirical and policy oriented papers on risk transfer between corporations, (re-)insurers, banks, and markets. Its two objectives are 1) to present the state of the art of international research on the economics of...

Economic and social sets of human rights (like political and civil rights) have been primarily defined as individual rights. John Rawls for instance deals with the problem "how a society should determine what constitutes a basic set of rights and thus constitutes justice: each of us should go...

The purpose of the workshop is to promote the stimulation and dissemination of experimental economics research in Finland. To this end, the workshop includes keynote lectures by internationally distinguished specialists in the field. It will also provide PhD students and researchers from Finland...

A global network of individuals and institutions conducting economy-wide analysis of trade, resource, and environmental policy issues has emerged. More than two thousand of these researchers now use a common data base, supplied by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). The project is...