The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss labor markets dynamics and their relation with growth. Topics: - Labor market responses to macroeconomic and policy changes: structure of labor markets, downward wage rigidities, the institutional environment...

Paper proposals may address four major topics, although this list is not exhaustive: - local importers of developing and emerging countries, their individual trajectories, practices and their relationships with the administrations controlling the borders, their organization as transnational...

This 11th annual Darden International Finance Conference seeks to address international issues concerning risk. We expect both corporate finance and investments papers to be on the final program. Managing risk, be it political, financial regulatory, etc, is a major challenge to firms, market...

The objective of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, the aim is to promote applied research on existing measurement tools and/or experiments conducted by customs and tax administrations, international organizations and donors. As such, the contributions of practitioners are encouraged,...

Latin America, a thriving region of more than 600 million people, has a promising decade ahead. It is a leading global trader of agro-products with major reserves of raw materials and immense rainforests, which are vital for the global climate and hold potential for renewable energies. Major...

Possible sessions could include, but are not limited to, the following: - International capital flows - International portfolio allocation - International portfolio diversification - Global flight to quality - Liquidity and capital flows - Investing in emerging economies - Capital market...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the links between the recent crisis and financial globalization, broadly focusing on two main themes: 1) the two-way relationship between global imbalances and the crisis; 2) the impact of the crisis on the...

We welcome papers on International Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance that address issues of relevance for the economies of Latin America. Some topics of special interest are: • The 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis and its effects on emerging economies • Macroeconomic management of terms of...

Topics: - Sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and private equity ¨ The effect of governmental and non-governmental institutions on public policy, financial markets, and business strategy ¨ Design and impact of capital market institutions and securities exchanges ¨ Institutional investing ¨...