Up to the beginning of the 20th century stocks were primarily owned by wealthy private individuals. Now, 100 years later, institutional investors hold almost twice the amount. They have 112trn assets under management (AUMs) compared to the 72,3trn that were held by High-Net-Worth-Individuals in...

The aim of the next workshop of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to dig deeper into localisation economies and associated productivity gains. The increasing availability of new cross-border databases at the firm...

Programm: Session 1 “City location and economic development”, Session 2 “Endogenous Infrastructure Development and Spatial Takeoff”, Session 3 “Regional Market Integration and City Growth in East Africa: Local but no Regional Effects?”, Session 4 “On the Right Track: Railroads,...

In order to assess the financial stability implications of these recent developments, it is important for academics and policy makers to improve their understanding of risks arising from the behaviour of non-bank financial institutions and the evolution of the supporting market infrastructure,...

PhD students and early career researchers are invited to attend and present their work. Lectures will be given by: - Sascha Becker (Warwick) on “Long-run development and institutions” - Ruben Durante (Sciences Po & UPF) on “Political economics of traditional and new media” - Hannes...

The symposium covers all areas of theoretical corporate finance, including theory papers that combine corporate finance theory with a related area such as banking, market micro-structure, asset pricing, and financial accounting.

The three-day conference programme contains a mixture of plenary sessions given by keynote speakers and parallel streams, covering all aspects of O.R. which are of interest to both the Academic and Practitioner delegates. The one-day Making an Impact stream is specifically tailored to be of...

Topics of interest: - Financial innovation and its impact on the structure of the financial system; - Fintech and systemic risk and contagion; - Financial innovation, access to financial services and financial inclusion; - Crypto currencies, distributed ledgers and block-chain - Regulatory...

The Thirty-Sixth International Symposium on Economic Crime is the most extensive and ambitious programme that we have so far attempted to put together. The overarching theme is how we can better identify and render accountable unexplained and suspicious wealth. As we increasingly realise that...

Forecasting Financial Markets is an international conference on quantitative finance, which has been held every year since 1994. Conference Themes: - Modeling with high-frequency data - Market microstructure - Fund management and trading rules - Advances in asset management - Relative value and...