Possible topics: - Liberalization - Electronic competition to mail and express carriers labor economics - Service quality, reliability and pricing issues - Transition from monopoly to competition - Productivity issues - Financial viability and agency problems - Privatization, and...

Modelling with high frequency data Fund management and trading rules Funds of funds and balanced funds Advances in asset management and portfolio optimisation Relative value and market neutral strategies Modelling volatility and correlation Risk analysis and credit trading Derivatives pricing...

The Conference main topics are related to Income and Wealth Distributions, Lorenz Curve, Human Capital, Inequality and Poverty.

Programme: WORKSHOP I: "How to Implement a 'Sales and Operating Planning' (S&OP) Process Quickly and Effectively" WORKSHOP II: “Forecasting with Regression Models” Head of Information Mgmt. & Forecasting Supply & Capability, Global Operations AstraZeneca "The Role of Forecasting in the Sales...

With a newly elected US President, Iraq continuing its process of transition and the possibility of a new era for Palestinian politics, 2005 will be a crucial year for the Middle East. The World Economic Forum in Jordan will be a timely occassion to assess the significance of the latest...

Conference Theme: 'Globalization at the Crossroads' Participants are invited to address one of the most controversial subjects of the era -- globalization -- from their own diverse perspectives. Istanbul, long famous as a crossroads of trade between Europe and Asia and of different cultures, is...

Die Pfingsttagung ist eine offene Tagung, auf der über neue Arbeiten im Bereich der statistischen Methoden und ihrer Anwendung berichtet werden soll. Sie wird durchgeführt von den Ausschüssen: Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und Angewandte Ökonometrie, Neuere Statistische Methoden, Statistik...

In recent years, economic theorists have made important advances in understanding the transition of economies from pre-industrial stagnation to modern economic growth, while economic historians have developed a detailed empirical account of economic growth over the second millennium. The aim of...