Focus: Credit Risk, Integrated Risk Management, Interest Rate Term Structure, Portfolio and Hedge Fund Management and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

Konfirmatorische Faktoren- und Regressionsanalyse, Pfadanalyse, Multigruppenanalyse, latente Merkmalsanalyse, Logik der Hypothesentestung, Fit- Masse, Strategien der Modellentwicklung, Bootstrapping.

The post-war period has witnessed a dramatic increase in international trade flows and foreign direct investment, as well as in the number of firms that produce outside of national borders. The objective of the conference is to improve our understanding of the impact of these trends. Specific...

The new WTO agenda of trade bargaining concentrates on how to proceed with the Doha Agenda in near future: This conference aims also to discuss the special role of the EU. (1) Liberalization of trade: e.g. in agricultural products; the Common Agriculture Policy; and food security; (2) GATS: to...

The AFF is the official symposium of the Financial Forecasting F2 section of the ESCMSE. The range of topics of interest is quite broad and it includes but is not limited to: 1. Computationally Intensive Methods in Economics, Finance and Forecasting. 2. High Frequency Forecasting. 3. Directional...

Session I: Macroeconomic Dimensions of Integration and Trade Session II: Economic Policy Dimensions of Integration and Trade Session III: Institutional Dimensions of Integration and Trade Papers submitted to these sessions should have a focus on trade, investment and regional integration issues,...

Can Slovenia sharpen its competitive edge? Despite healthy growth, the business community expects the new government to markedly improve Slovenian competitiveness and remove obstacles to doing business. But will the new government rise to the challenge? Slovenia isn’t looking as attractive as...

The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...