The topic of this year's conference is “Pensions in an Ageing Society”. Worldwide, ageing will have a major impact on the economy. Social security and pension systems must be designed to meet changes in the demographic composition of the population. For central banks, ageing of the society...

This is the first time that the Congress to be convened in Asia under its new name, the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. There are also two new practices which will be adopted for this Congress. First of all, rather than just submitting their written reports as was...

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in computational methods, methodology for data analysis and applications in statistics. It is associated with the Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA), the official journal of the...

In the past decade, issues of trust in inter- and intra-organisational relationships have been increasing in importance on the agendas of organisational scholars, legitimated by changes in the social structure of societies, economic exchange relations and organisational forms. Due to...

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...

Among the topics which could be addressed are · cost functions of payment and settlement operators · costs of fragmentation and efficiency implications of unifying payment systems · pricing strategies of payment services and their welfare implications · consolidation in the payments industry...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

The ownership structure of corporations has attracted much attention in the wake of the corporate governance scandals. Much attention has been focused on publicly-listed firms in the wake of the legislative responses in the US (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and in Europe (the EU Commission’s...

(1) Transition Economics and Law, (2) European Law and Economics, (3) Intellectual Property and Property, (4) Torts and Crimes, (5) Contracts and Contractual Regulation, (6) Corporate law and Corporate Governance, (7) Litigation and Production of Legal Rules, (8) Public Law and Economics, (9)...