In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

Conference topics: A. Heterodox Approaches of Sustainable Development B. International institutions and sustainable development C. Social sustainability : content and relevance D. Considering the environmental dimension

Session I. - Volatility in Equilibrium: Asymmetries and Dynamic Dependencies - Inference on Sets in Finance - How Useful are No-Arbitrage Restrictions for Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates? Session II. - High Frequency Statistics with Irregularly Spaced Observations - Dissecting...

The Symposium will focus on Risk Management in Financial Institutions Issues. Topics suitable for Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: . Market, credit, operational, liquidity and integrated risk management, Investment management and hedge fund risk, Energy and commodity...

We invite submission of empirical, theoretical and experimental papers on investment banking, market microstructure and asset pricing. We particularly welcome papers on: . Algorithmic trading . Competition between trading platforms . Liquidity . Post-trading . Security design and origination

Draft agenda: Session I - Roundtable on Competition Policy, Industrial Policy and National Champions Session II - Competition Policy and The Informal Economy Session III - Challenges Faced by Young Competition Authorities Session IV - Other Business Session V - The Role of Competition...

The objectives: 1) To increase interaction between researchers on all continents who share an interest in issues related to dynamic risk sharing: - Dynamic contracting (optimal compensation schemes, delegated portfolio management,...) - Dynamic risk measures, risk sharing implications - Risk...

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

The conference will favour theoretical contributions, but also welcomes original applied studies showing explicit links with the analysis of sustainable development. All geographical areas are eligible: North and south, urban and rural, coastal and maritime, are all considered.

As part of its activities, the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Europe, organizes an annual symposium. A major part of the conference will be devoted to "Liquidity, credit and risk". Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for...