The main Conference theme: “Economic Integration into the European Union-Challenges and Opportunities”. Subthemes: - Competition, Innovation and Economic Growth - Accounting Standardization - Monetary Policies and Supervision of Banking - Finance and Risk Portfolio Management

The International Conference proposes to highlight the various dimensions of Financial Risk Management – Innovative Tools and Techniques, within the basic corporate objective of wealth creation and wealth protection. The importance of achieving corporate objectives within an appropriate and...

Papers adopting qualitative, quantitative and macro or micro economic approaches to understanding aspects of knowledge intensive sectors are welcome. As are those providing conceptual developments and critical appraisals of various dimensions of knowledge and innovation within...

Themes: Green Growth, Environment and Sustainable Development; Millennium Development Goals and Environment; Human Welfare Impacts of the Environmental Changes; Economic Development and Environmental Degradation; Pollution, Climate Change and Impacts; Green Accounting, Environmental Valuation...

Topics: - the effects of the terms of trade on the economy - financial intermediation and monetary policy - DSGE estimation, factor models and policy evaluations - learning and DSGE estimation

The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

The SMS Special Conference theme will be Emerging India: Strategic Innovation in a Flat World. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): - Emerging market firms’ strategies in global markets - New models of Multinational Firm Strategies - Corporate governance in Indian firms -...

Topics: • The role of creditors in the reorganization of distressed firms - The liquidation preference of secured creditors - Conflicts between (1) junior and senior creditors, and (2) debt and equity - The effects of creditors on managerial delay decisions and procedure selection - The...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The tentative outline of the course is: 1. The Basic New Keynesian Model 2. Monetary Policy Design in the Basic New Keynesian Model a Baseline Model for Monetary Policy Analysis 3. Extensions of the Basic NK Model(I) 4. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (II) 5. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (III)