The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

Das Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität St. Gallen und der Lehrstuhl Informations- und Kommunikationsmanagement der TU Berlin organisieren in Kooperation mit renommierten Unternehmen die Tagungsreihe „IT Operations Day“, die sich mit den zukünftigen Herausforderungen des...

The conference aims to bring together different institutions and experts who use or produce house price data in order to develop indices that better meet the needs of different types of users and producers. It would include academics, policy analysts, central bankers, statisticians and housing...

Scholars and PhD students are invited to submit papers on the following themes: - Global imbalances and current world financial crisis; - System risks of banking and other financial institutions; - Causes, consequences and lessons of the current and past crises; - The rise of economic...

Key topics to be discussed: - An aircraft finance odyssey: Will the funding gap arrive in 2010? - Are LCC models faring better than the legacy carriers? - Liquidity management for airlines in a troubled world - How airlines managing through the downturn? - Is long term commercial bank financing...

Topics: - Financial innovations in mortgage markets - Transmission of credit shocks - Subprime lending - Housing and credit in DSGE models - Housing and the macro economy - Determinants of house prices or mortgage lending - House prices in monetary policy strategies - Lessons from the credit crisis

The topics to be discussed are related, but are not necessarily limited to, the following questions: - How effective have monetary policy measures been in the recent and past crises? What is the relationship between interest rate and balance sheet policies of central banks? How does the...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...

The three dimensions of stability - the macro, meso and micro perspective – are interdependent in that the one cannot exist without the other. This interdependency is reflected in the structure of the 28th SUERF Colloquium, which is organised in three commissions. Commission 1: The End of the...