Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia will bring together different stakeholders, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and explore opportunities for implementing the concepts and requirements of the Green...

The Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance offers PhDs and young researchers the opportunity to develop high level skills in analyzing governance issues like climate change, biodiversity preservation, sustainable use of biological resources, water management, and pollution. The...

Topics: - Systemic vs Systematic Risk Measurement, Systemic Risk Factors, - Stress Testing, Systemic Risk Allocation Capital Adequacy and Procyclicality, - Contagion Model, Double Default, Bilateral Counterparty Risk and Chain Failures, - Network Modelling Tools, - Risk Concentration, -...

Topics: - Corporate governance - Takeovers and executive compensation - Capital stucture and bankruptcy - Mergers and acquisitions - Corporate governance - Private equity and corporate control

The aim of this conference is to take stock of a number of recent studies that aim at assessing the evolution of firms' financing during the crisis and of its consequences for their default risk and survival. Besides two keynote lectures by David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School and NBER)...

Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

The Ph.D. course will critically scrutinize the possibility of compensating for continual and long-term economic growth by dematerialization and steadily increasing eco-efficiency. The role of institutional frameworks in facilitating or discouraging dematerialization and increased eco-efficiency...

We invite academic research papers closely related to the following issues: • How severe are moral hazard problems caused by government rescue operations, and how can these problems be mitigated? • How can the government strike the right balance between limiting the immediate costs of a...

Topics: - The role of different institutions and markets in the propagation of the financial crisis; - The implications of financial innovations on macroeconomic indicators; - Financial institutions incentives, their impact on behavioral drifts and risks; - The effect of corporate governance...