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....

Topics relevant to time use research: Children, youth; Child and elder care; Communication and media; Couple (intra-household allocation, bargaining, division of labor, time together); Data collection & quality; Food and eating; Free time and leisure; Health; Housework/household production; Local...

This is the ninth in a series of conferences on the applications of logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers that bring together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and decision theory,...

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...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.); Local Public Economics and...

The conference is an opportunity to present state-of-the-art international research on major issues regarding, and related to, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Submission of papers on broad Corporate Finance topics relevant to Private Equity is also welcome.

This workshop is devoted to time series forecast techniques using non stationary signals and to uncertain decision making chain applications. This subject covers a wide panel of industries: energy, finance, transportation and ecology. Topics: Topic 1 Methods for uncertain future (Uncertainties,...

This conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of corporate finance that include corporate aspects of the financial crisis and of financial cycles, the use of leverage, and in general capital structure and payout policy, security issuance, financial regulation, M&A, private...

Because corporate governance is at the crossroads of several disciplines (management, finance, law, and economics,...), it provides opportunities for high quality research papers. Papers that utilize any of a broad range of research methodologies and analytical frameworks will be considered.

Topics: - Economic Foundation of Risk Dependence: term structure of dependence, contagion models, effects of cycles, links between real and financial factors, dynamic of demand, lapse and prepayment, long run factors such as longevity, global warming or demography, effect of life cycle for...