Guiding Questions: - How did trade policy affect the expansion of services trade and labor market outcomes over the last decades? - Which services sectors are most important for employment generation and how can services trade reform contribute to expanding them? - What are the employment links...

The Swiss banking industry is in a transition: asset management should become a new pillar of the Swiss financial center. But Swiss banks are facing strong competition from traditional asset management hubs. How can the Swiss financial industry master this challenge and find the solutions that...

We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research.

Topics: - The connection between funding liquidity, market liquidity and arbitrage trading during the recent financial crisis; - What is the role of arbitrage trading? Is it stabilizing or de-stabilizing financial markets? - Which are the causes and consequences of asset prices distortions and...

The conference brings together academics and central bankers from around the world to consider the implications of recent research for macroeconomic policy. For each conference, six to eight papers on a common subject are written by leading specialists in the field. These papers are discussed...

"[The conference] will foster interdisciplinary discussions around medicine, literature and the digital humanities. The goal is to bring together IT experts, physicians and literary scholars in order to work on the concrete elaboration of a digital database in the field of medicine and...

The Summit is the number one European platform for the restaurant industry. Issues we discuss are trendsetting and on tomorrow's agenda. Together we have created a think tank to analyse the most important changes in the industry as well as an annual forum where we may all share our thoughts on a...

New business models are emerging every day, but we usually take a long time to notice them. Who, ten years ago, would have thought that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google would one day turn the retail world upside down? Today’s start-ups are tomorrow’s game-changers. New players are writing...

We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research.

The organizing committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.