The increased use of the Internet, social media and other virtual sites for discussing and accomplishing work and organization raises both new possibilities and new challenges for conducting organizational research. We have the opportunity to view work in a different way, to access the...

This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based...

The topics of the workshop include large dimensional panel data, factor models, random matrix theory, sparse high-dimensional models, model selection, model averaging, large financial data, and other high-dimensional econometric models.

Topics: - The financialization of commodity futures markets and their integration with other asset classes - Asset pricing models for commodities, - Investing in commodities and momentum strategies with commodity futures, - Risk management of commodities, and - Dodd-Frank and the regulation of...

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate among researchers and policy makers from around the world on the performance of banking and financial markets, financial stability and risk management, and the monetary, regulatory and institutional environment, in light of the recent financial...

Much has changed since the onset of the global climate regime in the early 1990s. The globalization of the Western economic model and the rise of emerging economies are transforming the very structure of global governance. Due to decades of energy-intensive economic growth and exponential rise...

This seminar provides financial regulators with a structured way of thinking through these issues and applying the ideas to financial regulatory topics. Topics: - market failure analysis; - cost-benefit analysis; - compliance analysis; - embedding best practice within an institution; and - case...

We welcome contributions, which will help advance visions, practices, technologies, research and theories to be much better support for Business and Management purposes. The scope of ICAICTBM 2013 will cover but not be limited to: Session I: ICT for Business and Management Session II:...

Topics: - Institutional design and governance of global and/or local food supply chains - Adoption of technological, commercial and institutional innovations in food supply chains -­ Impact of specific supply chain innovations on outcome variables related to economic growth, poverty reduction,...

Topics: - Energy and Resources - Health - Information Technology and Telecommunications - Infrastructure and Urban Development - Manufacturing - Mobility - Science and Technology Participation in these meetings is by invitation only.