The theme of the conference is "Risk Management and Asset Allocation" The conference will focus on the asset allocation function. In addition, there will be papers related to risk management to compliment the asset allocation theme. Both the theoretical and practical dimensions of both areas...

Topics: - Behavioral economics/finance - Bounded Rationality - Cognitive, social, and personality psychology - Consumer Psychology - Current economic trends/Financial crisis - Fairness, inequality aversion - Gender and economic issues - Happiness - Heuristics - History of economic thought -...

The Summer Seminar provides a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and the applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial crisis. It is of particular interest to graduate students, recent...

Each Spring, thousands of government officials, the private sector, journalists, academia, civil society representatives, and other interested observers gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. At the heart of the gathering are meetings of the joint World...

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk and...

Topics: - Causes & depth of crises; policies, institutions & strategies to ameliorate financial crises, deep recession & un(der)employment in short & long-term; - Capital flows, banking & credit systems, financial ‘innovations’, credit markets, institutional regimes of accumulation,...