Top academics from the field of finance will present their research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 2014 Finance Symposium. The event is hosted annually by the Business School's Finance Department at HKUST. The theme is Asset Pricing.

EfD, the Environment for Development Initiative, has become a leading global network for economists working on environment in developing countries. Every year the EfD network meets for an annual meeting with keynotes, research presentations and ample opportunities to interact with like-minded...

Topics: - Economics of Farming in areas with particular spatial agronomic characteristics and constraints - Economic Issues associated with specifically spatial policies such as Less Favoured Areas/Areas of Natural Constraint and The Economic Development of Rural Areas - Spatial Impact of Policy...

The Editors of Accounting & Finance invite submissions that address issues related to the Research Forum theme. We believe the theme is sufficiently broad to encompass submissions from all areas of accounting as well as finance. We particularly encourage papers related to the implementation of...

The following topics will be covered: - credit and asset price cycles; - statistical measures of systemic risk: - Value-at-Risk (VaR) - Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR) - Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES); - network models for systemic risk assessment; and - macroeconomic stress testing.

The event is the result of interdisciplinary and interregional cooperation, and it presently promotes the analysis of Chinese development in the areas of culture, economics and technology in the context of Chinese and European traditions. This year’s BHF will focus on the topics Green Economy,...

The conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of the economics of growth, development and technological change, including but not limited to: innovation in clean technologies (including fiscal and regulatory incentives for clean technology development), technology diffusion...

This course explores the cutting edge methods and policy applications in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field emerged in response to global sustainability crisis. With a clear sustainable development focus, it draws on the expertise of a range of disciplines: economics, ecology,...

The objective of the Conference is to foster interdisciplinary worldwide dialogue on the state of the art and the future agenda of economic geography. Its title ‘Mapping Economies in Transformation’ is based on the premise that while the world economy has been recently experiencing major...

The objective of this small conference is to present state-of-the-art academic research on topics related to investor behavior. Empirical, theoretical, and experimental papers are all welcome. Topics: - Behavior of different investor types (e.g. individuals vs. institutions), and their impact on...