CONFERENCE PROGRAM: - The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises; - Macro and Micro Skewness and Volatility Over the Business Cycle; - Do We Need Traditional Dealers in OTC Markets?; - U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity; - Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market...

The aim of the conference is to discuss new modeling approaches and novel empirical evidence on heterogeneity in the behaviour of firms, households and financial intermediaries, and on policies aimed to address economic challenges arising in specific markets, regions or group of agents but...

Since 2005, property prices all over the world have been extremely volatile. Price increases and decreases have resulted in capital gains and losses for investors and fluctuating consumption possibilities of households. Trends in property markets affect financial stability, earnings and risks of...

This conference addresses the question of capitalism's transformative potentials and the limits to such transformations, if any such exists? How malleable are the logics and processes of capitalism? How is capitalism ceaselessly practiced and constantly redesigned? We aim to bring together...

The MAFIN 2010 edition will be particularly focused on the following topics: - Agent-based modeling and simulation of endogenous financial instability - Institutional and evolutionary economics perspectives to financial crises - Systemic risk in a credit network economy - Sovereign debt crises...

Distinguished international scholars lecture in thematic sessions on: Religion & the Welfare State, Immigration & the Welfare State, The Service Sector in the Welfare State, as well as Agency & Welfare State Development.

Faculty: Professor Mich Tvede Investment projects typically consist of an initial investment and some uncertain dividend. An example could be to build a factory and sell the produce at an uncertain market price. In the course investment projects are seen as flexible in the sense that investor is...

Faculty: Professor Jakob Brøchner Madsen The topics include share valuation models; technological change and the stock market, the macroeconomic determinants of share prices; the interaction between share prices, taxes, supply shocks, and inflation; the consumption capital asset pricing model;...

The call for papers will make clear that the conference embraces microscopic studies of the mechanisms of innovation, routine and selection as well as studies of the macroscopic problems of Schumpeterian growth and development as a process of "creative destruction". The broad range of issues...

The aim of the conference After the Gold Rush: Economic Crisis and Consequences is to explore various aspects of the current global economic crisis from a broad social science perspective. Iceland is an ideal location to host a social science conference addressing these historic events, which...