With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in September 2015, a new set of objectives for global sustainable development will guide the global development agenda. Due to the universal acceptance and the integration into national goals, the SDGs provide a...

The general topic of the symposium is "Retirement and Asset Management". Papers submitted to the symposium can address related aspects such as the role of financial institutions, lifetime investment strategies, saving for future generations, the role of demographics, or financial literacy,...

In mehreren Vorträgen gehen die Referenten auf verschiedenste Bereiche der Sharing Economy ein. Thematisiert werden unter anderem Tauschbörsen, Rechtsgrundlagen im Tauschgeschäft und die gesellschaftliche Veränderung. Außerdem findet eine Podiumsdiskussion mit internationalen Referenten statt.

The general topic of the symposium is “Liquidity and Asset Management”. Papers submitted to this year’s symposium can address but are not restricted to the following aspects of this general topic: • Liquidity risks and their measurement • Liquidity management • Liquidity constraints...

Topics: - corporate bond valuation - corporate bond trading - distressed debt analysis - measuring and pricing default risk - credit derivatives and structured credit products - counterparty risk management - exchange rates, sovereign risk and emerging market debt - leveraged loan indices -...

The focus of this year’s symposium is on “real assets” such as real estate, commodities, etc. In particular we invite empirical and theoretical research on: the risk-return characteristics of real assets, return prediction in real asset markets, alternative instruments and investment...

The objective of this year’s symposium is to discuss new empirical and theoretical advances in research on hedge funds. We are particularly interested in research on new strategies for investment funds, analysis of alternative investments, style investing, and performance evaluation.