To meet our climate targets and to reduce the economic dependence on fossil fuels we have to develop alternative energy systems and set up an appropriate infrastructure. This transition requires additional investments from companies and governments. Our conference will focus on these investment...

Papers that examine competition between financial intermediaries, the risk taking of individual banks, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation are of particular interest. The workshop aims at linking young economists interested in related topics. It provides a platform to...

The financial crisis and the European debt crisis in the euro have increased the interest in the early detection of financial constraints, as credit crunches affect investment decisions of firms and saving decisions of households. Economic tendency surveys and surveys in general are one...

Modern economies need a functioning financial system. The financial system has in principle four main functions: Providing a system for making payments, matching borrowers and lenders, enable people to manage their personal finances across their lifetimes and between generations and the sharing...

In 2017, our workshop topic reflects the context of culture. “The challenges of culture!”—indeed, it holds true for understanding and predicting consumer behavior. We understand “culture” in a very broad sense: also different corporate cultures of companies, culture of different...

The Conference Theme: "Convergence and Divergence in the New Europe: Marketing Challenges and Issues" We invite papers dealing with marketing issues in the transitional markets of the New Europe. This includes papers on marketing management, strategic marketing, buying behaviour, the...

The Doctoral Seminar of the EMAC Regional Conference is a one-day forum for doctoral students to meet their peers and leading academics in the field of marketing in order to discuss their dissertation research. All topics and methodological approaches within the broad field of marketing will be...

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 reply to the financial crisis, "Great Recession" and sovereign debt crisis, many central banks have pursued ultra-easy and far reaching unconventional monetary policies for several years. Yields on various bond calsses - including euro area sovereign bond yields since the sovereign debt...

The workshop aims to bring together about 25 researchers from all fields of economics to discuss high quality research with a focus on R&D, innovation and public policy. We aim at a mix of theoretical and empirical studies exploring the determinants of innovation and R&D based growth and the...