1. World economic outlook World economy in 2005; Creative societies, dynamic economies; Towards a bio-economy; Information technology and growth; Risk assessment and evaluation; Corporate governance. 2. Energy Investment challenges in the energy sector; Global energy mix and energy security;...

Conference Programme A1: Climate Policy, A2: Energy I, A3: Environmental Kuznets Curve, A4: Industrial Economics, A5: International Monetary Economics, A6: Education and Research, A7: Spatial Economics B1: Sustainability, B2: Agricultural Economics, B3: Valuation of the Environment, B4:...

The Financial Markets Group is organising a conference on, on the occasion of the recent publication of the first report of the Pensions Commission. Following the Pensions Commission’s invitation to comment on issues raised in the report, we would like to bring together a small group of...

Just two days after his reelection, President Bush announced that Social Security reform would be a top priority for his second term. The president’s commitment to tackling the "third rail of American politics" promises to be one of the most important domestic policy debates of...

Where Are Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal Prices Headed? At this conference, Global Insight's senior team of energy analysts and respected industry leaders present an up-to-the-minute view of key European fuel markets, with a particular emphasis on prices. We provide a detailed look at the economic,...

The two conferences will deal with the microeconomic incentives, macroeconomic implications, and political sustainability of intergenerational transfers, on the one hand, and the transitional costs and macroeconomic implications of funded systems of retirement savings, on the other.

The conference will provide a forum for discussing the relevance of the existing legal framework for transit, and future perspectives for using multilateral instruments to ensure unimpeded flows of energy.

The conference will focus on the distributional consequences of the public sector. Although our main interest is in the effects on personal distribution, i.e., on families and individuals, we are also interested in the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of...

AUSGANGSSITUATION Die deutsche Energiewirtschaft steht heute vor Investitionen in zweistelliger Milliardenhöhe. Die anstehenden politischen Rahmensetzungen hinsichtlich Wettbewerb und Regulierung, Energiesicherung und Umweltschutz werden die Energiemärkte maßgeblich beeinflussen. Die...

The theme of the 2004 Congress, Delivering Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Industry, captures well the sorts of issues that industry participants, policy makers and others involved with energy markets throughout the world are grappling with. Energy sustainability in...