This is the second conference in a new series launched by the Institute of Economic History at Humboldt University on quantitative economic and social history. This workshop, to take place annually, continues and revives forty years of tradition of Wolfram Fischer’s seminar series at the Free...

There will be a special issue of the JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE on “Markets and Institutions: Global Perspectives”. 1. Asset Pricing 10. Market Microstructure 2. Banking 11. Quantitative Finance 3. Capital Markets 12. Real Estate Investment 4. Corporate Finance 13. Risk and Insurance 5....

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The theme of the 2005 EIBA Annual Conference – Landscapes and Mindscapes in a Globalized World – is an acknowledgement of the multifaceted attributes of today’s international business. Landscapes evoke the structural and fairly objective aspects of international business, for instance the...

The implementation of sound quantitative risk models is a vital concern for all financial institutions, and this trend has accelerated in recent years with regulatory processes such as Basel II. The workshops provide a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques...

One important focus of the seminar will be on the opportunities for and interactions between artificial fish rearing and restocking depleted natural populations at sea. Key questions are: - what are the economic benefits? - how can substitution be effective? - which are the trade-offs, or...

Topics to be analysed in presentations include (but are not restricted to): - Political economy models of conflict - The effect of conflict on economic activity - The potential role of globalization in fostering a more peaceful or more violent world - The relationships between development and...

Multinational companies (MNCs) increasingly attempt to leverage organisational practices (behavioural routines / activities of stakeholders) across their international subsidiaries in order to improve the worldwide use of their organisational skills as an important source of competitive...

Konfirmatorische Faktoren- und Regressionsanalyse, Pfadanalyse, Multigruppenanalyse, latente Merkmalsanalyse, Logik der Hypothesentestung, Fit- Masse, Strategien der Modellentwicklung, Bootstrapping.

The goal of the conference is to explore the variety of ways in which innovative activities were carried out in the electrical industry from its pioneering phase in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While the electrical industry (including electro-metallurgy, electro-chemistry, and the...