The conference program will include sessions on the application of institutional analysis to history, political science, law, and organizational behavior. Speakers invited to the conference include Bruno S. Frey, Kevin McCabe, Paul L. Joskow, Douglass C. North, Mark J. Roe and Oliver E. Williamson.

1. Macroeconomics: Unemployment - Taxes - Pensions - Environment - EU economics - Alternative Macroeconomics: (Islamic and Buddhist approaches) - Cross-cultural economics 2. Microeconomics: Entrepreneurship - Households - Profitability - Bankruptcy - Work - Innovation "How to make the right...

The goal of this conference is to present and discuss recent developments in the use of quantitative structural models to simulate and evaluate alternative monetary and fiscal policies. The conference will emphasize models with optimizing foundations that are parameterized to match features of...

At present there are plans for two "satellite-workshops" on September 20 - 21, 2005: "Workshop on nonlinear and nonstationary time series" in Kaiserslautern (travel distance 1 hour by train), organized by Jürgen Franke "Workshop on financial risk and time series analysis" in Munich (travel...

In response to the challenges of a rapidly changing and globalizing environment, business has been developing a number of innovations in areas such as products, processes, and even business models. Innovations in the corporate world are also taking place in the areas of organization (both...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Examination of counterparty credit risk, qualitative and quantitative analysis; - Credit risk mitigation tools and the role of credit risk mitigation...

Topics: * Stretch Budgets and Targets * Incentive and Compensation Systems * Balanced Scorecard * Shareholder Value Analysis * Drivers of Corporate Performance and Value Creation * Alternative Measures of Corporate Performance * Challenges in the Implementation of Corporate Strategy * Use of...

Sitzung 1: Regulierung Das neue Energiewirtschaftsgesetz - Perspektive des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums Die Regulierung des Energiemarktes durch die RegTP Ganzheitliche Regulierung - die besondere Rolle der elektrischen Systemstabilität Versorgungssicherheit im Verbundsystem - aktuelle...

The goal of this one-day workshop is to promote a better understanding of credit derivatives or modeling in credit and fixed income areas. The participants include academicians and practitioners with special expertise in this area. The majority of the papers will include empirical work. The...