After a long period of underperformance, economic prospects for Europe and her corporate leadership are finally looking up. Growth, competitiveness and productivity are high on the strategic agenda again, but how do you deliver robust performance and solid growth for the upturn? Issues around...

In financial markets, financial intermediaries act as agents of issuers and investors, and “gatekeepers.” This multiplicity of functions can lead to conflicts of interest. By performing its gatekeeping role well, for instance, a financial intermediary may have to forgo profitable investment...

Evolution, Darwinism and Economics; Natural Selection as a Concept and Modeling Tool in Economics; Cultural and Social Evolution; Naturalistic Perspectives on Economic Evolution; Knowledge and Economic Evolution; Models of Cultural and Social Adaptation

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The massive and steady progress in computer technology during the last decades allowed to establish a new strand of modelling in social and economic sciences. So called agent-based models or multi-agent models do no longer require to aggregate individuals to representative social or economic...

Topics: Economic Growth and openness. An econometric analysis for regions; International evidence on cointegration between consumption, income and wealth; The US consumption-wealth ratio and predictability of national stock returns: Evi-dence for the G7; The European business cycle in a redux...

Main topics ot the conference are the themes of Developing Synergies: ‘Facing Management Challenges Together’: - Macro Issues Impacting Management - Sector Specific Challenges - Impact of Technology - Social Development Issues - Management Development

In spite of their great oil wealth, the Middle East’s oil exporting countries are under ever-increasing demographic and budgetary pressure to generate economic growth and improve their long-term prospects. As part of this shift, the national oil companies are being called upon to drive...