The conference has the following thrust areas: Testing trade theories; Trade indices; Facilitation Mechanisms for International Trade; Regional Economic Integration; Tariff and Non-tariff barriers; Firm level issues in international business (e.g. internationalization of business); Trade Related...

Themes: Green Growth, Environment and Sustainable Development; Millennium Development Goals and Environment; Human Welfare Impacts of the Environmental Changes; Economic Development and Environmental Degradation; Pollution, Climate Change and Impacts; Green Accounting, Environmental Valuation...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

The conference will focus on the causes and consequences of global imbalances. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, international risk-sharing and portfolio choices, current account and international investment position dynamics, international asset pricing and valuation...

This 2-day conference will combine high-profile keynote speakers with academic sessions focusing on different aspects of integration and a round table discussion on the future of European integration. Topics: Financial, monetary, and fiscal integration; Optimum Currency Areas; European banking...

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

Topics: -Measurement, modelling and forecasting of correlation and volatility -Theory and Applications in: Banking; Stock and Bond Markets; Commodity Markets; Derivatives; Corporate Finance; Macroeconomic Modelling; International Finance; Insurance.

The conference will favour theoretical contributions, but also welcomes original applied studies showing explicit links with the analysis of sustainable development. All geographical areas are eligible: North and south, urban and rural, coastal and maritime, are all considered.

Topics of interest include applications of game theory to: - Electricity and gas (market design, investment decisions, imperfect competition models, regulation, etc.) - Oil industry (international markets, competition in retail markets, etc.) - Resources (fisheries, renewable and non renewable...