Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

This is the ninth in a series of conferences on the applications of logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers that bring together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and decision theory,...

Papers submitted may be in any of the following areas related to: - Monetary policy - Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions - Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand - Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations - Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates - Corporate...

The aim of this conference is to add to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis, and to stimulate research in this area. Topics that will be discussed include: regulatory capture and lobbying, bailout negotiations, and consumer protection.

Topics: - Economic Foundation of Risk Dependence: term structure of dependence, contagion models, effects of cycles, links between real and financial factors, dynamic of demand, lapse and prepayment, long run factors such as longevity, global warming or demography, effect of life cycle for...