Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia will bring together different stakeholders, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and explore opportunities for implementing the concepts and requirements of the Green...

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics; - Current account imbalances and international capital flows; - Global monetary system and financial crises; - International regulation of financial markets and intermediaries; - Open-Economy Macroeconomic Models; - Exchange Rate Regime; -...

Topics: - Exchange rates and Exchange Rates Regimes - Commodities Markets and Prices - Econometrics of Financial Markets - Financial, Monetary Integration

The conference organisers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Debt consolidation, fiscal rules, debt sustainability, sovereign debt crises and default; 2. Fiscal and monetary policy in a liquidity trap, financial...

The focus of the workshop is to investigate the influence of cognitive and normative factors in the EU's capacity to meet the challenge of governing sustainability. Its focus is energy and environmental public policy-making. We therefore invite papers that examine the following themes: Theme 1:...

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....

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.

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...

Topics: - 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 Finance and Corporate Governance - Credit, asset prices and...