The purpose of the 2008 issue is to compile last developments in Environmental, Natural Resource and Energy Economics. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcome from the following fields: • Pollution control (tradeable permits, taxes, environmental policy,...

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...

Main Topics: - Economics of Services and Sustainable Development - Management of Services and Sustainable Development - Sectoral Approaches

In the past decade, Fondation Banque de France's Journées have been an annual event featuring the outcome of previous research grants. This year's harvest includes three papers on the systematic variations in expected loss and liquidity, the impact of securitization on bank lending and the cost...

Retail banking is feeling limited within its domestic frontiers and internationalisation is accelerating. Big, cross-frontier groups are forming in a maelstrom of acquisitions, mergers and even new creations. Men and women are at work defining these new horizons, inventing new practises and...

Topics. - Efforts to stop fires starting at all, measures to control and reduce the scale and effects of fires once started, and of their impact on human life and health. - How are the risks and uncertainties going to change in the coming years? - What is the role of insurence in the eyes of the...

The world’s non-life insurance markets face growing exposure to catastrophic risk as well as rising loss exposure from legal liability, marine, aircraft and other coverages. In response, global reinsurers have raised significant amounts of new capital; and markets have responded with the...

1. Monetary policy 2. Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions 3. Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand 4. Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations 5. Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates 6. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 7. Credit, asset prices and...

Conference Program: SESSION 1 : INTRA-HOUSEHOLD COLLECTIVE OR JOINT DECISION MAKING SESSION 2 : AGE AND PRODUCTIVITY SESSION 3 : THE BEHAVIOURAL EFFECTS OF INCENTIVES TO EARLY RETIREMENT SESSION 4 : HETEROGENEITY OF PREFERENCES SESSION 5 : LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS AND ACCESS TO CREDIT SESSION 6 :...