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....

Topics: - The role of different institutions and markets in the propagation of the financial crisis; - The implications of financial innovations on macroeconomic indicators; - Financial institutions incentives, their impact on behavioral drifts and risks; - The effect of corporate governance...

The conference is an opportunity to present state-of-the-art international research on major issues regarding, and related to, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Submission of papers on broad Corporate Finance topics relevant to Private Equity is also welcome.

This conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of corporate finance that include corporate aspects of the financial crisis and of financial cycles, the use of leverage, and in general capital structure and payout policy, security issuance, financial regulation, M&A, private...

Because corporate governance is at the crossroads of several disciplines (management, finance, law, and economics,...), it provides opportunities for high quality research papers. Papers that utilize any of a broad range of research methodologies and analytical frameworks will be considered.

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...

Topics: - Value-creation in corporate takeovers - Strategic bidding and target defensive tactics - Restructuring techniques and their valuation effects - Highly leveraged transactions. LBOs and breakups - Financing takeovers - Takeover initiations and managerial incentives - Mergers, industrial...