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...

The Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance offers PhDs and young researchers the opportunity to develop high level skills in analyzing governance issues like climate change, biodiversity preservation, sustainable use of biological resources, water management, and pollution. The...

Topics: - Systemic vs Systematic Risk Measurement, Systemic Risk Factors, - Stress Testing, Systemic Risk Allocation Capital Adequacy and Procyclicality, - Contagion Model, Double Default, Bilateral Counterparty Risk and Chain Failures, - Network Modelling Tools, - Risk Concentration, -...

Topics: - Corporate governance - Takeovers and executive compensation - Capital stucture and bankruptcy - Mergers and acquisitions - Corporate governance - Private equity and corporate control

The aim of this conference is to take stock of a number of recent studies that aim at assessing the evolution of firms' financing during the crisis and of its consequences for their default risk and survival. Besides two keynote lectures by David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School and NBER)...