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....

Achieving sales targets remains a key challenge for European banks. However, there have been some unprecedented developments within the financial services sector over the last year. These have led to a considerable change in customer, market and regulatory attitudes in relation to how banks sell...

The Ukrainian Banking Forum is a unique opportunity to meet with leading Ukrainian and international bankers, analysts and economists and banking regulators - all under one roof.

The 2010 Future of Cash Conference will address the following issues: - Ensuring the robustness of the cash cycle - Convergence of euro-zone cash cycles - Optimizing cash management - Re-engineering the cash cycle - Cash substitution

This year’s conference will focus on the following topical aspects: - Traditional vs new distribution channels. Most insurance contracts are still distributed through traditional channels. But what is the future for new channels, such as direct insurance, which are increasing in popularity –...

The theme of the conference is ‘Improving dialog between the industry, academia, investors and governments’. The ICEP 2010 is a major international event for researchers, academics, industry and banking executives and experts, government policymakers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...

Topics relevant to time use research: Children, youth; Child and elder care; Communication and media; Couple (intra-household allocation, bargaining, division of labor, time together); Data collection & quality; Food and eating; Free time and leisure; Health; Housework/household production; Local...

Recent research has shown that trust and civic spirit influence economic performance, but that economic performance also influences social values. In particular, it appears that civic spirit and trust are essential components of the efficiency of the welfare state. On the other hand, the quality...

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 Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.); Local Public Economics and...