New business models are emerging every day, but we usually take a long time to notice them. Who, ten years ago, would have thought that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google would one day turn the retail world upside down? Today’s start-ups are tomorrow’s game-changers. New players are writing...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Eric van Wincoop(University of Virginia) The class focuses on models of international asset trade and capital flows, contagion of financial shocks across countries, the determination of...

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites conference proposals that explore retailing and / or distribution from a historical perspective. Papers focusing on all historical periods or geographical areas and based on any methodological and disciplinary perspective are welcome.

The theme of the conference is “Linking Human and Technology for Sustained Competitive Advantage ”. Conference Objectives: - to provide a platform for those interested in the discipline of service management to share constructive ideas, innovative research findings, and remarkable...

This symposium explores the role that co-operatives can play in energy generation and ensuring sustainability. The keynote speaker is Pier Angelo Mori, who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Florence and leading expert on power co-operatives. There will be a number of issues...

Namhafte Referenten aus der Praxis werden im Rahmen dieses Events die Verbindung von Sport und Management aus verschiedenen Perspektiven diskutieren. Die Vorträge und Praxisberichte greifen Trends und Entwicklungen auf, die sowohl für Sportmanager, als auch für Interessierte neue Perspektiven...

AIEST is initiating a new conference cycle on “Advances in Tourism Research: Perspectives of Actors, Institutions and Systems”. Participants from different scientific disciplines and tourism related industries are invited to contribute to the following three major streams of discussions: -...

Objectives: - To introduce participants to a standardized framework for conducting global policy analysis in an applied general equilibrium setting - To provide participants with ample hands-on training with software that has been tailored to global economic analysis - To give participants the...

Topics: - Differences in mortgage institutions - systemic effects of real estate and liquidity spirals - real estate as an asset class - bubbles in the housing market - hedging of real estate risk - commercial vs. residential real estate - contract theory and real estate

The 2012 congress will focus on Public Finance, Public Debt and Global Recovery. A series of plenary lectures will deliver new insights into questions of sovereign debt and state default from a public finance perspective. In the parallel sessions, papers from all areas of public finance will be...