The increased use of the Internet, social media and other virtual sites for discussing and accomplishing work and organization raises both new possibilities and new challenges for conducting organizational research. We have the opportunity to view work in a different way, to access the...

Topics: - The financialization of commodity futures markets and their integration with other asset classes - Asset pricing models for commodities, - Investing in commodities and momentum strategies with commodity futures, - Risk management of commodities, and - Dodd-Frank and the regulation of...

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate among researchers and policy makers from around the world on the performance of banking and financial markets, financial stability and risk management, and the monetary, regulatory and institutional environment, in light of the recent financial...

This seminar provides financial regulators with a structured way of thinking through these issues and applying the ideas to financial regulatory topics. Topics: - market failure analysis; - cost-benefit analysis; - compliance analysis; - embedding best practice within an institution; and - case...

We welcome contributions, which will help advance visions, practices, technologies, research and theories to be much better support for Business and Management purposes. The scope of ICAICTBM 2013 will cover but not be limited to: Session I: ICT for Business and Management Session II:...

Topics: - Energy and Resources - Health - Information Technology and Telecommunications - Infrastructure and Urban Development - Manufacturing - Mobility - Science and Technology Participation in these meetings is by invitation only.

The conference aims to bring together leading researchers to discuss recent developments in empirical banking research. The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality research papers on banking in Emerging MarketsTopics: - The role of geographical and hierarchical distance in...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

The forum aims to promote communication and collaboration of researchers interested in various issues of modernization study. Here we will focus on five themes. - Modernization and world economy - Modernization and global civic society - Modernization and environmental change - Modernization and...

The aim of this conference is to explore the role of rising powers in the re-structuring of the global economy and the challenges and tensions which their rise may provoke. Amongst the questions we will be asking are: How might the rise of the BRICS impact upon the International Financial...