Scholars and PhD students are invited to submit papers on the following themes: - Global imbalances and current world financial crisis; - System risks of banking and other financial institutions; - Causes, consequences and lessons of the current and past crises; - The rise of economic...

Key topics to be discussed: - An aircraft finance odyssey: Will the funding gap arrive in 2010? - Are LCC models faring better than the legacy carriers? - Liquidity management for airlines in a troubled world - How airlines managing through the downturn? - Is long term commercial bank financing...

Topics; Panel I: Responding to the Crisis Panel II: A Resilient Banking System Panel III: Infrastructure Panel IV: Robust Capital Markets Panel V: Currencies, Inflation and Monetary Policy Panel VI: Private Equity Panel VII: Looking Beyond the Crisis

Papers in all areas of risk management and derivatives are welcome.

The Program Committee invites the submission of abstracts related to the theory and practice of forecasting.

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...

Key issues to be discussed include: - China’s role as a global sourcing hub - Facilitating intra-Asia trade and expanding global trade flows - Export finance developments in Indonesia and Vietnam’s infrastructure sectors - The role of ECAs in supporting Asia’s growth - The increasing...