The conference is expected to bring together more than 130 researchers, policy-makers, social security administrators and other members of the international social security community. It will provide a unique platform for discussion and analysis on how megatrends such as demographic ageing and...

The theme of the conference is Cultural policy in a transformed cultural landscape. The cultural sector is in motion. The classic cultural institutions are being redefined and new types of institutions have appeared. The mediatization, including social media, that blurs the boundaries between...

The MESD’12 raises the key question of the role multinational enterprises play, in the dynamic sustainable business environment. Because of the size and scope of their transborder activities, multinationals are global environmental actors and stewards. Their corporate strategies can accelerate...

The Annual Corporate Finance Conference covers the topics of raising debt and capital in times of crises, private equity, bond issues, IPOs in local and foreign markets, securitization, debt classification, venture capital, reversed mergers, unrated bonds, credit, institutional credit, bank...

Main highlights of this year’s festival: - Two-day Maha Debate Competition on ‘Leadership’, Global Leaders Meet on ‘Saving our Planet’, Economics Songs and Skit competitions, Budding Economist on ‘The Global Financial Crisis’, - Inter-collegiate Elocution on ‘The Agrarian...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

Topics: financial risk management; asset pricing; portfolio theory.