The main objective of the Symposium is to further research in the areas of finance, banking, and insurance, and to strengthen the cooperation between academia and practice. Therefore, we encourage the submission of academic papers from all areas including: - Asset Pricing and Asset Management -...

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - Sources of asset price fluctuations: fundamentals and bubbles - Asset prices, financial frictions and the amplification/propagation of shocks - Interactions between financial and labour-market frictions -...

The workshop is an opportunity to bring together young labour economists to present and discuss their ongoing research. The programme will include 10-12 presentations, two poster sessions and a keynote lecture.

Bayesian time series models have become very popular with empirical macroeconomists. This is because they are especially suited to deal with great number of parameters such as the ones characterizing commonly employed macroeconomic models. The latter may include many variables and may feature...

The conference will focus on the following themes: - Legal and institutional aspects of transboundary water cooperation - Balancing different interests and uses in transboundary basins, and the application of integrated water resources management - Protection of ecosystem and water quality,...

The reform process triggered by the recent financial crisis is gradually making progress. Advances are underway in the area of banking regulation, accounting standards, and market infrastructure (e.g. clearing houses for derivatives, etc.). A new framework for macroprudential policy is also...

An international interdisciplinary conference for management, accounting, finance and law researchers and practitioners examining how corporate governance contributes to value creation.

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite empirical, applied and theo-retical papers dealing with time series and panel econometrics,...

Topics: - Statistical significance and economic value of return and volatility predictability in asset returns (e.g. commodities, derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, hedge funds, REITS,...) - How do Hedge Funds manage their risks? Hedge fund performance and risk measurement. -...