The market for savings, investments and pensions is fast evolving with developments in distribution and advice, new opportunities in the retirement market and the implications of the pensions reform agenda. The Centre for Future Studies' 4th Annual The Savings Market conference tackles these...

As investment in infrastructure is ramping up and the pressures on assets increase with demand, asset managers face the challenge of ensuring optimal return on new asset investments whilst extending the life of ageing assets. Taking a long-term view of capital planning and developing a better...

With the prospect of liberalization throughout the European energy markets, coupled with the increasing emphasis on climate change obligations and emissions targets, energy companies across Europe must make tough decisions and forge the right strategies if future profitability and security of...

This event comes at a time when the competitive landscape for exchanges is rapidly changing. As regulatory developments and evolving technologies facilitate the growth of new competing trading venues, this inaugural conference will ask how exchanges can compete effectively to add value for...

Building on the success of our 'Government Efficiency' conference series, this event will bring together leaders from across the public sector to discuss and debate solutions to the continuing challenge of providing world-class public services under increasingly tight budgets. Case studies will...

With movement towards a low carbon economy gathering speed, coupled with the release of the Energy White Paper in May, energy companies must make tough decisions and forge the right strategies if future profitability and security of supply is to be ensured. The IEA's market-leading 'The Energy...

We would like to invite papers analyzing the implications of heterogeneity for macroeconomics. This would ideally combine both a theoretical/methodological contribution with some empirical work. The focus will be on three areas in particular: firm level heterogeneity in terms of productivity,...

This session will focus on the role that families, and modeling households in more detail than what is standard in macroeconomics, play in determining aggregate outcomes. This includes, but is not limited to, issues related to fertility, marriage and divorce, female labor supply, home...

We will focus on work looking at the organization of firms – for example issues such as the distribution of decision making authority within firms, the hierarchical structure of firms, information flows with firms, management systems, ownership structure of firms or any other organizational...

This session will bring together scholars undertaking theory-based empirical research in all fields of microeconomics - Labor Economics, Industrial Organization (IO), Public Finance, Environmental Economics and Urban Economics. Recent advances in econometric techniques and increases in...