This year's annual LGA finance conference will focus on future public spending and the implications for local government. The conference will hear from the Local Government Association as well as from a panel of leading local authority representatives discussing what this will mean for councils.

A primary function of any central bank is to maintain public confidence in the currency. The objective of this workshop is to discuss how the central bank achieves this, including efficient distribution and availability of all denominations, and the physical quality of the notes themselves...

The following topics are likely to be covered: • an introduction to recent research on exchange rates, in particular market microstructure models and the new open economy macroeconomic paradigm; • aspects of foreign-exchange reserve management; • exchange rates and the transmission...

Infrastructure Investment World Asia will discuss the following: - Opportunities available to infrastructure owners, banks and investors as a result of government initiatives - Partnership and investment models suitable for different Asian countries - Seeking alternative capital and financing...

The following topics will be covered: • the role of liquidity forecasting in open market operations; • an analysis of the central bank’s balance sheet, including currency in circulation, government balances and net foreign assets; • the appropriate degree of publication of the liquidity...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

This year, the Conference theme is Heterodox Economics and Sustainable Development, twenty years on. Sustainable development is the main challenge facing humankind for this century. The recognition of fundamental failures within mainstream economics and discontent amongst people concerned about...

There will be two tracks, the first focussing on economic theory particularly social choice, decision/utility theory, experimental work and economic theory in philosophy. The second track will cover particularly subfields where human welfare is particularly important including health,...

The summer school will include 7 theoretical and 3 thematic seminars, plus 3 lab sessions. It will be emphasizes that sustainable development is a process of learning rather than a static goal. Besides integrating the various dimensions of sustainable development, the integrated analysis of...

In economics, “relativity” is the idea that it is position relative to others that motivates behavior and determines individual and therefore social wellbeing. This idea has distinguished pedigree, going back in modern times to Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis, and even further...