This inaugural meeting of the Behavioural Workshop will seek contributions from areas which include while not being limited to the following issues • The construction of mental frames and heuristics to guide risk management of structured finance products, securitised debt and other...

Recent years have seen an increasing use in economics and finance of models employing large datasets, involving the estimation of large number of parameters. The severe computational problems that these models involve have partly motivated the huge body of contributions on stationary and non...

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.

Conference Programme: - Chief Risk Officer’s Perspective - Stress Testing in Central Banks - Reputational Risk and the Implications for Business Reporting - Accounting Standard and Financial Reporting - Globalisation and Free Market Fundamentalists - Accounting Research in a Complex Financial...

Topics: - Understand the basic principles and backgrounds of Islamic finance - Understand how Islamic finance can help you and your organization - Learn about the opportunities for you in Islamic Finance - Identify practical steps to market entry

The seminar will focus on a wide range of financial stability issues. The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: • definition of financial stability, and the role of the Bank of England in the UK tripartite framework; • identification and assessment of key...

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 MMF 2009 Programme Committee invites submissions of papers from academic, government, and business economists in any area of Monetary, Macro and Financial Economics.

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...