The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems.

Sub-theme proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following themes: (1) Passion for Creativity and Innovation in Organization Studies (2) Society as Context of Creativity and Innovation (3) Creativity and Innovation in and beyond Organizations 4) Creative Groups and Entrepreneurs

Decentralization of public expenditure responsibilities has spread in recent years in both developed and developing countries. However, only a part of these expenditures is funded by sub-central taxes and debt; the rest is funded by grants. Fiscal autonomy is further reduced by the fact that...

Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non-experimental "field" data. However, modern, micro-founded macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, and researchers have begun to pursue such experimental tests. This June, graduate students specializing in...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

The ECMS 2009 is the international conference concerned with state of the art technology in modelling and simulation. For several years, ECMS has proven to be an outstanding forum for researchers and practitioners from different fields involved in building innovative simulation systems,...

Methods of analytical and stochastic modelling are widely used in engineering to assess and design technical and information systems, like computer and communication networks, software systems, and distributed systems. The ASMTA conference is a main forum for advancing these techniques and their...

World Retail Congress is the most influential and highest profile gathering of the retail industry across all sectors at global level.

The IMEBE 2009 includes a limited number of special sessions by key researchers on the topic (Social Preferences; Psychology; Behavioral Finance; Markets; Emotions & Children; Game Theory; Gender & Identity; Dynamic Decisions; Neuroeconomics; Management and Markets; Microdata; Networks; Public...

Featuring over 100 world-class speakers representing the industry’s most important stakeholders, the 2009 programme will also be incorporating 6 new investor panel discussions to bring you the most pertinent analysis about investments made into the mining & resources sector. [gemäß den...