Following last year's success, the theme of the conference is "theory & experiments." We are delighted to announce that Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz) and Matthew Rabin (UC Berkeley) have agreed to be the plenary speakers: - Dan Friedman "How theory informs experiments (and vice versa)" - Matthew...

The conference is targeted at quantitative experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers as well as academics. It aims at facilitating an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the participating organisations, encouraging knowledge...

Topics: - Foreign banks, privatization, domestic mergers and the structure of the banking sector - Assessing banks' financial performance and risks in emerging economies - Competition, efficiency and stability of the banking sector - Banks and the rest of the financial industry in emerging...

Authors are invited to submit theoretical or empirical papers on issues related to financial crises, particularly the most recent one, and to the potential overall stability and instability of developed and emerging financial markets, institutions, and economies. Topics include but are not...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the links between the recent crisis and financial globalization, broadly focusing on two main themes: 1) the two-way relationship between global imbalances and the crisis; 2) the impact of the crisis on the...

The DYNARE conference will feature the work of the leading scholars in dynamic macroeconomic modelling and provide an excellent opportunity to present your own research results. Submission of the papers focusing on the following issues is encouraged: - Model uncertainty and optimal policy -...

We invite submissions of papers on labor markets, job creation and labor market policies in developing countries. Contributions on Africa and/or by Africans are particularly welcome.

This course will introduce Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as a framework for improving an organization's ability to effectively deliver science and technology projects on time, on budget and to specification. This involves not only effective project management discipline, but also ensuring...

This one-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential aspects of project management for scientists and engineers. The course will draw on relevant case studies, demonstrate useful software packages and prepare participants to apply learning from the course in their...

This highly successful and practical course investigates the main theories and underpinning principles and relates these to current changes in the commercial and public sectors. A wide range of tools are discussed and practiced in relation to individual, group and organizational change. In...