In an international and comparative perspective, access to the labour market on the part of young people is a complex issue with certain contradictory aspects reflecting the level of development of labour law and industrial relations in the respective countries. In the most advanced economies...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

Computational and financial econometrics comprise a broad field that has clearly interested a wide variety of researchers in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics and computing. Examples include financial time series analyses that focus on efficient and robust portfolio allocations over...

The Italian Society of Law and Economics welcomes submissions of full papers on any topic regarding the economic analysis of law for its sixth annual conference.

The main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for economists working in the field of International Economics in Austria and its neighbouring countries to present recent research. The broad topic of the conference is ‘International Economics’. This includes, inter alia, the...

The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. On this occasion, the Centro Ricerche e Documentazione 'Piero Sraffa', with the support of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, promotes an international Conference on Piero...

The theme relates to recent developments in econometrics when high-dimensional data are available, involving times series, panel data, spatial, and financial econometrics. We encourage the submission of original papers (both theoretical and empirical) which will help to conduct estimation,...

The Conference will be the occasion to present the results of a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2007). The main themes of the Conference include: 1) Innovation in business services at the firm level and its impact on firms' performance 2)...

The programme has 3 key elements, namely: Macroeconomic analysis and banking regulation; Moving beyond deposits - banks strategies to access funding and stimulate growth; Retail banking as a key growth driver. The key topics addressed in greater detail include: Macroeconomic situation globally...

The UK has signed up to a legally-binding European treaty requiring it to supply 15% of all primary energy from renewable sources by 2020. This is a huge task and the bulk of the burden will fall to the power generation sector, but heat and transport fuels will also have to make a quantum leap...