We invite you to participate in the conference and submit theoretical and empirical papers on topics including: - Business models of financial intermediaries • Banks’ funding strategies in the aftermath of the financial crisis • Risk-taking and profitability of banks and insurance...

The organising committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Circular and return migration - The role of social networks and Diaspora externalities - Remittances, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI - Brain drain - Migration and institutional change - Immigrant integration - Immigration policies

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

Submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects related to systemic risk, spillovers, systemically important financial institutions, changes in financial regulation including the creation of a systemic risk supervisor are invited, especially papers covering the following...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

The workshop organisers particularly welcome papers that address any of the following issues: - Adjustment of unemployment, employment and wages - The roles of reforms and polices in influencing labour market outcomes - Tools for analysing the labour market situation

The TOM Research Training Network highlights the crucial contribution that foreign migrants make to the social and economic linkages between countries. The goal of the conference is to contribute to an objective debate on the critical issues, problems, and opportunities in migration trends. We...

On behalf of the IEA and Marketforce we are proud to bring you our 10th Anniversary Retail Banking in Europe conference - Europe's premier strategic event for decision-makers from retail banks, savings institutions and consumer finance houses. We will be researching the agenda over the next few...