We solicit submission of theoretical and empirical papers on all aspects of market liquidity. Topics relevant to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: - role of liquidity in financial crises - market liquidity and funding liquidity - the real effects of market...

Markets are the meeting place of demand and supply – this is one of their central roles. This central role is not accomplished without intermediaries, whose role is to mediate between the information asymmetries that inevitably arise. These interactions between intermediaries and actors and...

The conference will set the stage on day one, with keynote speakers from all continents covering targets and strategies. On day two we will look into specific options for eco-efficiency improvements in core domains of sustainable development. On day three we will go into the intricacies of...

Topics would include, but are not limited to: • The implications of securitization and other financial innovation for macroeconomic performance, such as the effectiveness of monetary policy and the amplification (or mitigation) of business cycle shocks. • The role of different institutions...

Topics: Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Econometrics.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

Topics must be related to cooperative game theory or economic theory, and its applications.

The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

The strongest, but also most volatile, factor affecting risk attitudes is loss aversion (“losses loom larger than gains”). It was given its proper place in decision theory by Daniel Kahneman. Most risks we face are new, with no past statistics available (ambiguity). This two-day conference...