Topics: - Asset allocation and debt behaviour over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress, and default decisions - Behavioural approaches to household finance - Financial literacy and financial education programs - Trust,...

The main themes of the conference can be summarized in the following categories: Circular Economy, Zero waste management, Eco–Innovation, Eco–Design/Design for Sustainability, Eco–Efficiency, Sustainable/Smart Cities, Advances in Sustainable Consumption & Lifestyles, Sustainability in...

Academics, market practitioners, and government agencies (particularly central banks) are especially concerned that fluctuations in real estate markets could affect the financial stability through many channels. They include (but not limited to): - wealth effect of households; - collateral...

The summer school "Experimental Auctions: Theory and Applications in Food Marketing and Consumer Preferences Analysis" is aimed at learning the fundamentals and the recent advances of experimental auctions. It will provide the appropriate techniques to construct an experimental design, with...

The theme of AP-ACR 2015 is “Vibrant Integration”. Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in digital technologies and their commercial applications. Such developments have unavoidably brought substantial changes to consumer behavior, which have been re-shaping consumer...

The principal purpose of this mid-term conference will be to explore the various social impacts of the Eurozone debt crisis. Specifically, papers, power-point presentations and works in progress are invited on the following topics: - The Political-economy of the EZ Crisis - The EZ Crisis,...

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...

This annual conference serves as a forum for academic scholars from diverse disciplines and research practitioners to share the best available research on both consumer and firm behavior related to China and India. Research on other emerging markets that help gain insights about the Chinese and...

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...