The conference aims to bring together leading economists, political scientists and historians to debate a key tenet of modern development theory: the crucial link between the development of strong institutions and sustained economic growth. The primacy accorded to institutions by eminent...

Papers on any topic related to finance will be considered.

Topics: - Modelling with high frequency data and market microstructure - Fund management and trading rules - Funds of funds and balanced funds - Advances in asset management and portfolio optimisation - Relative value and market neutral strategies - Modelling volatility and correlation - Risk...

The conference will be of interest to both researchers and policy makers working on biodiversity policy, especially natural resources in developing countries. The conference takes a broad interest in the area of resources, development and conservation, including but not limited to: plant genetic...

Title: More Regulation or Better Stewardship? Optimising the Means and Ends of Good Governance In our forthcoming conference we address regulatory responses to aspects of the global financial crisis. Reviews of UK and European corporate governance (Walker, Kay, Vickers, EC etc.) suggest poor...

Researchers with an interest in political economy are invited to submit papers for the 2012 Silvaplana workshop. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is no longer available.

Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be three Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers in the following topics: - Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics - The Economics of the Financial Transactions Tax - The Governance of Natural Resources

This conference shall creatively bring together academics working on a diversity of bureaucratic structures ranging from large public sector undertakings (PSUs) and development bureaucracies in South Asia, higher educational and local government reforms in the UK, health organisations in...

The conference organizers are inviting submissions of papers for an academic conference on issues related to recent developments in links between macroeconomics and financial markets, with special emphasis on the yield curve. The conference will be held on 1 and 2 September 2011 in Cambridge....

Although papers are invited in all areas of economics, there will be Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers in the following topics: - The Greek and the Euro Area Crises - Feminist Economics