The topic of the workshop will be productivity and regulation with transportation as one of the applications to be covered in this single session, four day workshop (with additional trips organised to Masada, the Dead Sea and the old city of Jerusalem) ending with a New Year’s Eve party.

Papers in all areas of finance are invited.

The workshop will cover the following themes: - Marketing strategies for small businesses in a changing environment - Microcredit schemes - Women in business networking - Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new opportunites for women; the Internet as a source of information and...

This year’s Young Scholar Workshop will explore the history of foreign financial institutions’ and their relations to host economies and their governments as well as to institutions in the home-countries. Papers from new researchers studying banking and financial history are welcome on any...