Following last year's success, the theme of the conference is "theory & experiments." We are delighted to announce that Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz) and Matthew Rabin (UC Berkeley) have agreed to be the plenary speakers: - Dan Friedman "How theory informs experiments (and vice versa)" - Matthew...

The conference is targeted at quantitative experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers as well as academics. It aims at facilitating an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the participating organisations, encouraging knowledge...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the links between the recent crisis and financial globalization, broadly focusing on two main themes: 1) the two-way relationship between global imbalances and the crisis; 2) the impact of the crisis on the...

We invite submissions of papers on labor markets, job creation and labor market policies in developing countries. Contributions on Africa and/or by Africans are particularly welcome.

This course will introduce Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as a framework for improving an organization's ability to effectively deliver science and technology projects on time, on budget and to specification. This involves not only effective project management discipline, but also ensuring...

This one-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential aspects of project management for scientists and engineers. The course will draw on relevant case studies, demonstrate useful software packages and prepare participants to apply learning from the course in their...

This highly successful and practical course investigates the main theories and underpinning principles and relates these to current changes in the commercial and public sectors. A wide range of tools are discussed and practiced in relation to individual, group and organizational change. In...

This will be an intensive day filled with a wide range of strategies and tactics for achieving higher levels of performance from existing resources. It will systematically consider each of the stages of the KM cycle (vision and search, generation, acquisition, capture, transformation, transfer,...

We welcome papers on International Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance that address issues of relevance for the economies of Latin America. Some topics of special interest are: • The 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis and its effects on emerging economies • Macroeconomic management of terms of...

This 9th annual Darden International Finance Conference seeks to address international issues concerning access to capital. In all types of economies, households and firms are at times constrained in their ability to attract outside capital. The conference will explore country- and...