Conference Programme: - Chief Risk Officer’s Perspective - Stress Testing in Central Banks - Reputational Risk and the Implications for Business Reporting - Accounting Standard and Financial Reporting - Globalisation and Free Market Fundamentalists - Accounting Research in a Complex Financial...

The 2009 Cambridge Symposium on International Manufacturing (CamSIM) will focus on 'configuring manufacturing value chains'. It will explore how leading firms are responding to the uncertainties of global supply and the current economic downturn. It will highlight novel approaches currently...

Theme: The End of the Pier? Competing perspectives on the challenges facing business and management. The emergence of powerful new countries in the global economy, the onset of environmental concerns like global warming, and the outbreak of corporate scandals and financial crises, all point...

The areas to be covered in the workshop will include the following: - Economic regulation of infrastructure industries (including for example: Telecoms, Electricity and other infrastructure industries such as airports, postal services, etc) - Environmental regulation and climate change policy -...

The outsourcing market is maturing, with companies re-examining their sourcing strategies, starting to outsource more complex operations, and moving into the next generation of contracts. This makes it an ideal time to examine what has been learnt from previous experiences, and how this can be...

As investment in infrastructure is ramping up and the pressures on assets increase with demand, asset managers face the challenge of ensuring optimal return on new asset investments whilst extending the life of ageing assets. Taking a long-term view of capital planning and developing a better...

The speakers are: • Marta Aloi (GEP, University of Nottingham) • Giovanni Facchini (University of Illinois) • Timothy Hatton (University of Essex) • Tom Ivlevs (GEP, University of Nottingham) • Willi Kohler (Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen) • Sharun Mukand (Tufts University) •...

Scope: The relationship of law to economics is commonly explored in the context of specific enquiries (e.g., competition policy or contract theory). However, a wider theoretical discussion embracing wider concepts (e.g., institutions, rule of law, legal prerequisites of a market economy) is...

CSGR and GARNET therefore invite friends old and new to a searching, international, innovative exploration of how global and regional governance might be made more legitimate. How should we conceive of legitimacy when it comes to regulation beyond the state? What types of indicators and measures...

Theoretical, empirical and review papers are welcomed in all areas of accounting, business and financial history.