At this conference we will be exploring the issues raised by institutional and individual attempts to reconcile the desire of University teachers and administrators to manage the learning of their students, and the desire of many university researchers and students to manage their own learning....

This conference, in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee year of the ISI, seeks to examine the development implications of emerging fields in economics and to re-examine old questions in the light of new problems and new evidence. The goal of the conference is to bring together new research...

TOPICS: - Credit risk and market risk - Bank financing of private equity and hedge funds - Securitization of bank loans - Regulation of hedge fund and private equity - Credit derivative markets and risk management - International prudential regulation and bank crisis management - Macroeconomic...

In memory of the former Director of the Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute, Professor M. Thea Sinclair, this year’s conference is devoted to the economics of tourism. Papers are invited on any areas of tourism economics, with a particular emphasis placed on those areas with...

EC-squared is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics, launched in 1990. The acronym (EC)2 stands for European Conferences of the Econom[etr]ics Community. Its main aim is to maintain and extend an adequate forum for both senior and...

The 1-week training module covers important areas of corporate finance. It will cover both theoretical and empirical issues. It is aimed at finance PhD students working on any topic who wish to obtain a wider grounding than the specific area of their thesis as well as students specifically...

We invite empirical, theoretical, and experimental papers on all aspects of fixed-income markets. Topics: - Liquidity and Microstructure of Bond Markets - Relationship between Derivatives and Cash Markets - Inflation-linked Securities - Corporate Bond Markets - Default Risk - Integration and...

TOPICS: Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Statistical Significance and Economic Value of Return and Volatility Predictability in Asset Returns (e.g. Commodities, Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds and REITs) - Risk and Return of...

The purpose of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) is to bring together cutting edge empirical and theoretical microlevel research on the nature, causes and consequences of violent conflict. This year’s workshop will focus on the relationship between micro-level conflict processes and...

The purpose of this conference is both to renew the considerations of Robbins’s theme and reflect on the current nature and significance of economic science as well as examine Robbins’s own position from a historical perspective.