Focus: Stochastic Volatility, Interest Rate Term Structure, Credit Risk, Pensions, Insurance, Portfolio Optimisation, Commodity and Emissions Trading and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

Contributions are therefore invited which fit with the following themes and which are based on an original piece of research and are potentially publishable. - Urban/Territorial Politics - State Centrism and Territorial Politics - Institutions and Economic Development/Growth - Regional Policy in...

Topics: 1. Introduction: Key Theoretical Concepts and Empirics of Political Economy 2. Collective Choice and Voting 3. The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes 4. Institutional Change and Democratization versus Persistence and Dysfunctional Democracies 5. Beliefs, Culture and...

The Conference will take place jointly with the 6th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (ERCIM 2013). This conference invites oral and poster presentations that contain computational or financial econometric components. The organization of...

The Conference will take place jointly with the 7th CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2013). Topics includes, but not limited to: robust methods, statistical algorithms and software, high-dimensional data analysis, statistics for imprecise data,...

Theme: Econometrics of Mixed Frequency Data 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...

The topics of the workshop are Identification and Inference in Cross-Sectional, Panel Data, Nonlinear and Semi/Nonparametric Models.

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new develop­ments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic research­ers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with panel data, time series and business cycles,...

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.