Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

Workshop topics include: - The concept and measurement of entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries. - The channels through which entrepreneurship drives economic structural transformation and growth and institutional development. - The advantages and disadvantages of small, micro,...

A number of countries are cited more often than others as examples of development success. These countries are believed to have policies and institutions that could be instructive to less successful countries both within their own regions, and elsewhere in the developing world. As such they...

We encourage research on the importance of behavioural biases and expectations formation and behavioural bi-ases for business cycle fluctuations and invite papers on the implications of these biases and of alternative expec-tations formation mechanisms for modelling business cycle fluctuations...

China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) have an important impact on the global economy through growth and trade effects, and their roles in financial markets. This conference focuses on the inter-linkages between CIBS and the global economy, including the impact of these economies on their...

Topics: · fragility concepts and measures · trade and financial shocks · weather and other environmental shocks · state failure and governance in fragile states · household vulnerability and fragile groups · poverty dynamics and economic insecurity · strategies for dealing with economic...