Topics: Asset returns and spending; Spending effects of unemployment events; Welfare consequences of social insurance programs; The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending; Validation of new spending measures; Consumption inequality; Spending effects of public policies; Insurance within the...

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis as well as empirical...

Papers on any topic related to finance can be submitted. Tracks: - Asset Pricing - Behavioral Finance and Household Finance - Corporate Finance and Governance - Financial Econometrics - Financial Intermediation and Institutions - Financial Markets General - International Finance

Theme Topic: Household Finance The day will commence with an overview of the Household Finance field, followed by the three chairs who will each give a “topics” lecture exploring various aspects of Household Finance research in more detail. The topics to be covered are: Unsecured Consumer...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It...

The conference will be organized in sessions. Moreover, in the afternoon of Thursday, 25 September there will be a pre-conference workshop on “METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEURO-ECONOMICS” with Antonio Rangel, Chris Frith, and Josh Skewes.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers in the field of Personnel Economics who are interested in the organisation of firms and human resource management in a global context. Topics: - Personnel policies in multinational companies - Cross-country differences in incentive...

Members and friends of the European Finance Association are welcome to submit research papers to be considered for presentation at the 2012 Annual Meetings. Papers on any topic related to finance will be considered.

We encourage PhD students to submit completed drafts of one of their single-authored PhD papers, or well-defined and detailed research proposals. Submitters are welcome to add one or two additional page(s) raising the conceptual and methodological problems they face at the current stage of their...