This year’s two-day symposium on Advances in Scale Development will focus on how to deal with comparability issues. The topics range from assessing conceptual issues (i.e. functional and structural equivalence) to ensuring validity throughout the whole process of scale development. Key experts...

The University of Greenwich’s Department of Applied Engineering & Management, Faculty of Engineering and Science is holding a 1 day symposium on the developments and interlinkages within the oil, finance and shipping industries with particular emphasis upon security issues and current trends...

The CSS Winter Symposium 2015 will be a three-day event consisting of: - an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science - an open call for contributed posters and presentations...

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all relevant disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research in progress – carried out with panel data (especially SOEP...

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research in progress - carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data). Each...

Welche Auswirkungen hat diese Situation auf den Vertrieb und auf die Herstellung von Finanzprodukten? Was bedeutet sie für den Verbraucher und seine Vorsorge? Gibt es neben der einfachen Flucht in größere Risiken keinen anderen Weg? Das 15. Zweibrücker Symposium der Finanzdienstleistungen -...

The theme of the forthcoming year’s symposium is “Living with Volatility”. This symposium provides a possible opportunity to interact with academics, practitioners and policy-setters and place contributions within the context of the ongoing Global Economic and Financial Crisis. It is hoped...

The Symposium will focus on Asset Management issues. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: Portfolio Theory, Portfolio Optimization, Higher Moments in Asset Returns, Asset Pricing Tests, Return Forecasting, Modeling Volatility and Correlation, Asset...

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) at any stage of their doctoral thesis, to present empirical research in progress - carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data) - and...

Das Symposium wird die politische Relevanz der Zensusergebnisse thematisieren, von der nationalen bis zur kommunalen Ebene. Die neuartige Zensusmethode wird zum einen überblickartig erläutert, zum anderen wird die wichtige Frage geklärt, warum eine Stichprobenbefragung bei Haushalten...