The workshop brings together many economists from around the African continent and globally fulfilling one of our major mandates – to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The five...

NOITS aims to organise annual workshops with presentations by Nordic researchers and graduate students specialising in international economics. In addition, a few non-Nordic researchers with a considerable international reputation are invited. The network serves several purposes. First, it...

Topics: - China’s financial liberalization and global stability - China’s banking sector and financial intermediation - China’s bond and equity markets - China’s Foreign exchange policy - Onshore and offshore financial markets - Inclusion of the RMB in the SDR Basket - China’s interest...

As China’s importance in the world economy has grown, so has interest in its financial sector. Furthermore, the on-going liberalization of China’s capital flows and the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi will have far-reaching consequences for the Chinese financial system. Next...

Topics: - Key commodity sectors spearheading growth - Returning liquidity and increased trade and commodity finance appetite - How are foreign investments enhancing the regional brand? - Multilateral initiatives and priority projects - Analysing Islamic finance as an alternative model for...

Conference Theme: Managing and Marketing Organizations in an Era of Global Economic Uncertainty and Environmental Complexity

The lecture will explore the theoretical and empirical links between international trade and economic development over a wide range of space and time, drawing on models and ideas based on his previous work and that of others. Special attention will be paid to such topics as the spice trade, the...

Topics: • Chinese stock markets and stock price dynamics, including herding, noise trading, speculative bubbles and other anomalies; • financial markets’ behavior and their implications for monetary policy and regulatory frameworks; • models and empirical evidence that explore the...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

The two-day conference will span a broad range of topics, including growth, trade and finance for development; poverty and inequality; strategies for poverty reduction; conflict; and economic policy-making for development. Presentations will deal not only with current research issues but will...