The aim of this conference is to investigate theoretically and empirically the effects that operational and functional distances from communities may exert on banks’ lending decisions, efficiency and profitability and on local economic development. Areas of interest include, but are not...

This call invites papers related to a broad range of topics to be investigated based on several types of surveys (business tendency surveys, consumer surveys, investment and innovation surveys, etc.) or based on the development and use of cyclical indicators, including methodological aspects....

This conference aims at exploring how the involvement of rural populations and communities in different kinds of markets (for agricultural commodities, labour, land, capital) has influenced the management of rural land in Europe. Micro-level, farm-based analyses are welcome, as well as papers...

CONFERENCE STREAMS - Methods, Approaches and Knowledge Transfer in Real World Priority Setting - Priority Setting for New Technologies - Priority Setting in Mixed Public and Private Systems - Values in Priority Setting - Priority Setting and the Interaction Between Micro and Meso Levels

The workshop intends to discuss ways to improve and implement fiscal indicators allowing to gauge a country's performance against the broad objectives for fiscal rules (medium-term stability and cyclical flexibility) and against the constraints arising form the underlying operational and...

THEME: THE CHANGING FACE OF AGRICULTURE

Key issues to be discussed include: - In-depth review of major suppliers to the Japanese import market - Power and steel sector developments - Supply and demand for thermal and metallurgical coal - Coal conversion and clean coal developments Leading Japanese buyers from major power utilities,...

Die Hauptvorträge behandeln Unternehmensstatistik: Melden wir nur oder nutzen wir sie auch? - Ein Beitrag zum Bürokratieabbau