Papers addressing the issue of innovation and the management of innovation are welcome. In particular we invite papers that engage with the fascination contemporary academics seem to have for the ‘new’: new knowledge, new products, new services, new ventures and even the ‘new economy.’

Lehrinhalt: • Die wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der globalen Ökonomie (Außenhandel, Währungen, globaler Kapitalverkehr, ungleiche Entwicklung) • die Mechanismen der Globalisierung der Produktion (Wertschöpfungsketten) und betriebspolitische Ansätze („Corporate Social...

The IAOS Conference Ottawa 2006 has adopted as its principal theme the subject People on the Move: Measuring Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts Within and Between Nations. The conference focuses on issues associated with measuring these aspects.

The goal of this 3 day workshop will be to gather researchers involved in this field in order to: - discuss recent advances in the field - create links between researchers working on various facets of these models - provide a platform for young researchers working in this field, and - point to...

Topics: - The basics in payment and settlement systems - The central bank and market infrastructures - The Eurosystem and market infrastructures - The development of the market infrastructure for payments and securities handling - Market infrastructure - issues of common interest

Key issues would include - how the economic adjustment process changes; - the role of financial markets in promoting and financing adjustment; - whether converging and steady-state economies face different challenges; - the challenges for supervisory and structural policies; - what types of...

Theme Embedding Entrepreneurship Education in Europe: Evaluating Effective Policy and Practice at the Institutional, Regional and National Levels

The conference primarily aims at bringing academics, researchers, policy-makers, industry professionals and students working or having an interest in any sub-field of finance and economics with a special reference to emerging market economies and institutions.

Because The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was passed only seven years ago, making it legal for banks to merge with insurance companies, Dr. Tomic believes this is a good time to discuss whether or not this new model is working in the American economy. A call for papers written by professionals and...

The workshop will focus on various fields of agricultural economics (farm management and structural development, agricultural input and output markets, rural development, agricultural policy, food chains, resource and environmental economics).