The organising committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

The conference title is therefore: From Critique to Transfor­mation? Critical Governance Studies in and beyond the Crisis. Topics: - Governance futures in and beyond capitalism - In and against the state' once more? Towards critical governance practices - The governance of science and...

The conference should lighten aspects of the function of offshore jurisdictions and their impact on global economy, e.g.: - Business models and instruments of offshore activities - The significance of the offshore economy for actual crises - The role of economic theories and economists in...

Topics: 1. Design and implementation of management accounting systems 2. Theory of management control 3. Optimization of management control 4. Optimization of management accounting report systems 5. Optimization of overall budgeting management 6. Risk management and managerial control 7....

Applied sessions on the challenges in investment banking -Marco Illy, Credit Suisse -Walter Braegger, UBS -Felix Oegerli, Zurich Cantonal Bank -Charles Murphy, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York Research sessions on recent developments in corporate governance -Marco Becht, University...

The Conference offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to Management, Leadership, and Governance to share their thinking and research findings. These fields of study are broadly described as including issues related to the management of the...

FMA’s Annual Meeting brings together academicians and practitioners with interests in financial decision making. The meeting provides a forum for presenting new research and discussing current issues in financial management and related topics.

Topics: - financial market incentives and bank funding, - International implications of the evolving models of funding, - the impact of different types of bank funding on the supply of corporate lending (including SME lending) and investment, - corporate bond issuance as a complement/substitute...

A distinguished group of presenters and discussants will address topics of special interest to plan sponsors, foundations, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Pension Managers, Senior Executives of Financial Firms, Plan Sponsors, Endowments, Finance...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Debt and sovereign risk: How to measure sovereign risk, public debt sustainability, sovereign risk premia, sovereign credit ratings; - Contagion in...