The MESD’12 raises the key question of the role multinational enterprises play, in the dynamic sustainable business environment. Because of the size and scope of their transborder activities, multinationals are global environmental actors and stewards. Their corporate strategies can accelerate...

Conference Program Workshops: Workshop A: A Primer on Corporate Reorganizations Workshop B: Overview of the Canada-US Treaty Workshop C: Control & Acquisition of Control Workshop D: Foreign Affiliates Workshop E: Oil & Gas Taxation Fundamentals Workshop F: Taxation Employee Compensation Workshop...

The conference, as a major knowledge consolidation initiative, is structured around three key themes and under each of these a number of session topics are listed. We would like to invite proposals (panels, roundtables, sessions, presentations, etc.) that address these topics: - Key Theme 1:...

The World Cocoa Conference is designed for anyone with a stake in the industry. Covering the entire value chain from farmer to chocolate producer and every step in between, the World Cocoa Conference the event to attend if you are involved in the cocoa industry.

This annual conference provides a forum for researchers to share their work on any aspect of Econometrics. Researchers, students and professionals working in related fields are invited to attend the conference. Topics: - Econometric Theory - Applied Econometrics - Statistical methods with...

"[The conference] will foster interdisciplinary discussions around medicine, literature and the digital humanities. The goal is to bring together IT experts, physicians and literary scholars in order to work on the concrete elaboration of a digital database in the field of medicine and...

The payments industry is facing challenges from all sides: competition and pricing pressures; new regulations; continuing macroeconomic uncertainty; and changing customer demands. Banks need to be flexible and agile to take advantage of the huge potential gains available from the payments...

The emerging ‘advanced payments’ sector includes the convergence of mobile, Internet and tablet payments. These represent exciting and lucrative new revenue channels. Industry leaders have already started to grasp this opportunity and are focusing on emerging mobile and NFC innovation and...

Recent events have underlined the importance of cash as a refuge, as cash in circulation peaked at the height of the financial crisis. Since then, demand has remained strong and there has been no sign of repatriation of those banknotes. At the same time, the infrastructure of the cash cycle is...

Among the various themes that could be addressed, the organisers would particularly welcome contributions related to the Walrasian heritage. Topics: - The theory of public goods - The theory of economic growth - The theory of capital - Computable general equilibrium - Welfare economics [gemäß...