All contributions (quantitative or qualitative) on the theme of failure and survival of SMEs and entrepreneurs can be proposed, with a focus on the following non-exhaustive list: - Determinants of bankruptcy / business difficulties; - Failure and financial structure; - Relationship between...

Key themes: - The impact of microfinance in Europe - The relationship between impact and organisational challenges of microfinance in Europe - The role of microfinance in the European institutional context Papers addressing personal microfinance in Europe are particularly welcome. Papers...

The conference program highlights are as follows: - Pascal Saint-Amans (recently appointed Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration), Terrance McAuley (Assistant Commissioner, Compliance Services Branch, Canada Revenue Agency), and Michael F. Mundaca (of Ernst & Young...

The Efma Congress is dedicated to multichannel management. This year’s Congress will have two special sessions: - New banks and banking models This session will include case studies presented by senior executives of new European banks, such as Metrobank, Zuno Bank and Alior Bank. We will also...

We invite both theoretical and empirical papers on one of the following topics: Financial Risks, Bank Risks, Major Risks, Health and Ageing, Risk and Regulation.

Because corporate governance is at the crossroads of several disciplines (management, finance, law, and economics,...), it provides opportunities for high quality research papers. Papers that utilize any of a broad range of research methodologies and analytical frameworks will be considered.

As usual, all subject matters will be welcomed, but we would like to suggest a particular theme for the 2008 edition : "The FAILURE" This theme could include several kinds of papers : - the history of a failure - the consequence and the lessons of a failure - the management of a failure - the...

1. Monetary policy 2. Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions 3. Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand 4. Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations 5. Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates 6. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 7. Credit, asset prices and...