This year's Forum — “Trading into the Future” — will provide a platform for reflection on the multilateral trading system's six decades. In particular, input will be sought on the challenges and opportunities facing the WTO in each of its main functions, as well as on the challenges and...

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)

The Summit is the number one European platform for the restaurant industry. Issues we discuss are trendsetting and on tomorrow’s agenda. Together we have created a think tank to analyse the most important changes in the industry as well as an annual forum where we may all share our thoughts on...

"Contributions are welcomed from any field of the humanities, social sciences, natural and technical sciences." "Two categories of abstracts will be considered: A)Research and education in interdisciplinarity; and, B)Research and education in the scope of one of the 2008 symposium’s central...

The International Retail Summit is a platform for CEOs and strategy-oriented executives from the retailing, consumer-goods, service and consultancy sectors.

Tagesseminar - zum Thema Corporate Finance. Hybride oder mezzanine Finanzierungen mischen gezielt charakteristische Elemente von Eigen- und Fremdkapital, um deren jeweilige Eigenschaften situationsgerecht zu kombinieren.

Topics of interest include the following: - Did securitization go wrong? - Did risk management go wrong? - Why is liquidity so volatile and how can we measure its risk? - Was there really systemic risk? - Was there a lack of appropriate due diligence? - How important are conflicts of interests...

Details allgemein: Aktuelles zu Corporate Governance - Umgang mit (Raub)Kunst - Osteuropa (Geldwäscherei) - Finanzplatz Singapur - Regulierungstrends

Themes that could be covered include: compilation of data on new financial instruments; measuring the impact of innovations on financial market activities; and new risk measurement and management practices in financial institutions.

In the course we will begin by critically reviewing the most popular existing real and monetary models of the business cycle both of the real business cycle and the New Keynesian variaty. We will discuss micro data on price behavior and real relative prices across countries that is at odds with...