Scholars, researchers, and graduate students, are invited to present their research in all areas of economics and finance. Papers may address growth and development issues in Armenia and the South-Caucasus, the emerging financial crisis in the region, regional trade patterns, trends in labor...

Preliminary program: SESSION I - Peter HANSEN (European University Institute), Guillaume Horel (Stanford University) "Limit Theory for the Long Run Variance of Finite Markov Chains" - Alexei ONATSKI (University of Cambridge) "Local Asymptotic Normality of the Spectrum of High-Dimensional Spiked...