Topics: Consolidation of Banking and Financial Services Institutions; Valuation and Financial Modeling; Role of Technology Advancements; Cross-border M&As; M&As and Efficiency Studies; Economies of scale and scope associated with M&As; Basel II and Risk Management; Legal and Regulatory Aspects; Human...

We welcome papers in any academic field within accounting, such as financial accounting, managerial accounting, auditing, accounting information systems and international accounting.

Conference Programme: 1. Ecology and Economics 2. Economic Models of Global Warming: What Scenario, What Cost? 3. Certainties, Uncertainties and What They Imply about Action 4. Round Table chaired by Robert Solow (MIT): Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go from Here?

Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2008 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and...

Topic: all areas of Finance and Accounting

The November 2008 Carnegie-Rochester conference seeks to advance the theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and consequences of the "credit crunch of 2007-8" with a view to assessing the extent to which monetary, banking, and regulatory policies may have helped to create the...

The goal of this one-day conference is to enhance the interaction among researchers interested in financial intermediation. The conference will consist of five to seven papers; submissions in all areas of financial intermediation will be considered (except papers already accepted for publication).

The subject of the conference is "Macro-Financial Linkages." Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): (1) the role of finance in transmitting and amplifying real shocks, including international spillovers; (2) the financial sector as a source of (international) disturbances,...

The conference will provide an important forum for the interaction of different ideas and information between academicians and practitioners, in order to enhance the understanding of international accounting issues in various Asian-Pacific countries.

Objectives: - To consider major transport trends – both in large urban areas and those raised by a globalising economy – with a special focus on developments in Latin America; - To address challenges caused by these trends – for the environment at large and for human health in particular;...