A major part of the conference will be devoted to: “Emerging markets and emerging asset classes” Relevant sub-topics of emerging asset classes include: - carbon trades - climate - art - volatility - infrastructure Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit...

Mehrtägiges Seminar in Cadenabbia zum Thema Energiesicherheit. Bis zum Jahr 2050 soll die Stromversorgung in Deutschland im Wesentlichen durch erneuerbare Energien gedeckt sein. Für den energieintensiven Industriestandort Deutschland stellt dies eine Herausforderung dar. Die Sicherung der...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Debt and sovereign risk: How to measure sovereign risk, public debt sustainability, sovereign risk premia, sovereign credit ratings; - Contagion in...

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...

This new workshop series brings together researchers interested in studying what happens inside firms and other organizations. It covers areas such as: - Personnel economics - Organizational economics - Management and productivity - Incentives and contracts We welcome theory, empirics, and...

The Conference aims at providing a forum for an analysis of the new developments and a new vision of the future. Recent events - such as the conflicts within several North African and Middle East oil and gas-exporting countries, and the nuclear disaster in Japan - have added elements of...

This symposium explores the role that co-operatives can play in energy generation and ensuring sustainability. The keynote speaker is Pier Angelo Mori, who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Florence and leading expert on power co-operatives. There will be a number of issues...

The purpose of this workshop is to further contribute to this theoretical work but also to the empirical and numerical analyses in the field. We will therefore especially invite contributions dealing with - the theoretical analysis of supply reactions to climate policy, - new approaches to...

The following non-exhaustive list of topics would be particular welcome: - Theoretical and empirical analysis of taxes on the financial sector - Analysis of interactions and trade-offs between regulation and taxation - Effects of financial sector taxation on the macro economy and financial...

In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...