Broad themes of the conference are: a) Development and Livelihood b) Environment and Sustainability c) International Trade and Growth d) Recent Issues in Financial Economics e) Gender Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Development

The conference theme is Real Time Econometrics and will focus on forecasting, issues related to data revisions, and the econometric analysis of high-frequency data. Theoretical and applied contributions are invited and we particularly welcome contributions that relate the global financial crisis...

Preliminary program: Session I. - Coherency Conditions: Thirty Years Later - Generalized Method of Moments with Tail Trimming - Towards Identi¯cation of Shocks in State-Space Models: Application to Stochastic Volatility Session II. - Habit, Long Run Risks, Prospect? A Statistical Inquiry -...

In this one day course the international expert Andrea Roncoroni will examine practical issues that arise in the area of Energy and Commodity Risk Management. The focus throughout will be on how to develop models for energy and commodity price processes, quantify associated risks, and price and...

The lags in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy mean that policymakers must forecast the future path of the economy. Accurate forecasts are only possible with a clear understanding of the structure of the economy and the shocks affecting it. This two-week seminar aims to improve...

The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

Vorträge: Dr. Sonja Peterson (IfW, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel) Dr. Alexander Popp (PIK, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung) Sandra Blessin (BUKO Agrar Koordination). Das GIGA Forum beleuchtet kurz vor Beginn der Verhandlungen in Kopenhagen verschiedene Aspekte des Klimawandels...

Im Kontext von Klimawandel, steigender Nahrungsmittelnachfrage und Bioenergieproduktion wird Land immer mehr zu einer knappen Ressource. Wie entwickelt sich die weltweite Landnutzung, welche Rolle spielt die Wasserverfügbarkeit für die Nahrungsmittel- und Bioenergieproduktion und welche Rolle...

The theme for this biennial in "North by Northwest, South by Southwest, Canada and the United States: Past, Present and Future". All proposals should have a distinctive Canadian focus, but we also encourage submissions that consider Canada in a comparative context. We are particularly interested...