This conference is aimed at investigating the relationship between financial structure, corporate governance and firm performance in highly competitive and integrated markets. Questions of interest include (but are not limited to): • What are the determinants of the ownership modes across...

Provisional program: - Yves Smeers: "The ambiguous effect of contracts on competition and prices in restructured electricity markets" - Per Agrell: "Coordination, Conflict and Network Investment Incentives among National Energy Regulators" - Nicolas Boccard: "The impact of wind-power integration...

EABIS and IESE value multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions from Strategic Management, Accounting, Finance, Corporate Governance, Public Affairs, Organisational Behaviour, HRM, Operations Management, Value Creation and Entrepreneurship, International Relations and Global...

Papers are specifically invited on the themes of: - Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation instruments, taking into account spatial and governmental considerations; - Development of new, incentive-compatible instruments to conserve biodiversity; - Evaluation...

The Annual ESPAnet Conference 2009 focuses on the future of the welfare state. More precisely it will address paths of social policy innovation highlighting existing constraints, path dependencies and opportunities of social policy change. The conference provides a forum to address theoretical...

Main Topics: - Behavioral Law & economics: the state of the art and recent developments; - Experimental economics and incomplete contracts; - Bounded rationality, modularity and organization design, - Behavioral and experimental game theory: trust, social norms and institutions; - Law &...

Transport is considered one of the main sources of externalities. Important externalities are air pollution, noise, congestion, wear and tear, but also accident, congestion and schedule delay costs imposed upon others. It is proposed to focus the summer school not only on environmental problems...

Conference technical topics include: Air quality monitoring and assessment; Chemometrics; Ecological monitoring; Energy and Environment; Environmental human health statistics; Environmental monitoring; Environmental reporting and indicators; Environmental standards Environmental surveys;...

Main Conference Themes: - Motivation for migration and return: social, cultural and economic implications - Consequences of financial and energy crisis: a quest for a balanced economical development - Intercultural knowledge managment and culture identity in relation to migration of ideas,...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...