This conference will bring together in Washington key players in the North American energy sector to address questions in plenary and concurrent sessions.

Topics: - Financial integration: implications for economic cycles, growth and trade - Capital market depth and efficiency: effects on growth and development - Availability of credit and capital market finance and firms' competitiveness - Financial deregulation and real economic activity (firm...

The world is facing a strong need for a major transformation of the global energy supply system. One obvious reason for this is the threat of climate change caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Another is the continuing concern for the impact on the environment and human health caused by the use...

For this conference, we are soliciting papers, both theoretical and empirical, from a wide range of topics in corporate finance except those related to corporate governance. Topics: - Capital structure and payout policy - Security issuance and primary security markets - Corporate lessons from...

Academic sessions and a panel of practitioners will cover recent research, and will debate the future of the hedge fund industry. We welcome submissions on hedge funds, but also, more broadly, we welcome papers that improve the understanding of the roles and behavioural of market intermediaries...