From the 1960s onwards, international economics and international business have been developing as separate fields. More recently, four trends that may lead to a possible convergence of international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have become evident. First, the modern IE...

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will...

The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of view. This...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems.

Course Offering Summer 2011: - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation - Structural Econometrics for Industrial Organization - Dynamic and Non-linear Panel Data Models

Efma is delighted to bring you a new Credit risk and debt management 2010 conference. Its aim is to provide senior level debt and credit management delegates with the right tools and solutions at a time of increasing change. With the latest research, industry insights and case study results,...

In recent years, Efma has run highly successful conferences on customer loyalty. The major changes that have taken place in the retail banking sector in the last year or so have increased the importance of retaining the most profitable customers. This year, therefore, the conference will focus...

Achieving sales targets remains a key challenge for European banks. However, there have been some unprecedented developments within the financial services sector over the last year. These have led to a considerable change in customer, market and regulatory attitudes in relation to how banks sell...

The conference will discuss various strategic and practical issues, including: - Customer-driven channel management: Developing the right multi-channel strategy for the next decade. The future roles of the branch and the customer relationship model. Building micro-capabilities within each...

The 2010 Future of Cash Conference will address the following issues: - Ensuring the robustness of the cash cycle - Convergence of euro-zone cash cycles - Optimizing cash management - Re-engineering the cash cycle - Cash substitution