The NCCC-134 Committee is a USDA CSREES regional committee. This conference will focus on commodity price analysis, forecasting, and risk management applications in several commodity markets.

We invite papers that situate HRM within the wider social-economic context, from the local to the transnational level, as well as research that has an explicitly comparative focus. This workshop is intended to promote such situated or comparative approaches to exploring and explaining new...

This annual Chatham House conference, produced in partnership with FTSE, will bring together leading experts from business, civil society and government to discuss the challenges that will shape the 21st century. In particular, it will explore the outlines of a new agenda for business and its...

The Conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Migration and Labour Market...

Topics: - How do institutions affect the allocation of entrepreneurship towards activities that may generate violent conflict and activities which may constrain economic growth and development? - Do entrepreneurial activities sustain civil war and organized crime? - How does violent conflict...

Topics: - Sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and private equity ¨ The effect of governmental and non-governmental institutions on public policy, financial markets, and business strategy ¨ Design and impact of capital market institutions and securities exchanges ¨ Institutional investing ¨...

Although most scholars recognize the importance of understanding how new companies are financed, they have made relatively little progress in investigating this process empirically, largely because of the lack of available data. However, in recent years, some scholars have begun to examine...

Issues such as inflation, the credit crunch and loss of a confidence in the economy means this conference will come at a crucial time and delegates will have the opportunity to debate these key topics with some of the UK's leading economic commentators. Whilst the economic crisis continues to...

We invite submissions of papers, both theoretical and empirical, on liquidity provision by central banks, with an emphasis on recently introduced tools.

The conference aims to bring together experts in inflation pricing and hedging, inflation-indexed issuer asset-liability management, and macroeconomics. Particular topics of the conference could include: welfare benefits of inflation-protected securities; estimation of the inflation risk...