Focus: Credit Risk, Integrated Risk Management, Interest Rate Term Structure, Portfolio and Hedge Fund Management and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

The purpose behind CIEF is essentially to acknowledge the legacy to economics of Herbert Simon, who initiated the interdisciplinary research focus and broke down the conventional distinctions among economics, computer science and cognitive psychology. The last two played almost no role in the...