The post-war period has witnessed a dramatic increase in international trade flows and foreign direct investment, as well as in the number of firms that produce outside of national borders. The objective of the conference is to improve our understanding of the impact of these trends. Specific...

The broad topics include: Finance: Corporate finance, asset pricing, derivatives, market microstructure, financial intermediation, international finance, etc. Accounting: Financial accounting, disclosure, valuation, forecasting, earnings management, strategic cost, corporate governance,...

This conference aims to bridge the gap between different liquidity concepts and to stimulate an exchange among researchers working on different aspects of liquidity. To highlight the practical relevance of the papers, a practitioner or regulator as well as an academic will discuss each paper.

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...

The current level of hype about real estate bears a worrisome resemblance to the dot.com bubble of the late nineties. Financial companies tout no-money-down interest-only loans as a way of extending speculators purchasing power, and developers pitch new developments to buyers the way Wall Street...