Topics: - Food availability; - Landscape of agriculture; - Microfinance; - Agricultural market integration; - Labor migration; - Agricultural product supply chain; - Technology adoption; - Rural development; - Agri-environmental regulation for sustainable development; - Land and water management.

Papers can be on any topic in Economics, Finance or Management Science, as they relate to risk and insurance.

The Summer School will provide participants with the tools they need to help shape new strategies and policies that deliver economic security, equal opportunity and social justice. An entire generation is ready to innovate for the work they deserve. Topics: Digital economy; Youth employment;...

The purpose of the Conference is to focus on a new form of capitalism under the pressure of the global change and to support the environmental and social sustainability of the economic growth, in an area in which the process of globalization is questioned and developed countries have to face...

Research Themes: - New approaches and new institutions for responsible and sustainable finance and investments. - The role of financial services and local banks for economic success in regional and in global markets. - The concept and procedures of retaining or establishing the link with local...

Any papers dealing with the legal and economic implications of the use of technology innovations to (re)insurance industry are invited. Topics: The regulatory implications of insurtech; Blockchain and (re)insurance processes and payments including smart contracts; Peer-to-peer insurance and...

The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing innovative research undertaken by central bank economists on the financial determinants of (nominal) foreign exchange rates. Economists working in central banks as well as academics and private sector economists and quantitative analysts are...

The seminar will be linked with the European Regional ITS Conference to be held at the same location (October 20-23) immediately prior to the Ph.D. seminar. Topics: - Regulation of telecommunication markets - Challenges of convergence of telecommunication systems and content supply - Development...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

Questions to be addressed in the workshop include: - What drives carbon prices? Is there evidence that firms reduced emissions relative to a business-as-usual scenario? Has the EU ETS induced the development new technologies, and/or the adoption of existing technology? - What is the relationship...