Taxation always provokes costs besides the tax payments themthemselves.These costs are either administrative costs of the financial authorities or compliance costs of the taxpayers. The conference will deal with recent approaches of selected countries in addressing the compliance cost issue...

The ongoing integration process of global financial markets introduces a necessity to carry on research on forecasting and decision-making in emerging and developed financial markets within the framework of their macroeconomic environment. We welcome high quality papers that use up-to-date...

The focus of this year’s symposium is on “real assets” such as real estate, commodities, etc. In particular we invite empirical and theoretical research on: the risk-return characteristics of real assets, return prediction in real asset markets, alternative instruments and investment...