The aims of this seminar are: • to give an overview of the state of the art in measurement of productivity worldwide, • to identify major challenges for statistics with a special focus especially on the adjusted Lisbon goals and gaps in the European Statistical System, • to discuss and to...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Regulation and risk taking in small business lending; - Risks in trade credit; - Structured loan derivatives; - Modelling credit risk for individual...

The 2006 Summer Seminar is an intensive course which is designed to document and discuss how financial strategies affect economic growth and the role of finance in directing economic activities. Lecturers will present significant case studies from a wide range of historical and geographical...

The I.S.E.O. Summer School course introduces to some of the principles of international economy, investigating the role of America and Europe in the international economic scenario. It focuses on growth, on the strategies and instruments of monetary policy, on the structure and mechanisms of the...

To increase the effectiveness of the Ecological Footprint as a tool for promoting ecological, social and economic sustainability, the Global Footprint Network engages in the following activities: - Outreach and Community Building - Research and Development - Education, Training and Application...

Central banks are increasingly turning their attention to ensuring financial system stability.There is no consensus on how to measure the severity of such crises and their potential impact on real economic activity. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop our understanding of the links...

The aim of the Spring School is to provide self-contained lectures on current research topics in mathematical finance.

The Workshop will be divided in different sessions, focusing on the following topics: general financial markets; corporate finance and governance; financial regulation.

Original research contributions are solicited covering a variety of topics including but not limited to: - GRID Computing for derivative pricing - Risk management within a GRID infrastructure - Asset allocation with a GRID toolkit - Portfolio management with the GRID - GRID resource management...