The Conference constitutes an opportunity to bring together scientists from many disciplines to discuss the actual situation and future challenges of an industrialising agriculture close to urban metropolises. The seminar aims to provide a forum for reviewing the state of the art in research and...

The organizers invite submissions for empirical and theoretical papers on the financing of knowledge-based entrepreneurial firms, on the influence of venture capital on firms’ ability to translate technological advances into successful products, and on the contribution of...

Longevity risk is an increasingly important risk for pension plan and annuity providers and, indeed, individuals to recognize, quantify and manage. It is not such an immediate or even as large a risk as, say, interest rate or inflation risk, two of the key risks that pension funds are now...

For the academic part of the conference, we invite authors to submit high-quality research papers in the areas of asset pricing and corporate finance, with an emphasis on debt instruments and markets. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

The symposium theme “Systems Engineering for the Planet”, addressing the expanding scope of Systems Engineering application and responsibility. Examples of this expanding scope are Safety & Security, Disaster control, Resource efficiency, Infrastructure, Transportation systems, Climate...

The theme of the 2008-Conference is Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Chains and Networks. Therefore, the 8th International Conference aims to improve the understanding of: • systems innovations in agri-food supply chains and networks that need innovative governance, such as...

We welcome especially contributions that analyze the interaction between microeconomic financial structures and macroeconomic policies and stability objectives. We seek to attract high quality theoretical and empirical work around five main themes: 1. Contagion 2. Stability effects of...

The GRI Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency will include an academic conference organized in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam Business School. The academic conference will be an integrated component of the overall conference, therefore offering the opportunity for...

TOPICS: - Capital markets reform - Law, institutions, and finance - Banking and financial institutions - Private equity - Capital market integration - Emerging market risks and asset returns

Special Topics: Lévy Models and Life Insurance and Pensions Minicourses: Ernst Eberlein: Lévy driven financial models Ragnar Norberg: Managing risk in life insurance and pensions Special invited lectures: Andreas Kyprianou: Scale functions and spectrally negative Lévy processes Uwe Schmock:...