Topics: Algorithmic game theory; Algorithmic mechanism design; Auction algorithms and analysis; Computational general equilibrium and approximation; Coordination and collective action; Fixed point algorithms; Information economics; Knowledge economy and intellectual product pricing; Majority...

This ‘web 2.0’ offers various ways to use these opportunities to improve and enhance the data and information management of your own organisation. Most of these offerings are completely free of charge. Used alone or in combinations, the new tools may revolutionize the way development...

Suggested topics include: - Driving forces (agricultural development and economic growth; urbanization and industrial and agricultural pollution; enewable energy and agricultural development; natural resource use and sustainable agriculture development) - Institutional and policy aspects...

In the recent past, developments in asset and housing markets have attracted a lot of attention. Economic policy, including monetary policy and financial supervision, has been confronted with several challenges resulting from this turmoil. The conference aims to shed more light on the reasons...

Good Agricultural Practices are becoming more and more widely adopted with consumer demand for healthy safe and sustainably produced food driving their expansion. An ever increasing number of producers in more than 80 countries are choosing GLOBALGAP certification to fulfil this demand. The...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.

Das Tagungsthema lautet: "Risiken in der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft und deren Bewältigung" Für diese oder verwandte Themenbereiche können Beiträge eingereicht werden. Dabei sind methodisch-theoretische und empirische Arbeiten gleichermaßen erwünscht.

Thema: Interoperabilität: Innovationsschutz versus Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 1: Standards, Schnittstellen und Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 2: Zwangslizensierung: Königsweg für Innovationsanreize und Wissensdiffusion? Themenschwerpunkt 3: Die EU-Kommissionsentscheidung im Microsoft-Fall

The conference will be part of the 5th BMBF-Forum for Sustainability held in Berlin in September 2008 and will provide time and space for an exchange of ideas between actors from politics, science, and industry and services. The main issues of erscp2008 are: I Sustainable Housing and...

Die 29. Olympischen Sommerspiele, die am 8. August 2008 in Peking eröffnet werden, ziehen die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf China. Internationale Medien beleuchten nicht nur die sportlichen Highlights, sondern werfen ihr Licht auch auf die Erfolge und Probleme des nunmehr...