In recent years, Efma has run highly successful conferences on customer loyalty. The major changes that have taken place in the retail banking sector in the last year or so have increased the importance of retaining the most profitable customers. This year, therefore, the conference will focus...

Achieving sales targets remains a key challenge for European banks. However, there have been some unprecedented developments within the financial services sector over the last year. These have led to a considerable change in customer, market and regulatory attitudes in relation to how banks sell...

Suitable research questions for submissions include (but are not limited to): - How do the dynamics of labor market variables vary across countries and what explains these differences? - How have labor market dynamics changed over time, e.g. with the recent financial crisis? - How have changes...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...

The 2010 Future of Cash Conference will address the following issues: - Ensuring the robustness of the cash cycle - Convergence of euro-zone cash cycles - Optimizing cash management - Re-engineering the cash cycle - Cash substitution

This year’s conference will focus on the following topical aspects: - Traditional vs new distribution channels. Most insurance contracts are still distributed through traditional channels. But what is the future for new channels, such as direct insurance, which are increasing in popularity –...

Course Offering Summer 2010: - Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Microeconometrics Lab - Policy Evaluation: Estimating Average, Marginal, and Policy-Relevant Effects of Interventions -Dynamic Panel Data Models and...

The Zvi Griliches Research Summer School in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. Course...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor, micro-labor and managerial-labor contexts. In each...