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...

Theme: Reinventing Business Growth Through Intelligent Information Technology & Optimization. Major thrust of the conference will be on current research trends in concept and application of various techniques in different area of technology and management. The themes are classified in two broad...

PhD students and young researchers in the fields of migration, diaspora, and ethnic studies, with particular emphasis on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), are invited to apply to the IMISCOE PhD Conference. Within the European Union, one of the identified emergent research areas...

Themes: 1) Case studies on innovative and sustainable microinsurance programmes and/or products 2) Thematic issues a) New distribution channels b) Claims handling c) Strategies to develop microinsurance d) Microinsurance solutions for natural disasters e) Insurance literacy 3) Scientific track...

Theoretical and empirical research papers in all areas of accounting, banking, and finance are welcome to be submitted for presentation. Attendance at the symposium is by invitation only.

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 Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is now accepting proposals for papers examining the links between trade and international organization of production along the macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional-legal dimensions.

The conference aims to shed new light on the uses of high frequency financial data in improved risk measurement, management, and asset pricing, including ways in which to distill large intraday data bases into manageable information structures. Examples of studies that fall within the scope of...

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

In the ageing society, products and services for older people become more and more important for the economy of the European Society. Long term care is one o fthe central aspects in the strategy of the EU and its member states to affront the ageing of the European Society. It is a challenging...