Topics: - Enterprises and product markets - Labor markets and social policy - Macro financial markets and open economy - Public economics - International trade and regional integration

This new edition of the Lisbon conference aims to bring together large numbers of researchers, policy makers for a review of the Lisbon Strategy, and a debate on the economic crisis and the prospects or a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The conference will cover areas of applied...

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

Topics to be covered include: - European regulatory overview: Where are we headed in regards to the regulatory reform of derivatives markets? - How much business are CCPs seeing in the new market and what regulation is headed down the pipeline? - Financial reform in the US: What will legislation...

Theme: Climate change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options. The objective of this seminar is to bring together agricultural economists and other scientists working in the field of rural and agricultural...

Empirical analysis of financial markets and the information contained therein is crucial for central banks. This analysis needs to take account of the latest developments in financial economics. For example, recent advances in techniques used to extract information from the prices of financial...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...

Welchen Stand haben Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und wie wirken sie sich auf die Beschäftigung in den jeweiligen Unternehmen aus? Gibt es Vorreiter und was kann man von ihnen lernen? Der Workshop präsentiert erste Forschungsergebnisse des Forschungsvorhabens...

The Swiss Finance Institute is pleased to invite you to a SFI breakfast seminar. Speaker: Professor Xiaodong Zhu from the University of Toronto Topic: China’s Capital Markets and Growth China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there have been debates over the...