The conference will have three major themes around which the panels will be organized: 1. Comparing Regional Integration: Divergence or Convergence? 2. Exporting Regional Integration: The European Union as Promoter of Regional Integration 3. Importing Regional Integration: Adoption, Translation,...

Das Innovationscluster »Digitale Produktion« der Fraunhofer-Institute IAO und IPA hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Vorteile moderner Informationstechnik durch die Kooperation von Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft auszubauen. Produzierende Unternehmen sollen bei der Einführung geeigneter...

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...

The aim of the iSME conference is to give more visibility and relevance to the internationalisation of SMEs, reviewing current trends, new theories, latest experiences and exchanging best practices. The goal is to provide a forum of communication between researchers, practitioners,...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Course Summary: The course (Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) will examine the global credit crisis, including the deep underlying causes, the more immediate fragilities in the 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...

Topics: - Organisation of international activity (trade, foreign direct investment, outsourcing) - Internationalisation and performances at the firm-, industry- and country-level - Investment decisions and knowledge transfers - Location decisions of enterprises’ activities - Patterns and...

Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

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...

Als Sitz der Europäischen Zentralbank und der Deutschen Bundesbank ist die Main-Metropole geld- und währungspolitisch von internationaler Bedeutung. Der Finanzplatz Frankfurt bildet nicht nur geografisch das Herz der europäischen Finanzbranche. Hier entsteht die Geldstabilität für ganz...