In an international and comparative perspective, access to the labour market on the part of young people is a complex issue with certain contradictory aspects reflecting the level of development of labour law and industrial relations in the respective countries. In the most advanced economies...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The Conference will be the occasion to present the results of a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2007). The main themes of the Conference include: 1) Innovation in business services at the firm level and its impact on firms' performance 2)...

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...

The conference will discuss various strategic and practical issues, including: - Customer-driven channel management: Developing the right multi-channel strategy for the next decade. The future roles of the branch and the customer relationship model. Building micro-capabilities within each...

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 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

The DARES conference aims at presenting the lessons of new economic research on the employment of older workers carried out in several countries, including France. The conference will gather experts from the academic community (France, Europe and the United States) who will describe the main...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Default risk, concentration risk, contagion risk, systemic risk; - Large portfolios ,granularity adjustment; - Pricing derivatives written on...