The aim of this 2nd symposium is to provide a platform for scientists and practitioners (from both the telecom industry and regulatory offices) to discuss current challenges for the regulatory environment in order to foster innovation and investment and to boost competition. The symposium...

One or two additional sessions will be organized by the Southern Representative. Abstracts for papers in the topic areas of gender, health economics, labor economics, and urban/regional are particularly solicited.

Topics: 1. Recent world economic and financial crisis: What are the impacts and lessons for Islamic economies? What are relevant policies to make? 2. Existing Islamic economic and trade arrangements (ECO, D8, PGCC, ESCWA,...) : current impacts, potentials and barriers 3. Perspectives for...

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 2010 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on Power and Politics. As historical social scientists and social science historians, we hail from many traditions and disciplines. But we share common ground in the weight we assign to historicizing our understandings of power and...

The 103rd Annual Conference on Taxation will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, taxation and tax policies; expenditure policies; government budgeting; intergovernmental fiscal relations; and subnational, national, and international public finance. The conference will...

Die Ordnungsökonomik befasst sich mit der Frage der Steuerungswirkungen, die rechtliche und institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen auf soziale Interaktionsprozesse ausüben. Es ist ein Forschungsgebiet, das insbesondere auf den Beiträgen der Freiburger Schule und der Constitutional Economics...

The annual meeting of the Southern Finance Association serves to foster scholarship, professional development, and collegiality among academics, doctoral students, and practitioners in finance.

The current international economic crisis has prompted comparisons with past crises from the last two centuries. This has challenged the social sciences to reflect on the factors that brought these crises about, as well as the commonalities and differences among them, and to consider their...