Presented Papers: - Capital and profitability in banking: Evidence from US banks - Bank Competition, Fire-sale and Financial Stability - Risk Based Pricing in the Credit Card Industry: Evidence from US Survey Data - Foreigners vs. Natives: Bank Lending Technologies and Loan Pricing -...

The aim of the conference is to better understand the nature of genetics and how it can influence insurance, its function and its role in covering risks. In particular, it will address, but will not be limited to, the following topics: - Medical aspects of modern genetics (gene therapy, gene...

Central banks are key participants in the economies and financial sectors of their countries. A central bank inevitably plays a significant role in the response to a major operational disruption affecting the financial sector. Pro-active business continuity management (BCM) is therefore...

Topics: - market failure analysis; - cost-benefit analysis; - compliance analysis; - embedding best practice within an institution; and - case studies applying the methods discussed.

The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: - the appropriate objectives for macroprudential policy and the various challenges to operationalise it; - a review of the various macroprudential instruments to manage network and procyclicality risks, and their...

Papers may be on any topic in or related to Law and Economics including: Antitrust and Regulation - Bankruptcy, Commercial Corporate Law and Corporate Governance - Behavioural Law and Economics - Comparative Law and Economics - Contract Theory and Contract Law - Crime, Deterrence and Criminal...

Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

This series of workshops provides a forum for the development and dissemination of applications of econometrics and other quantitative approaches in health economics. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is no longer available.

Topics: - Differences in mortgage institutions - systemic effects of real estate and liquidity spirals - real estate as an asset class - bubbles in the housing market - hedging of real estate risk - commercial vs. residential real estate - contract theory and real estate

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...