Topics: - Macroeconomic aspects of ageing and retirement; - Life cycle behaviour of individuals; - Ageing and health; - Institutional aspects and behaviour of pension funds and financial institutions.

For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

The conference will showcase research on these issues from (social) science and technology studies, and feminist and post-colonial studies under the framework of the project Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study (KNOWING, Framework Programme 6, www.knowing.soc.cas.cz).

The submission of research papers in the following fields is especially encouraged: - The Evolution of Retail Finance - Financial Retail Services Integration and Regulation - The Real Effects of Retail Financial Services

The organizers invite submissions for empirical and theoretical papers on the financing of knowledge-based entrepreneurial firms, on the influence of venture capital on firms’ ability to translate technological advances into successful products, and on the contribution of...

Longevity risk is an increasingly important risk for pension plan and annuity providers and, indeed, individuals to recognize, quantify and manage. It is not such an immediate or even as large a risk as, say, interest rate or inflation risk, two of the key risks that pension funds are now...

The Development Dialogue is a yearly initiative of PhD Candidates at the Institute of Social Studies, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The objective is to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and PhD candidates in different fields of development studies. This year,...

We welcome especially contributions that analyze the interaction between microeconomic financial structures and macroeconomic policies and stability objectives. We seek to attract high quality theoretical and empirical work around five main themes: 1. Contagion 2. Stability effects of...

Research Topics of Interest: - Risk measurement and management in futures and clearing - Sources and determinants of liquidity - Market Making programs and volume development issues - Regulatory issues regarding stock lending and borrowing - VAR and other risk issues - Credit derivatives -...

Special Topics: Lévy Models and Life Insurance and Pensions Minicourses: Ernst Eberlein: Lévy driven financial models Ragnar Norberg: Managing risk in life insurance and pensions Special invited lectures: Andreas Kyprianou: Scale functions and spectrally negative Lévy processes Uwe Schmock:...