Recent years have seen an increasing use in economics and finance of models employing large datasets, involving the estimation of large number of parameters. The severe computational problems that these models involve have partly motivated the huge body of contributions on stationary and non...

The aviation sector is facing some of the worst market conditions in living memory. Although oil prices have fallen from their record highs, offering airlines some respite, the global recession has subsequently caused dramatic falls in traffic and declining yields, forcing many airlines to cut...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Health and welfare at the local and regional scale • Happiness and wellbeing: definitions and indicators • Poverty, exclusion and wellbeing • Social impacts of housing • The personal, social and financial costs of housing •...

This three-day intensive course presents methods for performance measurement for multi-input multioutput firms. Among other things, participants will learn how Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) can be used to decompose indexes of profitability and...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

The theme of the conference is "Mobile Technology and Broadband Application Developments - The Search for Corporate Value Chains." This meeting serves as a forum to stimulate and disseminate research regarding information and communication technology and the digital economy. Given the...

This conference provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on longitudinal data. While priority will be given to papers based on research using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the European Household Panel (ECHP), or the European Union Statistics of Income and...

The course will describe techniques for analysing and modelling time series in Finance and Economics. It is suitable for economists and statisticians with a basic background in time series or econometrics and it will also be useful for people working in other fields such as Geography,...

The Future of Utilities is now firmly established as a leading industry event, providing a platform for industry leaders to discuss the strategic direction of the sector.

This conference brings together experts in this challenging and exciting field, at a time when the government plans to consult on how to achieve the reduction in carbon emissions that must be made. The conference provides an opportunity to contribute to the development of government policy. The...