The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

Conference theme: Family Enterprise Electrifying. Family enterprise and electricity share many features. Both power industry, commerce and global GDP. Both provide foundations upon which creativity and innovation are built. Both can short circuit and leave live wires exposed. The comparisons are...

Topics: - Modeling & Application, - Financial Risk Analysis & Application, - Real-Life Financial Decision Making, - Trust: Markets, Policy, Investment, and Regulation, - Sustainable Finance & Markets, Value Investing, - Behavioral-Finance-Based Technical Analysis, - Entrepreneurial Finance &...

Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID and NYU Stern School of Business are proud to invite senior and junior scholars to participate and contribute with a paper to...

The Symposium provides a venue for attendees to learn from each others' experiences; to gain wider exposure for their ideas, successes and start-ups; and to collaborate on activities that increase innovation and entrepreneurship in their academic communities. National speakers and esteemed...

We encourage submissions related to any aspect of the entire spectrum of challenges and opportunities facing the bioeconomy related to the themes mentioned or other related topics such as: - Science and technology policies; - New approaches for financing inventions and innovations; - The role of...

Topics: - Labor and corporate governance, - Interrelationship between wages, employment, and financial policy, - Risk sharing between employees and the firm, - Interplay between cost of capital and cost of labor, - Effects of human capital and worker mobility on financial policy and...

The 2017 conference will explore the interplay between the development of kids and their communities, with an understanding that “development” factors into key economic and social aspects of kids’ lives. High-quality and emerging research from multiple disciplines will be presented in a...

Conference theme: Education Policy and Research in the Post-Obama Era. Papers and panel (not paper) session proposals on any topic in education finance and policy are welcome. We are interested in all aspects of education policy in the US and abroad, including finance; academic performance and...

Topics: - Financial intermediation inside or outside of the regulated sector; - Securitization and shadow banking; - Financial risk measurement and management; - Financial stability and macroprudential policies; - Payments systems; - Household finance; - Financial market structure and...