The Conference aims to have intellectual discourse on issues related to international trade and finance and provide platform to the researchers for communicating their views on their intellectual standing of empirical research in international economics. The main thrust areas of the conference...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

Theme: Climate change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options. The objective of this seminar is to bring together agricultural economists and other scientists working in the field of rural and agricultural...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Climate change as a driver of regional policy • The challenges of low carbon economies • Developing and evaluating sub-national policies for adaptation and mitigation • Post-Copenhagen challenges for taking forward international and...

The conference organizing committee welcomes contributions that address visions and strategies for tackling these energy and environmental challenges. We expect papers which address new political, social, ethical and natural science advances in efforts to reduce societal energy use, climate gas...

The following fields will be discussed: a) Causes of Financial crisis: Interest rates, International Imbalances and the Great Moderation ("Minsky Effect") b) Trade and financial flows: Savings - consumption imbalance c) Macroeconomic Performance: Core and Periphery in EU d) Eurozone in Distress:...

Theme: Valuing Growth Trends in Development Finance A scientific understanding of the theory and practice of development finance is central to our understanding of how global financial architecture emerges and evolves across developing, emerging and developed economies. The recent financial...

The Symposium will bring together environmental economists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will provide a venue for reporting key findings from projects supported under the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as other research initiatives. Papers should address current...

At this year's conference eminent scholars and top economic policy makers will discuss the following lead questions: - Where do we stand with fair and measured regulatory reform to strengthen the global financial system? How to reduce the risks posed to taxpayers and to broader social...

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...