Financial regulation is usually justified by pointing to market imperfections that regulation seeks to address. Yet all real-world markets are imperfect and the welfare costs arising from these imperfections create strong incentives for market participants to devise their own solutions....

The conference seeks to build a forum for reflection, exchange of knowledge, experiences, lessons, ideas, and information, contributing to the creation of efficient strategies for urban sustainability. The structure and approach of the conference is specifically designed to foster dialogue among...

Topics: - Responsible Management of Resource - Residue Monitoring - Smallholder Programmes - Certification Integrity - Social Practices in Primary Production - Aquaculture Trends - Linkages to Consumer Labels

The financial crisis has made central bankers question how business continuity management should develop, especially in relation to two questions: what are the new threats to business continuity and what can we learn from the management of the recent financial crisis? This interactive workshop...

The purpose of this conference is to further the understanding of entrepreneurship and economic development in different countries and global regions. An important objective of this conference is to deepen the research focus on developing countries and entrepreneurship. Differences in...

The aim of this conference will be to establish the role and position of Gender Relations in European Labour Markets and Welfare States and consider what achievements have been made and what challenges remain. This should enable discussions about future developments, Europe-wide,...

Agenda: River Till the historical geomorphologic picture – Dr Dave Pasmore (NCL) • The management of historical managed wetlands in the river Till catchment, the evidence for Culley’s water meadows – S Pullan FIEEM (NE) & Dr R Shiel (NCL) • Past, present and future river management A...

Given the long and uncertain lags in the monetary transmission mechanism, all central banks have to forecast the main variables that they are interested in. But academics and policymakers alike have found that inflation has become more difficult to forecast, not least because of changes in the...

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to illuminate a broad range of issues around the shaping of taxation policy in contemporary states, with a particular focus on European countries, but reflecting on the centrality of taxation for economic and social development in general. The conference...

The aim of the conference is to promote scientific research using enterprise micro data. The conference is a unique meeting point for producers and users of these data, such as statisticians, economists and econometricians, but also an opportunity for policymakers to get acquainted with the...