Theme: “Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects” The core theme of the conference is devoted to the new challenges that cities and regions are facing in the changing European landscape. The aftermath of the economic crisis has created a completely new environment...

The exchanges at the conference will combine the contribution of recent academic knowledge on the subject and the experience of both public and private practitioners to answer central issues of macroeconomic policy and financial regulation : - What role for macroeconomic policy in the management...

The aim is to stimulate further thinking on a theme of both current and future relevance to transport economics and policy.

1. Monetary policy 2. Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions 3. Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand 4. Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations 5. Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates 6. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 7. Credit, asset prices and...

The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

The themes of the conference are: - Financial Institutions and Markets - Corporate Finance and Governance - Financial stability and the macro economy - Finance and growth