In the past decade, Fondation Banque de France's Journées have been an annual event featuring the outcome of previous research grants. This year's harvest includes three papers on the systematic variations in expected loss and liquidity, the impact of securitization on bank lending and the cost...

ACE brings together those working on the economics of competition in government, academia and the private sector and provides a forum for discussion and debate of both issues and cases. It is a not-for-profit organization based in Europe and is open to all those interested in the economics of...

Topics: - Quantitatives Analyses of Media Industries: Markets, Management and Strategies. - Emerging Trends in the Media and New Media: Concentration in the Media Industries; Concentration betwen the Media and other Industries; Industry Meltdown, Globalization and Deregulation. - Audience...

The subject of the conference is "Empirical Models of Product Differentiation."

Retail banking is feeling limited within its domestic frontiers and internationalisation is accelerating. Big, cross-frontier groups are forming in a maelstrom of acquisitions, mergers and even new creations. Men and women are at work defining these new horizons, inventing new practises and...

Topics: - Index and benchmarking - Sample selectivity, options value, neighbourhood effect - Pricing of index derivatives - Smoothing and autocorrelation for the appraisal indexes - Automated valuation - Spatiotemporal econometrics - Liquidity impact - Long run index series…

Topics. - Efforts to stop fires starting at all, measures to control and reduce the scale and effects of fires once started, and of their impact on human life and health. - How are the risks and uncertainties going to change in the coming years? - What is the role of insurence in the eyes of the...

The world’s non-life insurance markets face growing exposure to catastrophic risk as well as rising loss exposure from legal liability, marine, aircraft and other coverages. In response, global reinsurers have raised significant amounts of new capital; and markets have responded with the...

Topics: - the evaluation of e-commerce and e-business - evaluating intranets and knowledge management - general evaluation methodologies for both the appraisal and post implementation of projects. - decision making processes for new investments - the management of IT benefits, costs and risks -...

Conference main theme:"tourism, mobility, and technology"