Provisional program: - Yves Smeers: "The ambiguous effect of contracts on competition and prices in restructured electricity markets" - Per Agrell: "Coordination, Conflict and Network Investment Incentives among National Energy Regulators" - Nicolas Boccard: "The impact of wind-power integration...

When will the economy recover? Prime Minister Zapatero predicts the economy will bottom out in the second half of 2009 and recover by next year. How resilient is the banking system? And following government intervention in Caja Castilla La Mancha, will another bailout be needed? These questions...

Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non-experimental "field" data. However, modern, micro-founded macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, and researchers have begun to pursue such experimental tests. This June, graduate students specializing in...

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...

The three goals of the meeting, convened under an overarching theme Confronting Challenges in Defining a Collaborative Future are to examine business opportunities in the region and define strategies to compete with the influence of the Asian economies and in the wake of global economic...

This year the guiding research subject of the workshop is Climate Change Policies after 2012. The workshop will combine long lectures from prestigious researchers, invited papers by a leading group of international academics, and submitted papers subject to previous acceptance by the scientific...

Topics: Climate change and energy industry; Clean energy technologies; Design of energy markets; Distributed generation issues; Effective CO2 removal; Electricity prices and uncertainties; Energy and development; Energy efficiency challenges; Energy policy under Kyoto and post-Kyoto...

This workshop brings together leading experts and several other researchers on financial time series, enabling them to present and discuss the latest research and case studies on this important issue and consequently providing knowledge exchange [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters -...

We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical papers that study issues involving mutual funds, institutional investors, and asset management. Topics: -Performance evaluation -Effect of taxes and transaction costs -Mutual fund industry organization -Mutual funds governance and...