The main objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for central bankers, market participants and researchers in the field of economics and finance to discuss the most recent developments in access to finance of small and medium-sized companies. Topics: - The role of banks in financing...

Program: - Aktuelle Diskussionen zur Überarbeitung des Rahmenkonzepts - Umsatzrealisierung nach IFRS 15 / Regulierte Wirtschaftsgüter - Die Neuregelungen des IFRS 9 zum Impairment von Finanzinstrumenten - DRS 20 – Änderungen in der Lageberichterstattung - Reformbestrebungen in der...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The conference serves as a forum for researchers interested in the issues Energy, Trade, Industry, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Regional Integration and Socio-economic Development, especially in the ECO countries (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran,...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Topics: - Corporate governance – financial performance link - M&As and efficiency - Shareholders’ value maximization - Influence of executive remuneration on performance - Role of control in efficiency management - Insider trading issues - Transparency, accountability and misreporting -...

Der WHU-Campus for Controlling steht in diesem Jahr unter dem Leitthema Innovationen im Controlling. Ziel der Tagung ist es, das Thema umfassend zu beleuchten. Das Aufzeigen der unterschiedlichen Dimensionen von Innovationen im Controlling dient hierzu ebenso wie die Vorstellung konkreter...

The seminar will expose students to the most important current and historical literature in four core areas of corporate finance — capital structure, payout policy, corporate governance, and capital acquisition. This will principally be a readings course, in which students will read, present,...

In September 2013, the United Nations began to discuss the post MDG 2015 agenda. Global Sustainable Development Goals seems to be the new slogan. The emphasis in the field of employment is placed on social protection, skill training, better business climate (plus a move to large-scale...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with the keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics...