The strongest, but also most volatile, factor affecting risk attitudes is loss aversion (“losses loom larger than gains”). It was given its proper place in decision theory by Daniel Kahneman. Most risks we face are new, with no past statistics available (ambiguity). This two-day conference...

This high-profile conference concentrates on delivering fresh insight and key strategies that will enable you to achieve sustainable growth and deliver agile support to customers across global markets. In three consecutive days, you’ll join over 150 service professionals from across Europe and...

Has the path to development through industrialization as we know it been exhausted? Or is the world at the dawn of a new era in industrialization and development? These are some of the questions that this two-day workshop aims to address. With the world in financial and economic crisis and...

Topics: - Financial innovations in mortgage markets - Transmission of credit shocks - Subprime lending - Housing and credit in DSGE models - Housing and the macro economy - Determinants of house prices or mortgage lending - House prices in monetary policy strategies - Lessons from the credit crisis

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, resource reallocation and adjustment costs, productivity, information and communication technology, R&D, market competition, exit and entry dynamics, transition and development, labor issues, environment, corporate governance, trade, and linked...

Given the depth of the current recession and the increasing use of unorthodox stabilisation policy the research agenda associated with the Great Moderation and the consensus it produced is increasingly coming under question. This conference aims to consider whether such questioning is necessary...

The Congress will address and examine the government's impact on markets. Under a new administration, there will be great debate over Japan’s fiscal health and policies. Japanese banks will also come under the Euromoney microscope to decide whether collectively they have the ability to support...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...

The three dimensions of stability - the macro, meso and micro perspective – are interdependent in that the one cannot exist without the other. This interdependency is reflected in the structure of the 28th SUERF Colloquium, which is organised in three commissions. Commission 1: The End of the...

The symposium aims to bring together Economists, Psychologists, Marketing researchers and others who work on Behavioral Decision Making, either in individual or interdependent settings.