The organizers are seeking contributions to cover the following themes or related themes: - Environmental taxation: concepts and design options - Environmental taxes versus subsidies - The impact of the State aid modernization process on environmental taxation - The relationship between the EU...

We welcome contributions, which will help advance visions, practices, technologies, research and theories to be much better support for Business and Management purposes. The scope of ICAICTBM 2013 will cover but not be limited to: Session I: ICT for Business and Management Session II:...

Topics: - Energy and Resources - Health - Information Technology and Telecommunications - Infrastructure and Urban Development - Manufacturing - Mobility - Science and Technology Participation in these meetings is by invitation only.

2013 World Water Week Workshops - Science and art of water cooperation - The human rights-based approach to cooperation - Bridging land-water-ecosystem divides - Cooperation across and within jurisdictions and levels for good water governance - local to global - Linking science, practice and...

The first conference day will feature key-note presentations by leading scholars in the field. These presentations will center around recent empirical evidence and theoretical developments on the relation between expected returns, betas, and volatility. The second conference day has a standard...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

Topics: - Is risk management and governance sufficiently addressed by scholars and practitioners? - Are current financial regulations adequate to secure financial stability? - Will the Euro survive the European recession and the sovereign bonds crisis? Special Topic: Governing risk management in...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

The themes of the 16th Annual Conference are: Measurement and impact analysis of changing world monetary system on global trade Measurement and impact analysis of demographic transition and population aging on global trade and the world economy Trade, environment, natural resources and...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application. Related theoretical and applied work is also welcome. The...