Topics: - Quantitative analysis and financial risk management - Financial crisis and contagion - Portfolio management and optimization - Volatility modeling and correlation between financial markets - Emerging stock markets - Forecasting of high-frequency financial data - Commodity prices and...

The conference theme this year is Theory and Practice of Spatial Econometrics.Spatial econometrics encompasses purely spatial economic contexts, but also regional economics, economics of networks (including social networks and committees), cross-section dependence and endogenous interdependence.

Topics are focused on recent challenges to modern national economies and business enterprises: - Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World - Enterprise in Turbulent Environment - Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy

FOCUS: Pensions, Insurance, Regulation, Model Risk, CVA, Risk Measurement, Commodities, Emissions Trading and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

The workshop is intended to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss recent developments in macroeconomics. We encourage contributions in all areas of macroeconomics, particularly those relevant to an open economy such as Australia.

Program Committee members will take responsibility for organizing and chairing the contributed sessions. They will also provide comments and foster interaction across research fields. The Program Committee invites submissions of papers, which can be either complete or work in progress.

This workshop will bring together policymakers and academics with an interest in the implications of ambiguity in financial and macroeconomic contexts. Submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on the following issues are welcome. - Aspects of ambiguity, inattention, information frictions,...

This workshop aims to present and discuss recent and ongoing research in mathematical finance, which relies on weaker assumptions than typically assumed e.g. under the classical risk neutral paradigm.

Topics: - Reward in its context - Motivation and engagement in organizations - Reward systems

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...