The conference convenes financial economists and accounting scholars, practitioners and students from around the US to explore emerging concepts and themes in finance and accounting, with a special focus on the intersection of the two fields of research. The one-and-a-half-day conference is...

This workshop will be framed around how we should fundamentally understand welfare theory, in the wake of findings from behavioural and experimental microeconomics, as an enterprise intended to be relevant to policy and mechanism design. It is structured so as to have three elements in...

Behavioral economics and behavioral finance typically incorporate cognitive and social factors in modeling economic decisions. These include decisions made by the buyers and sellers of insurance-related products. The field of behavioral insurance attempts to explain many of the discrepancies...

The need to respond to this situation by understanding the role of insurance for sustainable development, improving supply, heightening the awareness of insurance, creating the right regulatory framework and better understanding the particular needs of the low income population is the main focus...

Topics: Behavioral responses to taxation; Public budgeting; Public financial management; Evaluation of public expenditures; Contingent liabilities.

Many individuals, adults, adolescents, and children alike engage in a host of risky behaviors that might have significant present and future ramifications. Broadly defined, these are the type of behaviors that involves a trade-off between short term benefits and long-term costs. Examples of such...

The SMS Annual International Conference for 2013 will provide a forum for considering emerging and evolving notions of sustainability in strategy research and practice. The Conference invites contributions that represent original, interesting and theoretically bold research, as well as...

The Foundations and Applications of Utility and Risk network is an international professional alliance of distinguished researchers in Economics, Psychology, Statistics, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and several disciplines from business schools such as Marketing, Decision Science, and...

Many individuals, adults, adolescents, and children alike engage in a host of risky behaviors that might have significant present and future ramifications. Broadly defined, these are the type of behaviors that involves a trade-off between short term benefits and long-term costs. Examples of such...