An indicative list of topics that could be addressed by the conference, both at the theoretical and empirical level, includes: - Impact evaluation of infrastructure at the household and firm level - Infrastructure and social policies - Infrastructure and industrial policies - Infrastructure and...

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

The SCOR-IDEI chair aims to support the theoretical and applied research on risk sharing mechanisms with the willingness to combine methodologies from financial economics, industrial organization and econometrics. The first conference will bring together academics and practitioners to exchange...

Session I. - Volatility in Equilibrium: Asymmetries and Dynamic Dependencies - Inference on Sets in Finance - How Useful are No-Arbitrage Restrictions for Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates? Session II. - High Frequency Statistics with Irregularly Spaced Observations - Dissecting...

The subject of the conference is "Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy." The conference has thus two broad objectives. First, to take stock of the recent contributions on the knowledge economy and identify the building blocks of national and European Strategies to...

The 2008 conference will in particular cover the following topics: • Investment • Unbundling • Coordination • Retail competition • Climate change and energy markets

TOPICS: - The industrial organization of the Software and Internet Industries (competition and regulation, contractual relationships, strategies of firms, demand). - Macroeconomic consequences (growth, employment) of the Software and Internet Industries. - E-commerce, including jurisdictional...