The conference is structured around the key functional areas of financial intermediation and corporate finance, hence any work that falls within these research realms is welcome. The conference objective is to help stimulate and promote academic activity in the relevant areas and to encourage...

The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis provides intensive social science methods training with instruction from an internationally renowned faculty. After careful consideration, we have transferred our 2021 programme to an entirely online format.

Due to COVID-19 the Royal Economic Society will be rescheduling the 2020 Easter School. Royal Economic Society Easter Training School is intended primarily for advanced postgraduate students doing doctoral research, but younger lecturers and postdoctoral researchers are also welcome. Professor...

Research themes: - global development and governance, - sustainability and corporate social responsibility, - reporting and regulations, - corporate governance, - auditing, fraud and corruption, - managerial controls, - islamic finance, micro-finance and SMEs, - culture, religion, ethnicity and...

We seek to bring together researchers from the field of Economics and Psychology who collect and analyze subjective expectations and subjective probabilities in applied work. Potential topics include issues related to measurement, expectations formation, use of expectations in econometric models...

The 50th Essex Summer School takes place between 10 July and 18 August 2017. The Summer School consists of three two-week sessions. Each session offers a variety of post graduate level courses. Courses usually run for two weeks, infrequent exceptions run for one week only. Courses cover various...

Topics: - Banking and Finance - Empirical corporate finance - Empirical industrial organization - Experimental economics and finance - Labour economics - International economics - Economics of development - Political economy - Public economics and finance

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,...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The 2014 conference will critically examine established thinking and bring together a range of new perspectives on identifying future directions for macroeconomics and policy. Developments from at least three new branches of economics, agent-based computational, complexity and behavioural...