Focus: Credit Risk, Integrated Risk Management, Interest Rate Term Structure, Portfolio and Hedge Fund Management and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

There will be a special issue of the JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE on “Markets and Institutions: Global Perspectives”. 1. Asset Pricing 10. Market Microstructure 2. Banking 11. Quantitative Finance 3. Capital Markets 12. Real Estate Investment 4. Corporate Finance 13. Risk and Insurance 5....

The implementation of sound quantitative risk models is a vital concern for all financial institutions, and this trend has accelerated in recent years with regulatory processes such as Basel II. The workshops provide a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques...

CofFEE announces the Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference which will incorporate the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 12th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be staged in Newcastle over two days - Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2005. Pencil in...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...

This is the first time that the Congress to be convened in Asia under its new name, the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. There are also two new practices which will be adopted for this Congress. First of all, rather than just submitting their written reports as was...

The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

The programme will focus around two main themes: (1) New trends in economics (2) Understanding the great changes in the world

The conference will focus on various aspects within the field, with special attention given to the interaction between the different areas and in particular emphasizing the role of mathematics and statistics. Topics that would be covered include among others: Stochastic models Modern methods of...