The 4th Annual Bancassurance Forum is designed to provide an embracing insight into the leading trends of Bancassurance channel innovation including the focus on higher network segments and answering the call for diluting the pension gaps that are facing European market. The speakers and...

This is a workshop for locally based researchers to present their current work and discuss the work of others. Any research within the fields of international trade or industrial organisation is relevant, and both established economists and PhD students are encouraged to apply.

Papers adopting qualitative, quantitative and macro or micro economic approaches to understanding aspects of knowledge intensive sectors are welcome. As are those providing conceptual developments and critical appraisals of various dimensions of knowledge and innovation within...

Theme: New Frontiers In International Entrepreneurship: Bridging the gaps between North & South and East & West The MIE 2008 Conference theme seeks to stimulate lively discussion of a number of issues and challenges facing the international entrepreneurship discipline. In particular, we invite...

Theme: Managing in the Pacific Century The pattern and pace of economic transformation in the Pacific Rim is unprecedented and presents new challenges and new opportunities for organisations throughout the world. The role of managers, management and leadership will be fundamental to this...

Contributions on the following fields are welcome: - Asian Stock Exchanges: New Bubbles? - Sovereign Funds and International Financial Stability - Integrating Financial System - Regulatory Framework in EU and Developments in Financial Services and Markets since the ISD - Institutional Investment...

Areas of Interest: - Statistical significance and economic value of return and volatility predictability in asset returns (e.g. commodities, derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, hedge funds and REITs) - Risk and return of trading strategies in novel derivative contracts:...

Programme: - Data-Based Ranking of Realised Volatility Estimators - Bayesian Forecasting using Stochastic Search Variable Selection in a VAR - Forecasting with Equilibrium-correction Models during Structural Breaks - Forecasting Inflation by an Autoregressive Model with a Shifting Mean - Small...

This year's two day conference will examine the latest trends and key issues affecting the private banking sector, offering focused debate and discussion from top-level speakers across the wealth management industry.

The conference will be divided into four sessions: 1. Sources of productivity 2. The role of information technology in driving productivity 3. Regulation and its relationship with productivity 4. ‘Best practices’ as a business strategy for improving productivity