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...

Topics will be: Corporate governance financing and performance Public debt management Financial Intermediation and Competition Credit Risk, Basel “ 2” and impact on SMI Venture capital, IPOs, and performance Microfinance, finance and ethics and corporate social responsibility Physics and...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Examination of counterparty credit risk, qualitative and quantitative analysis; - Credit risk mitigation tools and the role of credit risk mitigation...