FOCUS: Credit Risk, Risk Management, Derivative Pricing, High Dimensional Quantitative Methods and other areas of Quantitative Finance

TOPIC AREAS: 1 Asset Pricing 2 Banking / Financial Institutions 3 Financial Accounting 4 Financial Statement Analysis 5 Equity Valuations 6 Earnings Quality 7 Financial Economics 8 Financial and Economic Integration 9 Capital Markets 10 Corporate Finance 11 Corporate Governance 12 Derivative...

Topics: - the effects of the terms of trade on the economy - financial intermediation and monetary policy - DSGE estimation, factor models and policy evaluations - learning and DSGE estimation

The interpenetration of democracy and the economy has been subject to longstanding suspicions, on both sides. Economists frequently decry what they regard as ill-conceived interventions into the market from populist politicians. For their part, political scientists are often concerned about the...

Theme: Labour underutilisation, skill shortages, and social inclusion - three sides of the same coin.

Topics: -Measurement, modelling and forecasting of correlation and volatility -Theory and Applications in: Banking; Stock and Bond Markets; Commodity Markets; Derivatives; Corporate Finance; Macroeconomic Modelling; International Finance; Insurance.

Topics: • optimal policy in modern DSGE models, • time-inconsistency and commitment, • robustness of optimal policy, • optimal policy under alternative expectations formations, • specification of objectives (loss function)

The symposium will be part of the NCEIS Conference. Islamic banking, investment, finance and insurance are new forms of financial transactions based on: profit-sharing; avoiding interest; equitable risk-sharing in lending contracts; avoiding financing unethical activities; and avoiding...

We welcome empirical and theoretical papers dealing with all aspects of retail payments, in particular the following issues: • Pricing and use of payment services • Efficient pricing of payment services • Substitution among payment instruments, including cash • Pricing in two-sided...

Conference Themes and Topics: - The Changing Nature of LNG Trade - Energy and Poverty in the Asia/Pacific Region - Nuclear Power - Carbon Capture and Sequestration - Regional Oil Markets and Security of Supply - Economic Viability of Renewable Energy Technologies - Experience in Creating Markets...