GARNET's core theme is ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU’. To integrate research from Europe and beyond, GARNET organises an international conference every year starting 2006. This one, held in Amsterdam, will be the first.

Overview of sections and respective lecturing rooms of the conference: - Competitiveness and Economic Policy - Roles and Issues of the Public Sector in a Modern Welfare State - Manager and His or Her Role in the Successfulness of a Company - Financial Management of Companies and Institutions -...

The conference work is organized in the following six workshops: 1.Monetary and fiscal policy 2.International economic policy 3.Labor and social policy 4.Regional policy 5.Sectoral economic policy 6.Entrepreneurship policy

Sessions: 'Why Do Investors Chase Return Trends?'; 'The Effective Cost of Fund Terms to Private Equity Investors'; 'Do Market Timing Hedge Funds Time the Market?' and 'Time-Varying Liquidity Risk and The Cross-Section of Stock Returns'.

The European Risk Management Seminar is specifically designed to give agriculture and food industry executives a detailed business approach to managing price and profit margin risks via strategic market instruments. Tailored specifically for a European audience, though relevant to all those...

The objective of this conference is to facilitate this learning process, using the experience gained in Estonia and the other Baltic states to bring attention to the process of democratization, creating new tools for understanding the process. More specifically, the conference will develop...