Longevity risk is an increasingly important risk for pension plan and annuity providers and, indeed, individuals to recognize, quantify and manage. It is not such an immediate or even as large a risk as, say, interest rate or inflation risk, two of the key risks that pension funds are now...

Aim of the course is introducing students to the origins and developments of social policy, to principles and practices of benefit systems and social services, to European social policy, methods of comparative research, and to available quantitative and qualitative data sets.

The first two days are focused on academic research, with contributed papers and with two keynote speakers: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, will talk about the behavioral economics of pension savings and Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College, will address saving adequacy as...

The Development Dialogue is a yearly initiative of PhD Candidates at the Institute of Social Studies, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The objective is to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and PhD candidates in different fields of development studies. This year,...

We welcome especially contributions that analyze the interaction between microeconomic financial structures and macroeconomic policies and stability objectives. We seek to attract high quality theoretical and empirical work around five main themes: 1. Contagion 2. Stability effects of...

The topic of the conference is stress testing of infrequently traded credit risk.The programme committee encourages the submission of papers in the following areas: - Link between macroeconomic risk and portfolio credit risk - The use of multi-factor credit risk models in stress tests - Design...

Special Topics: Lévy Models and Life Insurance and Pensions Minicourses: Ernst Eberlein: Lévy driven financial models Ragnar Norberg: Managing risk in life insurance and pensions Special invited lectures: Andreas Kyprianou: Scale functions and spectrally negative Lévy processes Uwe Schmock:...