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...

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:...

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

Following last year's successful event in London, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Marketforce are excited to bring you the sixth annual The Future of Consumer Finance this autumn. Speakers at last year's event tackled many issues that have since gone on to dominate newspaper headlines and...

We invite proposals for papers or sessions that address either the general theme of this year conference "Labour, Institutions and Growth in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy" or the topic of one of the Research Areas or both.

Tracks: A - Advancing entrepreneurship education and young enterprise B - Business birth-rate strategy - stimulating & supporting start-ups C - Community, ethnic, minority, rural and social enterprise E - E-entrepreneurship, e-business and e-learning I - Innovation, technology transfer and...

Since being established in 2001, The Future of General Insurance has grown in stature year on year and is now the leading industry event, attracting senior level delegates and speakers from across the industry.

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on various aspects of productivity, trade and development. The topics of the conference include: 1) the role of productivity growth vs. factor accumulation in convergence; 2) within and between sector reallocation; 3) relative...