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In the recent past, developments in asset and housing markets have attracted a lot of attention. Economic policy, including monetary policy and financial supervision, has been confronted with several challenges resulting from this turmoil. The conference aims to shed more light on the reasons...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.

Thema: Interoperabilität: Innovationsschutz versus Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 1: Standards, Schnittstellen und Wettbewerb Themenschwerpunkt 2: Zwangslizensierung: Königsweg für Innovationsanreize und Wissensdiffusion? Themenschwerpunkt 3: Die EU-Kommissionsentscheidung im Microsoft-Fall

The conference will be part of the 5th BMBF-Forum for Sustainability held in Berlin in September 2008 and will provide time and space for an exchange of ideas between actors from politics, science, and industry and services. The main issues of erscp2008 are: I Sustainable Housing and...

Die 29. Olympischen Sommerspiele, die am 8. August 2008 in Peking eröffnet werden, ziehen die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf China. Internationale Medien beleuchten nicht nur die sportlichen Highlights, sondern werfen ihr Licht auch auf die Erfolge und Probleme des nunmehr...

The core of the Conference discusses various dimensions of Demographic Change and Sustainable Development in Europe from different perspectives, country-specific experiences and theoretical as well as empirical approaches. This hopes to contribute in pushing the frontier of knowledge and to...

The international colloquium shall bring together top experts on sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. It aims at analysing the contribution of increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having a focus on economics, the international colloquium shall also cover the...

Topics of Interest: Software and Internet industries; Competition policy and regulation; ICT and innovation; Telecommunication and new media; Internet services; Digital markets and intellectual property rights; Standards; ICT outsourcing; ICT, productivity and growth; ICT and the labor market.

The 8th Hamburg Symposium “Sport and Economics” will gather researchers from universities and personalities from politics, business and sports and will offer them the rare opportunity to interexchange their experiences in the field of mega sport events. Specific topics of interest include...