Highlights of the Twenty-Third Annual Institute include a discussion by the Competent Authority from the United States with several leading private practitioners. The program also will address key practical issues faced by tax practitioners, corporate tax executives, and the Internal Revenue...

The Swiss Finance Institute is pleased to invite you to a SFI breakfast seminar. Speaker: Professor Xiaodong Zhu from the University of Toronto Topic: China’s Capital Markets and Growth China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there have been debates over the...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Brandeis International Business School will host this workshop, where researchers and practitioners will discuss issues central to the design, regulation, and use of financial markets, including liquidity, bid-ask spreads, transparency, and market...

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...

The conference serves as a vehicle to provide additional training to researchers new to the field of aging.

The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial crisis. The Seminar will consist of a Summer School from June 19 to 26, 2010,...

While the content of the typical undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics course has remained stable in recent decades, computers have become more powerful, easier to use, and as common as pencil and paper. In spite of these developments, teaching methods remain virtually unchanged, with chalk...

The first day of the conference is targeted at academics as well as practitioners and policy makers. The second day has a more academic focus. Topics of interest are, among others: - Macroeconomic aspects of ageing and retirement - Life cycle saving and investment behavior - Long term financial...

The scientific committee welcomes theoretical and empirical papers on productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operations research public administration and related fields. Historically, empirical papers have addressed such general topics as...

The Workshop on Data Access (‘Nuremberg Group') aims to promote access to confidential government data for research purposes and to build an expert network to identify best practice and disseminate advice about effective management of research facilities. The main topics for the 3rd Workshop...