The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.

The organising committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

Papers presented address topics such as the role of capital flow management measures as a policy instrument and their spillovers, the role of banks in international business cycles, exchange rate policy, and international debt deleveraging.

Topics: - financial market incentives and bank funding, - International implications of the evolving models of funding, - the impact of different types of bank funding on the supply of corporate lending (including SME lending) and investment, - corporate bond issuance as a complement/substitute...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Circular and return migration - The role of social networks and Diaspora externalities - Remittances, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI - Brain drain - Migration and institutional change - Immigrant integration - Immigration policies

The Adam Smith Corporate Finance (ASCF) and Adam Smith Asset Pricing (ASAP) Workshops will take place on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.