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...

The conference title is therefore: From Critique to Transfor­mation? Critical Governance Studies in and beyond the Crisis. Topics: - Governance futures in and beyond capitalism - In and against the state' once more? Towards critical governance practices - The governance of science and...

This conference aims to cover several important dimensions of workforce heterogeneity (nationality, cultural background, skill and occupational dimensions, gender, and age structure), high-lighted from various perspectives and disciplines. The focus will be on the impact of diversity on...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

FMA’s Annual Meeting brings together academicians and practitioners with interests in financial decision making. The meeting provides a forum for presenting new research and discussing current issues in financial management and related topics.

In the 2012 Conference, we plan to address the following topics: - The Euro-Crisis - Restructuring the State: Welfare and Austerity, Parliaments and Executive Decision-making - Economic Democracy - Inequality and Democracy - Crisis Management, Elite Disorientation - International Relations: New...

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...

A distinguished group of presenters and discussants will address topics of special interest to plan sponsors, foundations, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Pension Managers, Senior Executives of Financial Firms, Plan Sponsors, Endowments, Finance...

The socioeconomic gradient in health has been described by some as one of the most intriguing questions for the social sciences. While its universal existence is well known, less is known about the relative roles played by various potential mechanisms in causing it. During this workshop we bring...

Submissions in all areas of financial and insurance risk management are welcome. Topics of interest include: - Market, credit, operational, liquidity and energy risk - Stress testing and scenario analysis - Systemic risk in banking and insurance - Solvency II and Basel III - Dependence...