Topics: Education and life long learning; Social cohesion; Sustainable development, and social responsibility of companies; Employment; Competence, knowledge, and human capital management; Productivity, competition, growth; Innovation: systems, models and definitions; Entrepreneurship;...

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

Topics: - Relationship between statistical methods and business cycle theory - Estimation of potential output and output gap - Dating, detecting and forecasting turning points - Growth and cyclical convergence - Transmission of cyclical fluctuations - Forecasting methods for economic activity...

Papers submitted may be in any of the following areas related to: Monetary policy; Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions; Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand; Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations; Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates; Corporate Finance...