The EPO Patent Information Conference is one of the leading patent information events in Europe. It is not only a conference, but also a public exhibition, a training event and a meeting point for professionals in the field. This year's event is organised in co-operation with the Swedish Patent...

State space models are a powerful tool to tackle difficult inference and forecasting problems common in economic and financial series. Given the emphasis placed on forecasting and nowcasting in modern central banks and other financial institutions, state space models seem a much under-utilized...

The main aim of the workshop is to gather new researchers in a friendly and unimposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers and leading economic historians. Another aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the breadth of Economic...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

The workshop will integrate three themes: (1) project organization and knowledge integration: developing capabilities for successful execution of R&D projects. Innovative organization structures, processes and integration mechanisms (2) co-locating versus off-shoring R&D and industrialization:...

The ambition to design allocation mechanisms and voting rules that satisfy various desirable criteria (efficiency, strategy-proofness, fairness, equality, anonymity, neutrality, etc.) has a long tradition and also been high on the agenda of economic research in recents decades. The research has...

The conference is structured around five overlapping and inter-related themes: - Gendering working-class history - Labour feminism and female activism - Women and work - paid and unpaid - Bodies - trade and consumption - local, regional and international perspectives - Cultural and ideological...

For the academic part of the conference, we invite authors to submit high-quality research papers in the areas of asset pricing and corporate finance, with an emphasis on debt instruments and markets. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

The 2008 World Water Week in Stockholm involves over 90 different plenary sessions, workshops, seminars, side events, panels, social events, field visits and prize award seminars.

Topics: all areas of environmental and natural resource economics.