The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to...

Theme: Managing in the Pacific Century The pattern and pace of economic transformation in the Pacific Rim is unprecedented and presents new challenges and new opportunities for organisations throughout the world. The role of managers, management and leadership will be fundamental to this...

Forecasting is a key tool in applied macroeconometrics. However, occurrences like the subprime crisis are a great challenge for forecasting. On the one hand, it is of interest whether a crisis will occur or not. On the other hand, the forecasts of real or financial variables might be disturbed...

Topics: - International accounting and financial reporting standards - Accounting and corporate governance - The role of accounting information in business improvement - The role of professinal organisations in promoting accounting - The application of information technology in accounting -...

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

This Workshop aims at gathering scholars from economics and the various fields of management, with the aim of analyzing the future challenges of academic research in business and economics and to unveil its interactions with teaching and education. Special emphasis will be set on policy evaluation.

Contributions on the following fields are welcome: - Asian Stock Exchanges: New Bubbles? - Sovereign Funds and International Financial Stability - Integrating Financial System - Regulatory Framework in EU and Developments in Financial Services and Markets since the ISD - Institutional Investment...

The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 300th Session (November 2007) to discuss and adopt international statistical standards on two topics, Child Labour and Working Time. It will also discuss...

This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of...