The main focus will be on recent developments in methodologies, techniques, and software for statistical computing with applications for Quantitative Finance and Biostatistics.

The workshop aims at stimulating discussion among disciplines on the way current challenges in the economy and in the global polity, as well as, the call of citizens jointly contribute to reshape the existing national states and the resulting economic and societal orders. The focus of the...

We welcome diverse approaches, including, but not restricted to, theoretical, experimental, and neuroscientific. Besides offering networking opportunities, the workshop aims to further existing dialogues on how neuroscientific and gerontological insights can be incorporated into models of...

This course will focus on quantitative empirical research methods used in management accounting research (archival, survey, experiments) and frequently used theoretical perspectives including the contingency theory of organizations, economic theories (agency, value of information, organizational...

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - Sources of asset price fluctuations: fundamentals and bubbles - Asset prices, financial frictions and the amplification/propagation of shocks - Interactions between financial and labour-market frictions -...

The workshop is an opportunity to bring together young labour economists to present and discuss their ongoing research. The programme will include 10-12 presentations, two poster sessions and a keynote lecture.

Bayesian time series models have become very popular with empirical macroeconomists. This is because they are especially suited to deal with great number of parameters such as the ones characterizing commonly employed macroeconomic models. The latter may include many variables and may feature...

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite empirical, applied and theo-retical papers dealing with time series and panel econometrics,...

A two-day workshop on "LIBOR Market Models and Beyond," will be presented by Mark Joshi on Monday, 12 December 2011; and a one day workshop on "Stochastic Portfolio Management" with Banner, de Silva, Fernholz, Fouque, Hulley, Kelly, Platen on Tuesday, 13 December 2011.