CALL FOR PAPERS for the 9th BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - The Global Economics of a Changing Environment
Professor Nicholas Baltas
Department of Economics
Athens University of Economics and Business
76 Patission str.
Athens 104 34
Greece
Tel:+30 210 8203336
Fax:+30 2108203301
Email:baltas@aueb.gr
CALL FOR PAPERS
9th BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“The Global Economics of a Changing Environment”
July 9-11, 2008
Athens, Greece
Department of Economics,
Athens University of Economics and Business
In collaboration with
The Athenian Policy Forum
Venue: Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Program: Keynote lecture and sessions will be announced during March 2008.
Organizing Committee:
Professor Nicholas Baltas, Chair
Professor Andreas Andrikopoulos
Professor Sven Arndt
Professor George Bitros
Professor Jim Brox
Professor George Demopoulos
Professor Yannis Katsoulakos
Professor Alex Kondonassis
Professor Tassos Malliaris
Professor Brenda Spotton
Secretariat of the Conference :
Olga Bati
Kalli Ralli
Deadline for abstracts (500 words): 15 March 2008
A final version of accepted papers is requested by April 30, 2008
Submissions to: Olga Bati, Kalli Ralli
email: obati@aueb.gr, kralli@aueb.gr
Theme:
The Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, the Athenian Policy Forum Inc. (APF), York University, Toronto Canada, and Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, U.S. are pleased to announce the 9th Biennial Conference to be held in Athens, Greece, 9-11 July, 2008.
The theme of the conference will be on
“The Global Economics of a Changing Environment”
The effects of a changing environment on the global economic factors and variables, including causes and intensity, governmental responsibility and business practices, and their effect on the social core, prevention methods and implementation.
The organizers will be pleased to consider submissions on theoretical or empirical topics related to the overall theme of the conference.
Areas of interest include:
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The Balkans Regional Economy
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Economics of migration: The shifting population effect.
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Economics of the Information Era
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The foreign currency exchange markets: Profiteering game or economic development tool?
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Risks of global financial instabilities?
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Corporate governance and social responsibility.
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Institutions, Markets and Economic Development.
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Financial Instabilities and Business Cycles
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Inflation, Asset Bubbles and the Role of Monetary Policy
10. EU: Enlargement and the Global Leadership of the Euro
11. Entrepreneurship in Transforming Economies
12. Global trade and global currencies
The conference is the continuation of previous, highly successful conferences (http://www.apforum.org/conferen.htm) that started in 1993 with the specific purpose to develop close ties between academics from various parts of the world.
For all participants coming from abroad, hotel accommodation for three nights, will be covered by the Athens University of Economics and Business. Meals are free for all participants. Conference participants are responsible for their own travel expenses. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for possible publication in The Journal of Economic Asymmetries. The submission fee will be 100 euros.
For an up to-date information for the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics please visit the website www.aueb.gr or www.de.aueb.gr and for the Athenian Policy Forum (APF) please visit the APF website www.apforum.org.
"We Athenians, in our own persons, take our decisions on policy or submit them to proper discussions: for we do not think that there is an incompatibility between words and deeds; the worst thing is to rush into action before the consequences have been properly debated"
Thucydides II, 40
(Thucydides (460-400 B.C.) - Pericles’ Funeral Oration)
