Dear INDECON Member (with apologies for cross posting)
Please now find attached the registration form and programme fo our next
meeting in St Andrews on 29-30 August 2008. We have a great line-up of
speakers (see below), and look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Please email any queries to [log in to unmask] or see the attached
for the full programme.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Julia A Smith (Secretary and Treasurer, ESRC SAFE Seminars)
Gavin C Reid (Chairman, ESRC SAFE Seminars)
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ESRC SAFE SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, 29-30 AUGUST 2008
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
Andrew Vivian (Loughborough) ‘Do small firms earn higher returns than
large firms: what do we expect of the size premium?’
Geoff Willcocks (Bournemouth) ‘Regional UK house price returns: ripple
effect, convergence and volatility – a co-integration analysis.’
Gavin C Reid (St Andrews) and Julia A Smith (Strathclyde) ‘Practitioner
Views on Financial Reporting for Smaller Entities’
Daw Ma Chung-Hua (Institute for Economic Research, Taiwan) and John Mark
(King’s College London) ‘The Dynamics of Market Structure in the
Semiconductor Industry’
Ken Lyall (Formerly Research Fellow in Financial Economics at Edinburgh
University, and also with several years experience at Arthur Andersen, he
is currently Chairman of Walter Scott & Partners Limited, long-term global
equity investment managers) ‘A financier’s perspective on the practitioner
dimensions of the combined field of finance, accounting and economics’
Wessam Abouarghoub (Bristol Business School) ‘Value at Risk and Tanker
Shipping Freight Rates’
Jean J. Gabszewicz and Skerdilajda Zanaj (Université Catholique de
Louvain) ’Double marginalization in successive oligopolies’
Jeremy Peat (Formerly Group Chief Economist at the RBS Group, he is a
member of the Competition Commission and Director of the independent
economics research body, the David Hume Institute. Since 2005 National
Governor for BBC Scotland) ‘An economist’s perspective on the practitioner
dimensions of the combined field of economics, accounting and finance’
Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos (University of Ioannina, Greece) ‘Business
History and Conflicting Entrepreneurial Culture as explanatory factors in
the Success and Failure of FDI in the Chinese economy’
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