Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

Экономический факультет

научно-практическая конференция, посвященная 10-летию  кафедры

 «Управления рисками и страхования»

ПУТИ РАЗВИТИЯ ТЕОРИИ И ПРАКТИКИ СОВРЕМЕННОГО СТРАХОВАНИЯ

28 октября 2011 г, Санкт-Петербург

На конференции предполагается обсудить следующие вопросы:

• Пути развития страхования в России. Страхование как фактор инновационного развития.
• Эволюция моделей взаимоотношения государства и бизнеса на страховом рынке.
• Особенности регионального развития страхового рынка России. Роль филиалов страховых организаций. Проблемы развития «региональных» и «федеральных» страховых компаний.
• Развитие отраслевых страховых рынков.
• Модификация системы социального страхования и пенсионного обеспечения.
• Роль информационных технологий и Интернета на рынке страховых услуг.
• Теория и практика разработки и продвижения новых страховых продуктов. Микрострахование. Такафул-страхование.
• Место России в мировом страховом пространстве.
• Вопросы экономики и организации деятельности отдельной страховой компании.
• Государственное регулирование страховой деятельности.
• Проблемы страхового образования.

Регистрация участников по адресу: L.soboleva@econ.pu.ru (форма регистрации свободная)

сайт конференции www.insurdep.com

Требования к оформлению текстов докладов, тезисов: в правом верхнем углу указать фамилию и инициалы автора (авторов), организация и город; объем до 0,5 п.л. через 1,5 интервала; сноски оформлять постранично; текст набирать в редакторе MS Word; шрифт Times New Roman Cyr; размер шрифта 12; все поля 2,5 см; выравнивание по ширине; автоматическая расстановка переносов; формулы набирать в редакторе Microsoft equation 3.0 или 3.1.

Материалы конференции будут опубликованы по прошествии 4 месяцев с момента окончания конференции.

Место проведения конференции: Санкт-Петербург, ул. Чайковского,62, экономический факультет СПбГУ

Организационный комитет:

Тел.: (812)273-24-00 – Соболева Людмила Витальевна,  

        +7(911)7812755 - Писаренко Жанна Викторовна

Insurance Markets and Catastrophe Risk

Call for Papers

On May 11 and 12, 2012, the National Bureau of Economic Research will hold a Universities' Research Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Insurance Markets and Catastrophe Risk.

Conference Organization

The program is being organized by Ken Froot of Harvard Business School and NBER, Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and NBER, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. There will be no published proceedings, but the conference will be summarized in the NBER Reporter.

Conference Theme

In recent years, a number of extreme events have caused large economic shocks and created substantial political and social challenges. Natural disasters, terrorist acts, technological accidents, outbreaks of contagious diseases, discrete medical advances impacting longevity and the recent financial crisis are salient examples. The costs and consequences of these extreme events depend critically on the private and public actions, policies, and incentives that are in place both before and after they occur.

This conference will highlight research on a range of issues related to insurance markets and catastrophic risks. Suitable themes for the meeting include:

• What drives the demand for and supply of physical and protective measures, including but not limited to insurance, from such events for residential and commercial structures and activities?
• Does the packaging and marketing of protective measures affect the demand for them, and the extent to which they reduce losses?
• How is information about the probability distribution and consequences of these events formed and relied upon?
• What distortions (institutional, behavioral, financial, theoretical) are present in markets for these risks?
• How does the public sector affect the supply of and demand for protection and influence the recovery process after catastrophic events?
• How do existing public and private interventions in the markets for catastrophe risks affect the overall level of risk-taking?
• How do current public programs, and other potential programs, affect the distributional effects of catastrophic events?

Selections Process

In keeping with the NBER's tradition, priority will be given to empirical research or theoretical work with empirical applications. We encourage submissions from researchers early in their careers and also from non-NBER affiliates.

Participants will be selected on the basis of papers or abstracts of about 500 words, with a strong preference for papers. Any research that will not be published at the time of the conference can be submitted. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2011. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified by October 31, 2011. Final drafts of the papers will be due at the NBER on April 15, 2012. The NBER will pay the domestic travel and hotel expenses for one author per paper as well as for discussants at the conference.

If you have a paper you would like to present, please upload the abstract and paper by October 1 to: http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=URCs12.

The Asian Conference on Education: “Local Problems, Global Solutions?”
Date: October 24-25, 2009
Site: Osaka, Japan
Organiser: the University of Brighton, the International Academic Forum
Topics:

The conference's theme is 'Local Problems, Global Solutions?' and the organizers encourage
submissions that approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Education, including the following: Primary and Secondary Education; Further Education;
Higher Education; Distance Learning; Adult Education; Student Affairs; Language Learning and Acquisition
(ESL/TESL/TEFL); Applied Linguistics; Curriculum Research and Development; Teacher Education and
Professional Development; Educational Policy and Administration; Educational Vision and Leadership;
Educational Management; The Economics of Education.
Language: English  Fee: 200$
Deadline: July 15, 2009
Contact: Thomas Duke
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Internet: http://ace.iafor.org  
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ISSS's 2010 Annual Conference: “Social Studies in the 21st Century”
Date: February 25-26, 2010
Site: Orlando, USA
Organiser: The International Society for the Social Studies
Topics:

The 2010 Annual Conference seeks to appeal to all professionals involved in social studies education.
College & university faculty, K-12 teachers & administrators, curriculum designers & specialists, social studies supervisors, undergraduate & graduate students, and people in the various disciplines that constitute the social  studies are encouraged to participate in the 2010 Annual Conference.
Language: English  Fee: 100$-160$
Deadline: September 30, 2009
Contact: Dr. William Russell, The International Society for the Social Studies, University of Central
Florida, College of Education, Suite 115J, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816-1250
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Internet: http://www.theisss.org  
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The Fifth Organization Studies Workshop:  “Social Movements, Civil Societies and
Corporation”
Date: May 26-28, 2010
Site: Margaux, France
Organiser: Organization Studies
Topics:

The workshop will bring together people from a variety of perspectives and disciplines who study social life at the intersection of social movements, political institutions, civic engagement, and the corporation. The
organizers invite theoretical and empirical papers and are agnostic about epistemological and ontological
perspectives and especially welcome papers that are situated in diverse geographies and disciplinary traditions.
One of the purposes of the workshop is to broaden  the thinking about the impact of civil society on
corporations, including topics related to communities, political ideologies, and institution building. Invited are
people from management studies, sociology, political science, and other relevant disciplines to cross-pollinate
ideas at the workshop.
Language: English
Deadline: December 10, 2009
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Internet: http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/workshop-on-social-movements-and-the-
corporation/#more-5395  
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Special issue of Journal of International Business Studies: “Global Economic Crises and
International Business”
Type of publication: print/ online
Publication date: Winter 2011
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Topics:

The editors are particularly interested in how the current crisis of the global market economy affects
international business through its impact on MNEs, including the entire range of internationally active firms,  from entrepreneurial start-ups to the largest, global companies. The editors are equally interested in new forms  of business-government interaction in the context of international policy coordination as well as renewed protectionism. Finally, the editors also want to gain new insight on changes in the macro-level institutions of capitalism that affect IB transactions. Here, we welcome creative thinking on the design of new, macro-level institutions aimed to prevent future economic crises. From a conceptual perspective, scholars are expected to submitt papers to understand the foundations of modern international business theory, as laid out by Professor
Dunning, but also creative perspectives informed by any relevant scholarly discipline.
Deadline: January 29, 2010
Contact: The Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor
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Internet: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/cfp_global_eco_crises.html
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Special issue of Journal of International Business Studies: “Qualitative Research in
International Business”
Type of publication: print/ online
Publication date: Spring or Summer 2011
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Topics:

The editors hope to showcase exemplars of various forms of qualitative research that advance the
understanding of international business phenomena. Qualitative research encompasses a diversity of methods that includes, but is not limited to, single or multiple case study, ethnographic/field studies, unobtrusive observations, interviews, narrative analysis, participant observation/action research, grounded theory practice, and archival analysis of documents and texts. Some topics suitable for inclusion in the Special Issue include:
Original research contributions that use qualitative methods in an effective way; Examples of how to use multiple case studies as a way of deductively testing  strong constructs induced from base ethnographies in international business research; Qualitative studies used to triangulate uncertain or “squishy” quantitative results; Exemplars of the Constant Comparative Method (Glaser &s; Strauss, 1967) as praxis (dialogue between practice and academe) used to build theory in IB; Exemplars of rigorous theory induction in IB to build strong constructs and testable propositions.  
Deadline: September 18, 2009 Contact: The Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor
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Internet: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/cfp_qualitative_ib.html  
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