Call for book chapters: Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery

Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery

Edited by: 

• Constantin Gurdgiev (Trinity College, Ireland)
• Liam Leonard (California State University, Fullerton and  University of West Virginia; United States)
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (Universidad EAFIT, Colombia)

This volume of the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Series with Emerald Group Publishing UK, will examine the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession'.

Call for Chapters:

Chapters for this volume will be accepted from international academics whose work focuses on issues of economy, sustainability, core-periphery politics and community development. This volume will examine the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession'. 

The book will examine global cases of environmental sustainability & economics in the context of nations both the core and periphery. Essentially, the book will discuss the high costs of decisions taken in response to the 2008 economic crisis, one of which is now creating a lack of investment in environmental and developmental considerations.

The book will examine concepts of sustainability in the post recessionary and post-bailout world.
Definitions suggested for contributors include the following:

1. Fiscal / economic / social sustainability
2. Financial sustainability (sector risks etc) 
3. Environmental sustainability 

Chapters may also examine the relationships between nations and nations and supra state agencies such as the UN, EU, IMF etc.

Abstracts should be emailed to Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez at: mgonza40@eafit.edu.co by May 1st 2015

Final Submission of chapters will be by July 31st 2015.

Further information

Dr. Liam Leonard (BA, MPhil, PhD), California State University, Fullerton and  University of West Virginia.
Editor: Advances in Sustainability &Environmental Justice Book Series (Emerald UK)

Email: liam_leonard@yahoo.com

Call for papers: Risk Management Post Financial Crisis: A Period of Monetary Easing

Call for Papers

Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis (CSEFA)

Volume 96

Risk Management Post Financial Crisis: A Period of Monetary Easing

Co-editors:
Jonathan A. Batten, Monash University, Australia
Niklas F. Wagner, University of Passau, Germany


Submissions are invited for a special issue of CSEFA Volume 96. The focus of this issue is on financial risk management in a post financial crisis environment, including the effects of nonstandard monetary policies by central banks. Papers are not limited to but may address the following topics

- advances in measuring and reporting risk and liquidity after the crisis,
- the impacts of Basel III including e.g. capital requirements and bank balance sheets,
- central bank monetary policies and bank liquidity,
- credit risk assessment and bank lending to SMEs,
- the impact of excess liquidity on asset prices (e.g. bubbles and crashes),
- the particular risks of inflationary or deflationary economic environments.

Selected papers will be published as chapters of CSEFA Volume 96. CSEFA is published by the Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA, United Kingdom. It forms a continuing series of refereed volumes featuring original academic research in financial economics. The series is now included in the ISI Web of Knowledge and Book Citation Index.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Submission of work of a high standard in the above topic area is very welcome. Please submit your paper proposal as an abstract including

• - the title and abstract,
• - a list of keywords,
• - names and affiliations (with email and postal address) of all authors,
• - all authors’ 200 word bios,

to one of the editors. Authors will be notified about acceptance of their abstracts in due course.

Final manuscript

Upon acceptance, the submission deadline for final manuscripts is January 15, 2014. Final manuscripts have to be in MS Word text format with a length of up to 8000 words. They may include up to five tables or figures.

Contact: 

Jonathan A. Batten
Email: jonathan.batten@monash.edu

Niklas F. Wagner
Email: niklas.wagner@uni-passau.de