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***Call for Papers***
Workshop on Sovereign and Public Debt and Default

4 & 5 December 2008
University of Warwick

The Economics Department of the University of Warwick will host a two day
workshop on this broad topic on 4 and 5 December. The themes include Political and Legal issues in Sovereign Debt and Public debt default among others. We invite submissions (abstracts or papers) from authors interested in these broad topics.

Reasonable travel expenses and accommodation will be covered for workshop participants.

The deadline for submission is 15 November 2008. Submissions should be sent to Amrita Dhillon


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Information Externalities, Social Learning and Financial Markets
15 & 16 December 2008
University of Cambridge

This two day workshop explores recent developments in social learning and information externalities, with particular attention (though not exclusively) to their impact on financial markets. Papers will span theoretical, empirical and experimental research.

The workshop is organized in single sessions with 12-14 presentations. Each paper will be allocated 45 minutes. Participants are kindly asked to attend the entire workshop.

Please see http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~apark/herdingworkshop.html for more information.

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