Correspondence: Soumitra K. Mallick, Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Management House, College Square West, Kolkata 700 073, India. E-mail: smallick@iiswbm.edu

¹is an Assistant Professor (Reader) at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata, in the areas of Finance & Economics. He obtained his B.Comm (Hons.) from Calcutta University, CA, from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, and his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.

Abstract

This paper outlines a hierarchical model for managing conference websites taking the websites of the various congresses of Econometric Society as the concrete case, and discusses some steps in implementation. The issue of timely "clusters" of the various regional meetings is integrated with the website and the journal publications by comparing website information and venue information and drawing implications of the economic theory of rent.