Call for papers
The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, will host the Summer Research Conference 2007 in Finance during August 10 - 12, 2007.
The theme of the conference is Corporate Finance. Apart from ISB faculty, the conference programme committee includes Franklin Allen (Wharton), Arnaud Boot (Amsterdam), Glenn Boyle (New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation), Bhagwan Chowdhry (UCLA), Stijn Claessens (IMF), Francesca Cornelli (London Business School), Sudipto Dasgupta (HKUST), Joseph Fan (CUHK), Thomas Hellmann (UBC), Kose John (NYU), Han Kim (Michigan), Vojislav Maksimovic (Maryland), Massimo Massa (INSEAD), Tom Noe (Tulane), Terry Odean (Berkeley), NR Prabhala (Maryland), Manju Puri (Duke), Subrata Sarkar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Rangarajan Sundaram (NYU), and Anjan Thakor (Washingtion-St. Louis).
Papers in all areas of corporate finance are welcome, including corporate financing and agency costs, corporate investment decisions, real options, corporate finance and product markets, control rights and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, institutional and legal framework, behavioral implications, and corporate financing in emerging markets. Theoretical as well as empirical papers will be considered. The conference programme committee will anonymously evaluate and rank the submitted papers. For each session, the selected papers will be matched by topic.
Please note the following important submission information:
Deadline for submission: April 15, 2007
Submission address: summer_conference2007@isb.edu
Submission format: a cover page with names and affiliations of all authors, abstract, and full text of paper. Electronic copy only.
Communication of decision to authors: May 15, 2007
There will be USD 5,000 award generously funded by Citigroup for the best paper presented at the conference. Additionally, if a paper is accepted in the programme, we will provide limited travel support for the presenter to attend the conference. We hope that the other participants will be able to pay for their transportation to and from Hyderabad from their own research and travel budget. For participants at a U.S. school with CIBER, there may be CIBER funds available for travel.
CAF organizes two research conferences each year: one in the summer (mid-August) and the other in the winter (late December). Well-known finance scholars from around the world have participated in our research conferences. To view the programme schedule and the papers presented at our previous conferences, please visit the CAF website at
http://www.isb.edu/CAF
For more information about the city of Hyderabad, please visit http://www.hyderabad.co.uk/ |
