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Starting in 2007, the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, the Financial Institutions
Centre (FIC) at the Wharton School, and the Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) at Stockholm organise joint research
conferences in the area of emerging market finance. The conferences are annual, held in spring, and rotate between Philadelphia,
Stockholm, and Hyderabad. The first CAF – FIC – SIFR conference was held at the Wharton School, and the second conference at
SIFR. To view the agenda of the past conferences, please visit http://www.isb.edu/CAF/htmls/PreliminaryConference.pdf
The third CAF – FIC – SIFR conference was held on the campus of the Indian Business School, Hyderabad, during March 20 -
22, 2009. The theme for this conference was Emerging Market Finance. Two special areas of interest were China’s Financial
System and Comparative Financial Systems. The conference began with a reception on the evening of Friday, March 20,
and the sessions were held on Saturday, March 21, and Sunday, March 22. The conference program committee included Viral
Acharya (NYU), Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank Chicago and ISB), Franklin Allen (Wharton), Ulf Axelson (SIFR), Bhagwan
Chowdhry (UCLA), Sankar De (ISB), Mihir Desai (Harvard), Joseph Fan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Ravi Jagannathan
(Kellogg), Kai Li (UBC), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard), Vinay Nair (Wharton), Jun “QJ” Qian (Boston College), Eswar Prasad
(Cornell), Krishna Ramaswamy (Wharton), Antoinette Schoar (MIT), Hyun Song Shin (Princeton), Per Strömberg (SIFR), Raghu
Sundaram (NYU), and Shangjin Wei (Columbia).
T N Srinivasan, Samuel C Park Jr Professor, Yale University, and an eminent scholar in development economics and international
trade, delivered the keynote address at the Conference. Professor Srinivasan has been a keen observer of the progress of Indian
economic reforms over the years. His keynote speech focussed on the changing interface between the real and financial sectors,
with special reference to China and India. In view of the recent developments in the global economy, the importance of the topic
can be hardly overemphasised.
Topics
Papers on all aspects of financial markets in emerging economies were welcome. Topics included, but were not limited to:
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China’s financial system
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Comparative financial systems
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Capital markets reform
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Law, institutions, and finance
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Banking and financial institutions
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Private equity
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Capital market integration
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Emerging market risks and asset returns
Submission information
Submission deadline: November 1, 2008
Submission procedure: visit the conference site www.isb.edu/EMFconference/, go to Paper Submission page, and upload paper.
Submission format: first (cover) page with names and affiliations of all authors, second page with abstract, followed by full text of paper. PDF or MS-Word version only.
Communication of decision to authors: first week of December, 2008
Questions? Send mail to EMFConference@isb.edu
Funding
Travel support and all local hospitalities for paper presenters and discussants will be available.
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