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The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, held its annual flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance during July 16 - 19, 2009. The conference began with a reception for the participants on Thursday, July 16, evening, followed by paper presentations on July 17 - 19. Ravi Jagannathan (Kellogg and CAF Academic Fellow 2009) delivered a keynote address at the conference.
The theme of the conference was Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. Apart from ISB faculty, the conference programme committee included Viral Acharya, Franklin Allen, Arnaud Boot, Glenn Boyle, Bhagwan Chowdhry, Stijn Claessens, Francesca Cornelli, Sudipto Dasgupta, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Joseph Fan, Charles Hadlock, Kose John, Han Kim, Kai Li, Vojislav Maksimovic, Tom Noe, Terry Odean, NR Prabhala, Manju Puri, Subrata Sarkar, and Anjan Thakor.
Topics
Papers in all areas of corporate finance were 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 were considered. Papers with a focus on new ideas and concepts, or cutting-edge tools and techniques of analysis, were preferred. The conference programme committee anonymously evaluated and ranked the submitted papers. For each session, the selected papers were matched by topic.
Funding
There was a USD 5,000 award generously funded by Citigroup for the best paper presented at the conference. Additionally, if a paper was accepted in the programme,limited travel support was provided for the presenter to attend the conference. For participants at a US school with CIBER, there were CIBER funds available for travel.
Other information
Questions about the conference can be addressed to financeconference09@isb.edu CAF organises two research conferences each year: one in the spring (jointly with Wharton Financial Institutions Center and Swedish Institute for Financial Research) and the other in the summer. While the first conference rotates between Hyderabad, Philadelphia, and Stockholm, the summer conference is held on the ISB campus in Hyderabad. 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/
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