Call for Papers
Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad Campus

The Centre for Analytical Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, invites submissions for its annual flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance. The conference is scheduled from July 24, 2024 to July 26, 2024. Just like before, the conference will focus on "Recent Advances in Finance."

We invite papers from all areas of Finance. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Fresh papers or papers with new ideas, concepts, or methods will be preferred.
 
Paper Selection
We tentatively aim to have eight papers in this year's programme. Presenters can expect quality discussants, an active audience, and informal interactions with participants. 

Organising Committee

Sumit Agarwal – Conference Co-Chair, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore, Managing Director at the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute

Bhagwan Chowdhry – Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Finance, Executive Director, Digital Identity Research Initiative (DIRI), and Faculty Director, 
I-Venture,Indian School of Business

Amit Goyal - Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Business and Economics, Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lausanne

Prasanna Tantri - Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Finance and Executive Director at the Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Independent Director, Power Finance Corporation Limited

Funding

For presenters and discussants, we will provide a travel grant and cover local transfers, conference stay, and meals. We warmly welcome other conference participants. We hope that you can take care of the accommodation and pay for travel to and from Hyderabad from your research budget or from sources such as CIBER.

Submitting Papers

Please visit Summer Research Conference 2024 (isb.edu).  Go to the paper submission page and upload the paper. 

The submission deadline is April 20, 2024.
Best Paper Award
CAF confers the best paper award, which consists of cash prize of USD 5,000 and a certificate of merit. The best paper award committee is headed by the keynote speaker. The opinion expressed by audience through an audience poll will be considered by the committee.

Tarun Ramadorai is Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College London. He has a broad range of research interests, spanning household finance, financial economics, behavioral economics, real estate, and international finance. He has published on these topics in a number of scholarly journals in finance and economics including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has received several awards for his research, including the Brattle prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance. 

Tarun currently serves as Editor of the Review of Financial Studies. He has previously served as an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, and as a council member of the Society of Financial Studies. He is currently a Director of the European Finance Association, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Senior Academic Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research (ABFER), and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). 

He has served in a range of policy and practice roles in addition to his academic work, including Chairman of the Inter-Regulatory Committee on Household Finance constituted by the Reserve Bank of India, Visiting Scholar at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, Economic Adviser to the European Securities and Markets Authority, and Allocation Advisory Board Member for the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (NBIM). He currently serves as co-chair of the Fintech workstream of the India-UK Financial Partnership. 

Tarun has a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Williams College, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Prior to his role at Imperial, Tarun spent over a decade at the University of Oxford. 

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