Summer Research Conference 2008: Indian School Of Business

Event: Summer Research Conference in Finance (Website)

Organized By: Center for Analytical Finance (CAF), at ISB

Key Dates:
Conference : August 7 - 9, 2008
Deadline for paper submission: March 31, 2008

The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) will host the Summer Research Conference 2008 in Finance. The theme of the Conference is Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. Papers in all areas of corporate finance can be submitted, including corporate financing and agency costs, corporate investment decisions and real options, corporate finance and product markets, control rights and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, institutional and legal framework of financing decisions, behavioral implications, and corporate financing in emerging markets. Theoretical as well as empirical papers will be considered. Papers with a focus on new ideas and concepts, or cutting-edge tools and techniques of analysis, will be preferred.

Apart from ISB faculty, the conference programme committee will include a roster of top researchers in corporate finance based in Asia, Europe, and North America. There will be a USD 5,000 award generously funded by Citigroup for the best paper presented at the Conference. CAF organises two research conferences each year: one in the spring (April) and the other in the summer (August). The first conference is organised jointly with Wharton Financial Institutions Center and Swedish Institute for Financial Research, and rotates between Hyderabad, Philadelphia, and Stockholm.

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