Call for Papers: Conference On Emerging Markets Finance

Call for papers

Conference On Emerging Markets Finance

20 and 21st December 2011

Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research

Bombay, India

We are inviting submission of papers to a conference on "Emerging markets finance". This conference will feature state of the art research in emerging markets, with an accent on policy issues. It will also serve as a forum for discussion and debate between market participants, policy makers and academics.

Topics of interest include:

Unique features of EM asset pricing
Liquidity and liquidity risk in EMs
Risk measurement and risk management
New thinking in market design
How EM corporations finance themselves
Corporate governance in EMs
Political economy of finance
Consequences of infirmities of regulation and supervision
Law and finance in the EM finance setting

The conference will feature a small number of papers, with a designated discussant, thus allowing adequate time for each paper. There will be a conference website where all the papers and slideshows are collected together. Details of the previous conference can be viewed at http://www.igidr.ac.in/~susant/FSRR/conf2010.html

EXPENSES:

Travel (economy class round-trip) and accommodation expenses will be covered for academic speakers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Viral Acharya, NYU

Ravi Anshuman, IIM Bangalore

Bhagwan Chowdhury, UCLA

Subrata Sarkar, IGIDR

Ajay Shah, NIPFP

Avinadhar Subramanyam, UCLA

Ram Thirumalai, ISB Hyderabad

Susan Thomas, IGIDR

Jayanth Varma, IIM Ahmedabad

Pradeep Yadav, Univ of Oklahoma

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Viral Acharya, Stern School, NYU

Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

U. K. Sinha, Chairman, Securities and Exchanges Board of India

Avinadhar Subramanyam, UCLA

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Please email a pdf file of the paper to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it who is Ms. Jyoti Manke

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