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Activity 48th Annual Meeting SWFA
Institution Southwestern Finance Association
Venue Renaissance Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
Date February 24, 2009 to February 28, 2009
Email swfa@southwesternfinance.org
URL http://www.southwesternfinance.org
Additional Info The 48th annual meeting of the Southwestern Finance Association will be held at the Renaissance Hotel, Oklahoma City, February 24-28, 2009. The meeting is held in conjunction with the Federation of Business Disciplines. Research papers covering all aspects of finance and financial education are invited for inclusion on the program. Submission deadline is September 16, 2008. Submission link available on the homepage of the SWFA at http://www.southwesternfinance.org. Papers must not exceed thirty pages. Research proposals should not exceed 6 pages in length. Panel discussion, tutorial, or workshop proposals may be submitted via e-mail to swfa@southwesternfinance.org. Describe the topic under the subject line 2009 SWFA Special Session. Awards: Up to five monetary prizes will be awarded for outstanding papers. Awards are sponsored by the American Association of Individual Investors, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, and up to three awards are funded by SWFA. Only completed papers are eligible to be considered for the awards. Doctoral students are encouraged to submit papers and participate in the program. SWFA will provide two $500 awards for outstanding doctoral student papers. SWFA will offer a $300 stipend to all doctoral students who: 1) present an accepted paper at the conference, 2) attend the Doctoral Student Luncheon and the Doctoral Symposium on Thursday, February 26, and 3) attend the SWFA Luncheon Meeting on Friday, February 27. Doctoral students must also have their department chair, unit head, or dean submit a letter to the VP-Program certifying their doctoral student status. This letter must be received by the VP-Program by February 2, 2009. For additional information contact: Lalatendu Misra, VP-Program Chair Department of Finance University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249-0637 Phone: 210.458.6315 Fax: 210.458.6320 Email: lalatendu.misra@utsa.edu
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Activity An Aspen Institute Web-Conference: Rethinking MBA Curriculum in the Finance Discipline
Institution The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Venue Online - Open to all Finance Faculty and Professionals
Date May 21, 2008
Email alex.roberts@aspeninstitute.org
URL http://aspencbe.org/about/calendar.html
Additional Info The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education Presents: Rethinking MBA Curriculum in the Finance Discipline Featuring: John R. Becker-Blease, Assistant Professor of Finance, Washington State University, Vancouver Moderated by: Maureen Scully, Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston And Mary Gentile, Senior Consultant to Aspen CBE’s Corporate Governance and Accountability Project Time and Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, 1pm - 2pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) Professor Becker-Blease will be discussing the recently revamped core MBA Finance Course at WSU, Vancouver. This new course covers a traditional slate of topics present in most corporate finance courses and also formally introduces students to the stakeholder and shareholder primacy models of the corporate objective function. Additionally, it demonstrates how understanding each of these perspectives can improve managers’ effectiveness as decision-makers. The course, “Problems in Financial Management” is a piece of the innovative work being done as part of Aspen CBE's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project. For more about the philosophy behind this new course, see Professor Becker-Blease’s Case in Point essay, “Do Stakeholders Belong in Corporate Finance?” (http://www.aspencbe.org/documents/John%20Blease%20-Final.pdf) We very much hope that you will accept this invitation. Please RSVP or send any inquiries to Alex.Roberts@aspeninstitute.org. Thank you for your time and attention! Sincerely, Alex Roberts Program Manager Center for Business Education The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
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Activity Special Issue Call for Papers
Institution Corporate Governance: An International Review
Email T.Talaulicar@ww.tu-berlin.de
URL http://www.cgir.org
Submission Deadline March 31, 2009
Additional Info Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) invites paper submissions for a special issue on shareholder activism. Whereas the phenomenon of activist shareholders has a rather long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries, shareholder activism has become more prevalent in other governance environments, too. The popular business press extensively discusses the pros and cons of shareholder activism, but scholarly thought has yet to weigh in substantively. In particular, we are interested in learning more about the antecedents and effects of shareholder activism, as well as more in-depth understanding of the various forms and features of this phenomenon. Research questions that are of particular interest include the following: • Do corporate governance proposals advanced by institutional investors lead to better corporate governance and/or enhanced firm performance? • Do other shareholders and/or stakeholders get ignored when activist investors become more influential? What are the fiduciary duties of activist investors? • How do shareholder activists pick and influence their targets? • How do boards, and how should boards, respond to activist shareholders? • Is shareholder activism more effective than traditional governance mechanisms such as involved and independent boards or formal rules and regulations? • How do the laws vary from nation to nation regarding shareholder activism? It is the tradition of CGIR to welcome a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Both national and international topics are appropriate for consideration, but priority is given to research which spans multiple governance environments. We also invite papers dealing with different types of activist shareholders such as pension funds, (socially responsible) mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign funds, and private equity investors. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2009. More information can be found at www.cgir.org.
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Activity Foro de Finanzas
Institution IMD
Venue ESADE Business School
Barcelona
Spain
Date November 13, 2008 to November 14, 2008
Email forofinanzas@esade.edu
URL http://www.esade.edu/sites/forofinanzas2008/enviotrabajos?lang=ESP
Submission Deadline May 31, 2008
Additional Info The Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN) will hold its 26th Finance Forum ("Foro de Finanzas") in Barcelona (Spain), on November 13 and 14, 2008. You are invited to submit papers to be considered for presentation. The Foro is an annual event whose objective is to provide researchers in finance, regulators, and practitioners with a meeting point to discuss current topics in Finance. The Program is open to all contributions, both theoretical and empirical: asset pricing, corporate finance, corporate governance, market microstructure, portfolio management, risk management, derivatives, banking and international finance. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2008. Papers both in Spanish and English are welcome. Conference Venue: ESADE Business School, Barcelona Program Chair: Arturo Bris, IMD Local Committee Chair: Carmen Ansotegui, ESADE
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Activity Annual London Conference on Money, Economy and Managment
Institution World Business Institute
Venue Imperial College, London
Prices Gate, London, UK
London
UK
Date July 3, 2008 to July 4, 2008
Email papers@wbiint.org
URL http://worldconferencecare.com
Submission Deadline April 23, 2008
Additional Info Abstract and full papers relating to all aspects of finance, banking and economics are invited to this truely international conference. Selected papers will be published in the Global Economy and Finance Journal, and Journal of Business and Policy Research
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Activity Call for Proposals
Institution BSI Gamma Foundation
Venue Zurich, Switzerland
BSI GAMMA Foundation c/o BSI AG Via Magatti 2
Lugano 6900
SWITZERLAND
Email gamma.foundation@bsi.ch
URL http://www.fisher.osu.edu/fin/faculty/stulz/Call%20for%20proposals%202008.pdf
Submission Deadline May 25, 2008
Additional Info For further information, please contact the BSI GAMMA Foundation or its President, Professor René Stulz from the Ohio State University (e-mail: dice@cob.osu.edu; phone: (614) 292 8449.)
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Activity 3rd UNC-Duke Corporate Finance Conference
Institution UNC - Duke
Venue Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill 27599
USA
Date October 31, 2008 to November 1, 2008
URL http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/corpfinance/
Submission Deadline July 15, 2008
Additional Info CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD UNC-DUKE CORPORATE FINANCE CONFERENCE CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, OCTOBER 31 and NOVEMBER 1, 2008 The University of North Carolina and Duke University are organizing a Corporate Finance Conference designed to bring together leading scholars in the field. The symposium will be held in Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon, October 31 and Saturday, November 1, 2008. The conference, which will feature a keynote address by Professor Jeremy Stein of Harvard University, is jointly sponsored by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Wachovia Center for Corporate Finance. Papers in all areas of corporate finance are invited. PAPER SELECTION PROCESS: Papers should be well developed, but at a stage where they can still benefit from the group’s discussion. Preference will be given to recent papers that have not previously been presented at major conferences. Papers will be selected by the finance faculty at UNC and Duke in conjunction with an external program advisory committee consisting of: Franklin Allen, Wharton School Malcolm Baker, Harvard University Milton Harris, University of Chicago Michael Lemmon, University of Utah Antoinette Schoar, M.I.T. PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit an electronic version of the paper (MS Word or PDF format) no later than July 15,2008 through the conference web page: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/conference/corporatefinance/ Paper selection will be finalized by September 1, 2008. For any additional questions please contact Simon Gervais at sgervais@duke.edu or Günter Strobl at strobl@unc.edu.
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Activity Symposium on Stochastic Dynamic Models in Finance and Economics
Institution University of Southern Denmark
Venue Odense, Denmark
Date August 15, 2008 to August 16, 2008
URL http://www.sdu.dk/osbec/symposium?sc_lang=en
Submission Deadline May 30, 2008
Additional Info The symposium will bring together researchers applying stochastic dynamic models in finance and/or economics. Relevant subject areas include, but are not limited to: asset pricing, consumption and portfolio choice, credit risk, real options, economic growth under uncertainty, monetary theory, business cycles. Key note address by Robert C. Merton (Harvard). Other invited talks by Vicky Henderson (Warwick Business School), Thomas Lux (University of Kiel), and Bernt Oksendal (University of Oslo). Around 10 submitted papers will be selected for presentation. Preference will be given to theoretical papers that suggest and explore new dynamic models of financial and economic issues or enhance the understanding of existing models. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf-format to cmu@sam.sdu.dk
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Activity International Workshop on New Financial Intermediaries
Institution University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Gredeg-Cnrs
Venue Nice
France
Date October 16, 2008 to October 17, 2008
Email NFI@gredeg.cnrs.fr
URL http://www.gredeg.cnrs.fr/Colloques/NFI/Index.html
Submission Deadline June 1, 2008
Additional Info Since the beginning of the 80s, the deregulation and the globalization of financial markets and activities have gradually changed the role of the traditional participants in the financial system in developed economies. This process has created new kinds of financial intermediaries, independent of the traditional banking system, and it has led to the expansion of specialized forms of intermediation. For instance, the monitoring of risky projects is externalized by means of rating agencies that play the role initially devoted to banks. Similarly, new intermediaries specialized in the financing of highly risky projects (venture capital) or in the financing of low wealth people (microfinance) have emerged. Simultaneously, along with the emergence and the multiplication of new financial intermediaries, a continuous process of consolidation has taken place within the traditional banking and financial system: in a context of increasing competition traditional segments of banking activities must be compatible with the emergence of new sources of added value. This particular evolution, between larger consolidation and larger specialization, gives rise to numerous questions we address in this conference. What are the new risks and the advantages generated by the development of these new forms of intermediation? Will there be a continuous fragmentation in the market for the services of financial intermediaries, leading to a growing differentiation in the lending condition obtained by high-rated and low-rated borrowers? How does this evolution impact the access of firms to sources of financing? What can we expect concerning the impact on economic growth and economic development?
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Activity International Workshop on Contagion and Financial Stability
Institution Banque de France
Venue Paris
Date May 30, 2008
Email 1391-workshop08-ut@banque-france.fr
URL http://www.banque-france.fr/gb/publications/seminaires/contagion_gb.htm
Additional Info International Workshop on Contagion and Financial stability. Keynote speakers : Mardi Dungey and René Stulz.
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Activity 2008 NTU International Conference on Finance
Institution Finance Dept. of NTU, Taiwan
Venue Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Finance, NTU College of Management No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei City 106
Taipei 106
Taiwan
Date December 11, 2008 to December 12, 2008
Email ntuicf@management.ntu.edu.tw
URL http://www.fin.ntu.edu.tw/~conference
Submission Deadline August 31, 2008
Additional Info The 2008 NTU International Conference on Finance will be held on December 11-12, 2008 in Taipei. Professor E. Han Kim (http://sitemaker.umich.edu/e.han.kim/home) will be the Keynote speaker in coming conference.. Papers on all fields of finance are welcomed, but submission of papers related to related to Financial Surveillance and Corporate Governance is especially encouraged. The submission deadline is August 31, 2008. We will select 5-8 particularly outstanding papers with the special award of USD$ 2,000. All papers should be in English. Please email the following four electronic files in Office Word or Pdf format to ntuicf@managment.ntu.edu.tw with a subject “ 2008 NTU conference paper submission”: (1) Abstract(All submitted papers must be accompanied by an abstract of at least 250 words, but no more than 400 words) (2) Submission ion form: (Please download the file from http://www.fin.ntu.edu.tw/~conference ) (3) Complete paper (4) Complete paper without the name(s) of author(s). You can find all the information about the conference on http://www.fin.ntu.edu.tw/~conference/ or contact Ms. Peggy Lee via Tel:+886-2-33661100 ext 15 ;Fax:+886-2-23660764 ; E-mail:ntuicf@management.ntu.edu.tw
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Activity 6th PARIS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING
Institution AFFI-EUROFIDAI
Venue PARIS
Maison de la mutualité 24, rue saint victor
Paris 75005
France
Date December 18, 2008 to December 19, 2008
Email december2008@eurofidai.org
URL http://www.affi.asso.fr/december2008us.html
Submission Deadline June 2, 2008
Additional Info CALL FOR PAPERS 6th PARIS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING PARIS December 18-19th 2008 http://www.affi.asso.fr/december2008us.html The annual Paris finance international meeting is organized by AFFI (French Finance Association) and EUROFIDAI (European Financial Data Institute). All researchers in finance are invited to hear and present in English their latest research in all areas of finance and insurance. There is no charge to submit to the conference. Only electronic submissions will be considered. For that, submit two files in PDF format : - one copy of the paper without the name/s of author/s - one copy of the complete paper including the following information : The Abstract, the title, name(s) of the author(s), complete address(s), telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses for each author (Please indicate which author(s) will attend and which author will present the paper). E-mail your paper to december2008@eurofidai.org and ensure that the organization committee acknowledges receipt of your paper. DEADLINE : Papers must be submitted electronically by June, the 2nd of 2008. Authors will be notified by September, the 1st of 2008. Accepted papers will be posted on the Financial Economic Network and the website of the French Finance Association. CONFERENCE LOCATION Maison de la Mutualité 24 rue Saint-Victor 75005 Paris (France) PROGRAM CHAIRS Patrice Fontaine (EUROFIDAI, Université de Grenoble 2) Jean-François Gajewski (IREGE, Université de Savoie (IMUS))
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Activity EFM2009 Symposium on 'Corporate Governance and Control'
Institution JUDGE Business School, Cambridge University
Venue University of Cambridge,Judge Business School,Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG,UK
Date April 9, 2009 to April 11, 2009
Email jdoukas@odu.edu
URL http://www.efmaefm.org/0EFMSYMPOSIUM/CGC%202009/efm_sympo2009.shtml
Submission Deadline November 1, 2008
Additional Info The EFM2009 Symposium will focus on Corporate Governance and Control issues. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: Corporate Ownership, Corporate Control, Shareholder Voting, Proxy Fights, Corporate Governance and Investor Rights, Managerial Compensation and Incentives, Board Effectiveness and Incentives, Corporate Governance and Political Influence, Behavioral Aspects of Corporate Governance, among others. Publication: All papers accepted for the symposium are eligible to be considered for publication in the EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT in a special issue devoted to the symposium. If you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the EFM, please indicate so in your cover letter. Papers will be reviewed for the EFM upon receipt using its normal refereeing criteria.
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Activity EFM2009 Symposium on Risk Management in Financial Institutions
Institution AUDENCIA School of Management, Nantes, France
Venue AUDENCIA School of Management – Nantes,8 route de la Jonelière, BP 31222, 44312 NANTES Cedex 3, France
Date April 23, 2009 to April 25, 2009
Email jdoukas@odu.edu
URL http://www.efmaefm.org/0EFMSYMPOSIUM/Nantes%202009/efm_sympo2009.shtml
Submission Deadline November 1, 2008
Additional Info The EFM Symposium will focus on all aspects of risk management in financial institutions. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: . Market, credit, operational, liquidity and integrated risk management • Investment management and hedge fund risk • Energy and commodity market evolution and the impact on risk management • Capital adequacy, Solvency II, IAS/IFRS and Basel II • Financial institution failures and systemic risk • Valuation and pricing techniques for financial products • Microfinance, micro-insurance and risk management Publication: All papers accepted for the symposium are eligible to be considered for publication in the EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT in a special issue devoted to the symposium. If you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the EFM, please indicate so in your cover letter. Papers will be reviewed for the EFM upon receipt using its normal criteria.
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Activity Campus for Finance - Research conference
Institution WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Venue 56179 Vallendar
Burgplatz 2
Vallendar 56179
Germany
Date January 14, 2009 to January 15, 2009
Email volker.seiler@whu.edu
URL http://www.campus-for-finance.com/index.php?id=685
Submission Deadline August 15, 2008
Additional Info We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all areas of finance to the Campus for Finance - Research Conference, taking place at WHU in Vallendar, Germany on January 14 & 15, 2009. We try to establish a private banking session. Authors with papers in this field please feel encouraged to submit papers. Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008. All submitted papers must be in English. The academic board will award the WHU Finance Award including a prize of 1000 EUR for the best paper and 500 EUR for the second winner.
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Activity ESSEC Private Equity Chair First Annual Conference on
Institution ESSEC
Venue Cergy-Pontoise, France
Avenue Bernard Hirsch BP 50105
CERGY-PONTOISE CEDEX 95021
CERGY
Date October 24, 2008 to October 25, 2008
Email olive@essec.fr
URL http://www.essec-private-equity.com/us/annual_conference/index.html
Submission Deadline June 1, 2008
Additional Info The ESSEC Private Equity Chair, with the support of the ESSEC Research Center, organizes its 1st annual conference, dedicated to the theme "Private Equity and Corporate Governance". The conference is an opportunity to present state-of-the-art international research on major issues regarding, and related to, Private Equity. Research papers in the following topics are especially encouraged: 1. Monitoring mechanisms and how they create value in Private Equity (PE) 2. Theory and empirics of going private vs. going public decision 3. Governance structures and contractual frameworks of PE funds 4. Leverage structures in private and public equity: pricing, structuring, and incentive effects 5. Addressing multi-sided conflicts of interest in PE Scientific committee: Viral Acharya (London Business School), Ulf Axelson (Swedish Institute of Financial Research), Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics), Yael Hochberg (Northwestern University), Steve Kaplan (University of Chicago, GSB), Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim), Ayako Yasuda (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Sridhar Arcot (ESSEC Business School), José-Miguel Gaspar (ESSEC Business School). Submission of papers: Submission of relevant theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented research is encouraged. To submit a paper, and have more info on the conference, go to http://www.essec-private-equity.com/us/annual_conference/index.html.The deadline for submission is June 1st, 2008.
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Activity FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES AND MARKETS AT THE CROSS ROADS
Institution University of Amsterdam and York University
Venue Amsterdam
Date September 26, 2008 to September 27, 2008
Email acle@uva.nl
URL http://www.kernbureau.uva.nl/acle/home.cfm/65A7DC31-1321-B0BE-A422303AB7271EA6
Submission Deadline April 10, 2008
Additional Info In many respects, the financial landscape is in flux. Financial intermediaries and markets are increasingly intertwined - developments in securitization are just one example. Financial institutions themselves are also becoming more and more diverse. The financial sector has evolved from a more bank-centered world of financial intermediation to one that includes all kinds of more specialized financial institutions, including hedge funds and private equity firms. These developments raise important questions regarding: The stability of the financial sector; The organization of supervision and other regulatory issues, including the role of credit rating agencies (and other gatekeepers); The interaction between the financial sector and the real economy; The role of financial intermediaries in the funding of corporations; Corporate control implications (e.g. role sovereign wealth funds). Program committee: The organizers are Arnoud Boot and Joe McCahery of the University of Amsterdam and Douglas Cumming of York University. The Program Committee consists of Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard University), Patrick Bolton (Columbia University), Nick Bollen (Vanderbilt University), Alon Brav (Duke University), Stijn Claessens (IMF and University of Amsterdam), Bill Fung (London), David Hseih (Duke University), Bing Liang (Amherst), Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (University of Amsterdam), Nadia Massoud (York University), Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II), Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam), Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim), Anjan Thakor (Washington University). Sponsors: The University of Amsterdam, York University and ECGI, in collaboration with the Review of Finance (RoF). Submissions for inclusion in the program (full papers or abstracts) may be sent by email to: acle@uva.nl. Please indicate: 'Submission for RoF-Amsterdam-2008'. Please indicate whether you would like your paper to be considered for publication in the RoF. Submitting to the conference does not require submitting to the journal.
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Activity Workshop on Financial Market Quality
Institution Université Paris-Dauphine
Venue Euronext-Paris
39, rue Cambon 75001 Paris M° Madeleine, Concorde, Havre-Caumartin
Paris 75001
France
Date May 14, 2008
URL http://www.dauphine.fr/cereg/page.php?id=31
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Activity 11th Symposium on Banking, Finance & Insurance
Institution University of Karlsruhe
Date December 17, 2008 to December 19, 2008
Email symposium@fbv.uni-karlsruhe.de
URL http://symposium.fbv.uni-karlsruhe.de
Submission Deadline May 31, 2008
Additional Info The principal objective of the symposium is to encourage further research in the areas of banking, finance, and insurance, and to strengthen the cooperation between academia and industry. We encourage the submission of academic papers. The focus of the conference is: (1) Corporate Finance and Integrated Financial Services, (2) Financial Engineering, Asset Pricing and Derivatives, (3) Risk control, Solvency, Insurance and Risk Management, and (4) Exchanges and Trading Systems, Information Services in Finance Other interesting topics related to the field of finance and insurance are welcome.
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Activity 8th International Finance Conference
Institution Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Venue Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
3363 Alameda Av, Estacion Central
Santiago de Chile
Chile
Date October 1, 2008 to October 3, 2008
Email efinanzas@lauca.usach.cl
URL http://www.conferenciafinanzas.cl
Submission Deadline April 30, 2008
Additional Info Dr. Ignacio Vélez Pareja, Chairman, 8th International Finance Conference and Américo Ibarra Lara, Executive Director, International Finance Conference, cordially invite academicians, businessmen, executives, officials and general public to present their research papers and to take part in this new version of this meeting, which will be held at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. This time, the Conference is scheduled for 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October; 2008. This venue will serve as assembly point for representatives from the business, governmental and academic world. The deadline for sending research papers is 30th of April, 2008
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Activity 15th Annual MF Conference
Institution Multinational Finance Society
Venue Orlando, Florida, USA
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 227 PENN STREET
CAMDEN, NJ 08102
USA
Date July 6, 2008 to July 9, 2008
Email mfs@camden.rutgers.edu
URL http://mfs.rutgers.edu
Submission Deadline February 25, 2008
Additional Info Feature Speakers: Laurence Booth – University of Toronto, Canada "Modern developments in Corporate Finance" James McDonald – Brigham Young University, USA "Probability Distributions in Finance: Estimation, VaR and Pricing" Gordon Sick – University of Calgary, Canada "Real Options in Capital Budgeting"
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Activity 25th symposium on Money, Banking and Finance
Institution CNRS European Research Group in
Venue Luxembourg University
Luxembourg
Date June 19, 2008 to June 20, 2008
URL http://www.univ-orleans.fr/deg/GDRecomofi/Activ/call2008.htm
Submission Deadline February 19, 2008
Additional Info Keynote speaker: Reinhard Selten, Nobel Prize.
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Activity 5th Conference on Actuarial Science and Finance
Institution University of the Aegean
Venue Karlovassi
Karlovassi 83200
Greece
Date September 4, 2008 to September 7, 2008
Email asf2008@actuar.aegean.gr
URL http://www.actuar.aegean.gr/Samos2008/
Submission Deadline April 30, 2008
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Activity Banking and Finance Conference
Institution Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies
Date September 29, 2008 to September 30, 2008
URL http://www.melbournecentre.com.au/Finsia_MCFS_Conference.htm
Submission Deadline April 14, 2008
Additional Info 13th Finsia-Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies Banking and Finance Conference 29th + 30th September 2008 Melbourne, Australia The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) is the major finance industry professional association for Australia and New Zealand with over 20,000 members worldwide. The Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies is a research centre formed by a consortium of Melbourne, Monash and RMIT Universities in association with Finsia and Victorian Government and industry support. The Conference serves as an interface between academics and professionals in the banking and financial services industry. The conference format involves addresses from keynote speakers and senior finance industry practitioners each morning and concurrent sessions of peer reviewed research papers each afternoon. For further details refer to the conference website http://www.melbournecentre.com.au/Finsia_MCFS_Conference.htm
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Activity The 6th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance and Accounting
Institution Center for the Study of Banking and Finance, National Taiwan University(NTU-CSBF),Hakka Forum Association (THFA) and Banking Education Association of Taiwan (BEAT)
Venue NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Date May 20, 2008 to May 22, 2008
Email csbf@management.ntu.edu.tw
URL http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/~csbf
Submission Deadline January 20, 2008
Additional Info National Taiwan University’s Center for the Study of Banking and Finance (NTU-CSBF) ,Hakka Forum Association (THFA) and Banking Education Association of Taiwan (BEAT) will jointly sponsor The 6th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance and Accounting (IEFA), on May 20-22, 2008. Concurrent sessions include keynote address, general sessions, panel discussions and academic paper sessions. We are very honored to have Dr. Hayne Ellis Leland as our keynote speaker. Dr. Hayne Ellis Leland is a Arno Rayner Professor of Finance and Management, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. We solicit submission of theoretical and empirical papers that study issues in “Financial Engineering and Financial Intermediation.” We are broadly interested in research in economics, finance (including insurance) and accounting fields. Topics relevant to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Financial Engineering and Financial Computation, Structured Finance, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Financial Institutions and Enterprise Financing Decision, Market Microstructure , Capital Market and Investment Strategy, International Finance and Investment, Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality, Earnings Forecast and Financial information, Auditing. You are invited to participate in the Conference and to submit research papers. Completed academic papers are preferred. Papers submitted will be blind-reviewed by an international panel of reviewers. The organizers will sponsor three to eight best paper awards of US$1,000~US$2,000. For more information, please visit our Web site. Submission deadline is January 20, 2008. Submit one paper copy of manuscripts or email to: Chairs: Professor Dar-Yeh Hwang, Professor Hsiou-Wei W. Lin and Professor Chi-Chun Liu Center for the Study of Banking and Finance (NTU-CSBF) College of Management National Taiwan University Tel: 886-2-2738-9512 Fax: 886-2-2738-9515
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Activity 4th Annual Banking Symposium - Call for papers
Institution Bocconi University
Venue Milan, Italy
Department of Finance University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7168
United States
Date May 29, 2008 to May 30, 2008
Email flannery@ufl.edu
URL http://www.finirs.org/Bocconi_2008_call.pdf
Submission Deadline February 25, 2008
Additional Info The Fourth Annual (2008) European Banking Symposium May 29-30, 2008 Universita’ Bocconi Milano, Italy Sponsored and organized by Bocconi - Carefin ProBanker Simulations Maastricht University – Department of Finance
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Activity RS-DeGroote 3rd Annual Conference on Market Structure and Market Integrity
Institution DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Venue Le Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel
37 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1E9
Canada
Date November 10, 2008
Email malcolj@mcmaster.ca
URL http://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/faculty/rsconference08.aspx
Submission Deadline June 30, 2008
Additional Info CALL FOR PAPERS - 3rd Annual Conference on Market Structure and Market Integrity. November 10th, 2008 at Le Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel – Toronto, Ontario Canada. BEST PAPER PRIZE: $10,000.00. The DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University and Market Regulation Services Inc. are sponsoring a one-day conference in Toronto, Canada on November 10, 2008 to explore these and other current issues relating to market structure and market integrity. The conference will bring together leading international academic researchers, regulators, industry professionals and students to explore with their peers current issues, trends, challenges and opportunities in market structure and market integrity issues. The organizers invite submissions addressing any of the following, or related, topics:• The future of SRO regulation • The regulation of short sales • Investment research • Best execution • Trade-throughs • Access fees and market data • Debt and derivatives markets. In addition to these themes, papers addressing other areas of market structure and market integrity research are welcomed. Papers may be conceptual, theoretical, empirical, experimental or case studies, and will be reviewed on a blind basis by members of the program committee. BEST PAPER AWARD - $10,000.00. The program committee will select one paper presented at the conference for a BEST PAPER AWARD of CDN$10,000.00. PLEASE NOTE THESE IMPORTANT DATES: June 30, 2008: Submission of full paper. Send paper to: malcolj@mcmaster.ca. September 2, 2008: Notification Period Begins. October 13, 2008: Registration and fees due. For further information contact: Janice Malcolm – Conference Planner, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Tel: 905-525-9140 ext 26372, malcolj@mcmaster.ca
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Activity Conference on the Corporate Finance and Governance of Privately Held Firms
Institution Centre for Corporate Governance Research
Venue Norwegian School of Management (BI)
Oslo
Norway
Date May 23, 2008 to May 24, 2008
Email CCGR@bi.no
URL http://www.bi.no/ccgr-conference
Submission Deadline March 1, 2008
Additional Info Privately held firms account for the largest portion of value creation and employment in virtually any country around the world. These firms are likely to evolve and utilize governance structures and to face specific financing challenges that are very different from publicly traded corporations. The objective of the conference is to take some initial steps toward a better understanding of how privately held firms are governed and financed.
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Activity Conference: Financial Econometrics and Vast Data
Institution University of Oxford
Venue Oxford
Date September 15, 2008 to September 16, 2008
Email vast.events@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk
URL http://www.oxford-man.ox.ac.uk/documents/events/Conference%202008.pdf
Submission Deadline May 15, 2008
Additional Info Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford. Call for Papers for Conference on “Financial Econometrics & Vast Data” The conference will bring together researchers with an interest in using high frequency data and those interested in estimating multivariate dependence objects such as covariance matrices. We hope there would be overlap between these two communities, but papers which focus on one of the aspects would also be welcomed. Scientific committee: Tim Bollerslev, Peter Hansen, Jianqing Fan, Nour Meddahi, Per Mykland, Neil Shephard.
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Activity International Conference on Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risk
Institution Center of Finance and Econometrics
Venue University of Konstanz
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Guenter Franke University of Konstanz P.O. Box D 147
Konstanz 78457
Germany
Date October 3, 2008 to October 4, 2008
Email guenter.franke@uni-konstanz.de
URL http://www.uni-konstanz.de/fin.conf2008
Submission Deadline May 31, 2008
Additional Info The conference will be held at the University of Konstanz on October 3-4, 2008, starting with a welcome reception on October 2. It is organized by the Research Group „Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks: Measurement and Distribution“, which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The group consists of researchers in financial economics, financial econometrics, and financial mathematics at the Universities of Konstanz, Mannheim and the Vienna University of Technology. The Program Committee Financial Economics: Michael Brennan, UCLA Guenter Franke, Konstanz Financial Econometrics: Luc Bauwens, CORE Winfried Pohlmeier, Konstanz Financial Mathematics: Ansgar Juengel, Vienna Walter Schachermayer, Vienna The two-day conference will include presentations in the areas of price, liquidity and credit risks. Papers may focus on issues of either Financial Economics or Financial Econometrics or Financial Mathematics or a combination of these fields. We invite the submission of papers in these fields. Each submitted paper should state on the cover page to which of the three fields it belongs and give 3 – 5 keywords. All submitted papers will be reviewed. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than August 1, 2008. Papers should be submitted electronically as a pdf-file in two versions. In the first version the cover page should display the title of the paper and the authors including the corresponding author and his/her affiliation. The second version should start with the abstract of the paper, without the cover page. The paper should be sent to: FinanceConference2008@uni-konstanz.de Center of Finance and Econometrics University of Konstanz P.O. Box D 147 78457 Konstanz / GERMANY For further information contact: Günter Franke e-mail: guenter.franke@uni-konstanz.de Tel. +49 7531 / 88 2543 , Fax +49 7531 / 88 3559
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Activity AsianFA-NFA 2008 International Conference
Institution Asian Finance Association and Nippon Finance Association
Venue Pacifico Yokohama international convention center, Yokohama, Japan
Date July 6, 2008 to July 9, 2008
URL http://fs.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/nfa-net/
Submission Deadline January 15, 2008
Additional Info The Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) and the Nippon Finance Association (NFA) jointly organize a conference during 6th-9th July, 2008 at the Pacifico Yokohama international convention center in Japan. (Yokohama is located in the west of Tokyo and is just about 30-40 minutes train ride from the center of Tokyo. It is a beautiful port city with 150 years history, and has excellent facilities and places of interest.) Presentations of research papers, panel discussions, special sessions, and keynote speeches are held from 7th through 9th July. On 6th July, a PhD symposium cosponsored by the Financial Management Association (FMA) is organized. We are honored to have the following respected scholars as our plenary keynote speakers: Professor George M. Constantinides (Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago), Professor Eduardo S. Schwartz (Anderson School of Management, UCLA), Professor Kenneth J. Singleton (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University), and Professor Ralph A. Walkling (LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, and President of FMA). The highlights of the conference include: Over 250 international ademic papers, Ph.D. symposium, and distinguished scholars invited to speak in special sessions. Authors of academic papers are invited to submit the papers electronically via the conference website. The International Review Panel will assess the papers using the normal double-blind review process. The papers accepted for presentation are eligible to compete for one of several awards.
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Activity Conference/Special Issue
Institution Case Western Reserve University
Venue Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Email scott.shane@case.edu
URL http://www.kauffman.org/kfs/News_Detail.cfm?news_id=257
Submission Deadline May 15, 2008
Additional Info Although most scholars recognize the importance of understanding how new companies are financed, they have made relatively little progress in investigating this process empirically, largely because of the lack of available data. However, in recent years, some scholars have begun to examine entrepreneurial finance questions using large, representative databases, and new datasets are now available that permit the examination of these questions in ways not possible previously. To encourage the investigation of these databases, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are co-sponsoring a conference on entrepreneurial finance, to take place in Cleveland, Ohio at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on March 12-13, 2009. A pre-conference will be held at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO., on August 21-22, 2008. A subset of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
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Activity 2008 European Finance Association Meetings
Institution European Finance Association
Venue Astir Palace, Vouliagmeni - A Starwood Resort
Athens, Greece
Date August 27, 2008 to August 30, 2008
Email maria.vassalou@soros.com
URL http://www.efa2008.org
Submission Deadline March 1, 2008
Additional Info I am pleased to announce the 2008 European Finance Association Meetings to be held in Athens (Vouliagmeni), Greece, August 27-30, 2008. Papers on all areas of finance are invited for submission. The meetings will also include a Symposium on Endowment and Philanthropic Institutions Asset Management. The Keynote Speaker of the 2008 EFA Meetings is Professor Myron Scholes, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Maria Vassalou, PhD Chair, EFA 2008
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Activity Symposium on Corporate Governance in China and India
Institution Corporate Governance: An International Reivew and Old Dominion University
Venue Virginia Beach, VA
Dept of Business Administration Old Dominion University
Norfolk VA 23529
USA
Date October 24, 2008 to October 25, 2008
Email sli@odu.edu
URL http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/symposium/corg/
Submission Deadline March 30, 2008
Additional Info Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) and Old Dominion University are organizing this symposium to encourage research on corporate governance issues relating to China and India. We invite authors to submit papers about corporate governance in China and India, comparative studies of the two countries, or firms from the two countries, that focus on the following topics:  Governance Environment: Formal (e.g., legal framework) and informal (e.g., culture) institutions that affect firm operations  Ownership Structure: Family-controlled, cross-shareholding, and other types, and shareholder’s rights and protections  Role of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance: Relationship between government, society, international investors, and business  Disclosure and Transparency: Accounting standards, information quality and dissemination, and market pressure for good corporate governance  Responsibilities of the Board: Role, composition, and independence  CEO and top management team: Roles, compensation, succession, and appraisal. The Symposium will feature keynote speeches by prominent experts, research paper presentations, and round-table discussions. All papers submitted to the symposium will be double-blind reviewed for acceptance. The best papers from the symposium will be considered for publication in a special issue of CGIR. We welcome manuscripts that are (1) theoretically and methodologically rigorous and innovative, and (2) provide insights that are useful to executives, directors, and/or public policy makers engaged in corporate governance matters. Submissions must be made by March 30, 2008 through the CGIR Manuscript Central system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/corg. Please mark your submission to go to the "China & India" Special Issue.
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Activity EFMA 2008, 17TH Annual Meetings
Institution EFMA
Venue EFMA 2008 CONFERENCE, ATHENS, GREECE
Divani Apollon Palace & Spa, 10 Ag. Nikolaou & Iliou Str.,
Vouliagmeni, ATHENS 16671
GREECE
Date June 25, 2008 to June 28, 2008
Email mkavus@aueb.gr
URL http://www.efmaefm.org/index.shtml
Submission Deadline January 15, 2008
Additional Info Keynote Speaker: Professor MICHAEL BRENNAN The European Financial Management Association will hold its 17th Annual Meeting in ATHENS (GREECE), June 25-28, 2008. Publication. A set of papers presented at the meeting will be selected by the 2008 Program Co-Chairs and will be published in a regular issue of the European Financial Management journal, in cooperation with the Managing Editor. Deadline. The deadline for papers and proposals is January 15, 2008 Authors will be notified by March 4, 2008. Please submit your paper electronically to the European Financial Management Association Conference at: http://www.efmaefm.org CONTACT: Manolis Kavussanos & Stavros Thomadakis Program Co-Chairs 2008 Meeting Email: mkavus@aueb.gr, thomadakis@econ.uoa.gr
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Activity Research Conference on Institutional Investors and the Asset Management Industry
Institution Lundquist College of Business Finance dept
Venue University of Oregon
1208 University of Oregon
Eugene 97403
USA
Date July 31, 2008 to August 1, 2008
Email dianedg@uoregon.edu
URL http://lcb.uoregon.edu/departments/finl/CALL_FOR_PAPERS_Oregon.pdf
Submission Deadline April 1, 2008
Additional Info The Finance department at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon solicits submission of empirical and theoretical papers that study issues involving institutional investors and the asset management industry in which they operate. We are broadly interested in research on how investors choose, monitor, and evaluate money managers and on how money managers innovate and compete. Institutional investors include professional portfolio managers of open- and closed-end mutual funds, pension funds, venture capital funds, banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, and exchange traded funds. Topics relevant to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Contracting issues and organizational form; Performance evaluation; Effects of taxes and transaction costs; Investor (client) behavior; Regulation and disclosure requirements; Institutional trading strategies; Governance and asset management; Submission deadline is April 1, 2008. Authors will be notified of paper selection by May 1, 2008. The conference fee of $250 includes meals that begin with dinner on July 30th and conclude with lunch on August 1st. Participants are responsible for airfare and lodging. An electronic copy of the manuscript should be submitted to: Diane Del Guercio (dianedg@uoregon.edu) Direct any questions to: Professor John Chalmers (jchalmer@uoregon.edu) or Professor Diane Del Guercio (dianedg@uoregon.edu)
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Activity PARIS FINANCE 2007 DECEMBER 20-21
Institution eurofidai - University of Grenoble 2
Venue PARIS FINANCE 2007 DECEMBER 20-21
150 rue de la chimie - domaine universitaire
GRENOBLE CEDEX BP 47
France
Date December 20, 2007 to December 21, 2007
Email december2007@affi.asso.fr
URL http://www.affi.asso.fr/december2007us.html
Submission Deadline September 15, 2007
Additional Info CALL FOR PAPERS PARIS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING December 20-21st 2007 http://www.affi.asso.fr/december2007us.html The annual Paris finance international meeting is jointly organized by the French Finance Association (AFFI) and the European Financial Data Institute (EUROFIDAI). All researchers in finance are invited to hear and present in English their latest research in all areas of finance. These areas include: asset pricing, behavioural finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, derivatives, emerging markets, financial institutions, finance theory, market microstructure, mathematical finance, financial econometrics, real estate finance and other papers of general interest. PHD candidates and young researchers are also invited to participate to the 2nd European Job Market in Finance and Accounting and the 4th French Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF) Job Market Forum in Finance organized by the EIF on December the 19th. For registration and more details, see the following link (http://www.europlace-finance.com/jobmarket07) There is no charge to submit to the conference. Only electronic submissions will be considered. On the website (http://www.affi.asso.fr/december2007us.html), click on Call for papers for submission details. For more information, please contact december2007@affi.asso.fr DEADLINE Papers must be submitted electronically by September, the 16th of 2007. Authors will be notified by November, the 1st of 2007. Accepted papers will be posted on the Financial Economic Network and the website of the French Finance Association. CONFERENCE LOCATION Maison de la Mutualité 24 rue Saint-Victor 75005 Paris (France) PROGRAM CHAIRS Patrice Fontaine (EUROFIDAI, Université de Grenoble 2) Jean-François Gajewski (IRG, Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne)
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Activity Conference on Credit Risk
Institution GRETA, Venice
Venue Venice
Date September 27, 2007 to September 28, 2007
Email credit@greta.it
URL http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2007/credit2007.htm
Submission Deadline May 15, 2007
Additional Info C. R. E. D. I. T. 2007 CREDIT RATING GRETA Associati (Venice, Italy), Intesa Sanpaolo (Milan, Italy), Fitch Ratings and CRIF Decision Solutions (Bologna, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 27-28, 2007. The Conference is the sixth of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk. The organizers encourage submissions of papers in particular in the following areas in particular: • General Issues: Rating stability and studies of rating migration behaviour; Statistical vs. implied default probabilities / ratings: explanations of the differences; Backtesting of rating and PD models; The new role of rating agencies after Basel II and its implications; Point in time and trough the cycle rating; The definition of rating classes in terms of default probability: PD intervals or punctual values? The comparison among different rating quantification techniques • Issuer and Issue Rating: The integration in the master scale; From the issuer to the issue rating: the notching methodologies • Rating of structured finance products: Rating and risk assessment of CDOs and leveraged credit transactions, e.g. CPPI (constant proportion portfolio insurance) and CPDO (constant proportion debt obligation) transactions; Integration of Market and Credit Risk assessment for SF transactions; Rating and risk assessment of Asset Backed Securitisation transactions; Achieving rating consistency across different asset classes The SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE for the Conference consists of: • Philipp Schönbucher, DMATH – ETH Zürich, Programme Chair • Greg M. Gupton, Quantitative Financial Research, Fitch Ratings • Alexander J. McNeil, School of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh • William Perraudin, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit completed versions or extended abstracts by May 15, 2007. Please send papers or extended abstracts to: GRETA Associati, San Marco, 3870 - 30124 Venice, ITALY; e-mail: credit@greta.it
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