Summer Research Conference in Finance during July 16 - 19, 2009

The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, will hold its annual flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance during July 16 - 19, 2009. The conference will begin 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) will deliver a keynote address at the conference.

The theme of the conference is Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. Apart from ISB faculty, the conference program committee includes 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 are 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 will be considered. Papers with a focus on new ideas and concepts, or cutting-edge tools and techniques of analysis, will be preferred. The conference program committee will anonymously evaluate and rank the submitted papers. For each session, the selected papers will be matched by topic.

Funding
There will be USD 5,000 award generously funded by Citigroup for the best paper presented at the conference. Additionally, if a paper is accepted in the program, we will provide limited travel support for the presenter to attend the conference. We hope that the other participants will be able to pay for their transportation to and from Hyderabad from their own research and travel budget. For participants at a U.S. school with CIBER, there may be CIBER funds available for travel.

Other information
Questions about the conference can be addressed to financeconference09@isb.edu CAF organizes 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 program 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/