Second Annual CAF - FIC - SIFR Conference in Stockholm
April 17-19, 2008

Starting 2007, the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the ISB, the Financial Institutions Center (FIC) at the Wharton School, and the Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) at Stockholm will organise joint research conferences in the area of emerging market finance. The conferences are annual, held in spring, and rotate between Philadelphia, Stockholm, and Hyderabad.

The second CAF - FIC - SIFR conference will be held in Stockholm, April 17-19, 2008. The theme for this year's conference is Emerging Market Finance. The conference will begin with a reception on the evening of Thursday, April 17, and the sessions will be held on April 18 and 19, 2008.

Papers on all aspects of financial markets in emerging economies are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Capital markets reform
• Law, institutions, and finance
• Banking and financial institutions
• Private equity
• Capital market integration
• Emerging market risks and asset returns

For more information on the conference, visit:
http://www.isb.edu/CAF/UsrSiteEventMgmt.aspx?ModuleID=14&TopicID=62

Summer Research Conference 2008 in Finance
August 7-9, 2008

The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), will host the Summer Research Conference 2008 in Finance during August 7-9, 2008. The Conference will start with a reception for the participants on the evening of August 7, 2008. Paper presentations and discussions will take place on the following two days. The Conference will take place in the Academic Centre at the ISB in Hyderabad, India.

The theme of the Conference is Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. Papers in all areas of corporate finance are welcome, 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.

The deadline for paper submission is March 31, 2008. Please visit the Paper Submission page on the CAF site to submit your paper. All accepted papers will go through two rounds of reviewing: an initial round for appropriateness and quality and, for those papers that pass the initial screening, a final round when they will be ranked against each other. Acceptance/rejection decisions will be communicated to the authors by the first week of May. This procedure resulted in high-quality programmes for our past conferences. To view the programme schedule and the papers presented at our previous conferences, please visit the CAF website at www.isb.edu/CAF

Apart from the 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. Well-known finance scholars from around the world have participated in our research conferences.