Dear IFM Member,
If you have a paper related to the below Call, please consider submitting. The Darden conference is somewhat different from many conferences in that we (i) don't have formal discussants, (ii) invite practitioners as well as academics, and (iii) strive to get a conversation going between practitioners and academics. If that sounds interesting to you, please consider submitting. Deadline is in 13 days.
Best,
Frank
Frank Warnock<http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/warnockf/>
Paul M. Hammaker Associate Professor of Business Administration
Darden Business School
University of Virginia
Call for Papers
The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
is pleased to announce the
9th ANNUAL DARDEN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CONFERENCE
Access to Capital
Presented in partnership with
The Research Foundation of the CFA Institute
The International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank
The Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia
March 18-19, 2010
Program Organizers: Stijn Claessens (IMF), Campbell Harvey (Duke), René Stulz (Ohio State), Frank Warnock (Darden)
Program Committee: Yiorgos Allayannis (Darden), Thomas Chevrier (State Street), Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Mihir Desai (Harvard), Jessica Donohue (State Street), Alexander Dyck (Toronto), Vihang Errunza (McGill), Richard Evans (Darden), Mara Faccio (Purdue), John Griffin (Texas), Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore), Andrew Karolyi (Cornell), Luc Laeven (IMF), Christian Leuz (Chicago), Ross Levine (Brown), Wei Li (Darden), Karl Lins (Utah), Marc Lipson (Darden), Christian Lundblad (North Carolina), Peter Maillet (UVA McIntire), Jonathan Morduch (NYU), Eli Remolona (BIS), Peter Rodriguez (Darden), Michael Schill (Darden), Sergio Schmukler (World Bank), David Smith (UVA McIntire), Rodney Sullivan (CFA Institute), Bill Wilhelm (UVA McIntire).
Keynote speaker: Simon Johnson (MIT)
Conference Purpose: This 9th annual Darden International Finance Conference seeks to address international issues concerning access to capital. In all types of economies, households and firms are at times constrained in their ability to attract outside capital. The conference will explore country- and borrower-specific traits that determine this ability, as well as the impact of access to capital on firm performance and household welfare. As in past years, we aim to bring together a mix of academics and practitioners.
We will entertain a wide range of topics for this conference, but will seek clusters of work that complement one another. Possible sessions could include, but are not limited to, the following:
¨ Design of banking systems, capital markets, securities exchanges, and financial regulatory frameworks
¨ Metrics for measuring access to capital and its impact on firm performance or household welfare
¨ The menu of available financial instruments and its impact on firms and households
¨ Capital market liberalization and financial development
¨ The roles of government and NGOs in access to capital
¨ The consequences of foreign involvement in financial systems (through Sovereign Wealth Funds, cross-listings, capital flows, or foreign ownership of banks)
¨ Risks and the internationalization of finance (crises, contagion, and flight to quality; currency mismatches; international funding of lending to SMEs)
¨ The consequences of limited access to capital during financial crises
¨ Financial sector development and the business cycle
Submission and selection process: The conference will consider only completed papers. The conference website, http://www.darden.virginia.edu/EM<http://www.darden.virginia.edu/EM>, will be set up to accept electronic paper submissions, through the "Online Paper Submission" link. Please fill the submission form online, paste the abstract of your paper in the appropriate text box, and upload your paper in PDF format. The program committee will review these materials and assemble sessions addressing similar substantive issues.
Deadlines: Relevant dates for the submission process are as follows:
¨ Now through November 2, 2009: Submission of papers
¨ December 1, 2009: Notification by program committee of accepted papers
· February 12, 2010: Submission of first draft of slides or other materials for presentation
· March 5, 2010: Deadline for authors to submit final versions of slides for presentation
Prior to the conference the full text of all accepted abstracts and papers will be available on the web http://www.darden.virginia.edu/EM<http://www.darden.virginia.edu/EM>.
Expenses: The conference will grant an honorarium of US$1,000 for each paper accepted for presentation. In addition, the conference will pay for reasonable travel expenses and will provide accommodations for paper presenters and discussants (for more details on travel reimbursement contact the administrative liaison identified below). The conference is open to invited guests only.
Locations: The event will be held at the Darden School of Business, 100 Darden Boulevard, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Administrative Liaison:
Elizabeth Hupert
The Darden School of Business
P.O. Box 7186, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22906
Tel: 434-924-4835 Fax: 434-982-2833 email: huperte_at_darden.virginia.edu
Received on Tue Oct 20 2009 - 19:59:20 EDT
