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1st Conference on Corporate Policies and Asset Prices (COAP)
Call For Papers

Thursday and Friday, 7 and 8 December 2017, Cass Business School, London, UK

Cass Business School is pleased to announce the 1st Conference on Corporate Policies and Asset Prices (COAP). This is a first-of-its-kind conference focusing specifically on the interactions between corporate decisions and asset prices. We invite authors to submit original, theoretical and/or empirical papers covering topics within the intersection of corporate finance and asset pricing.

TOPICS: Suitable topics include (but are not limited to):
- dynamic corporate finance models and their asset pricing implications
- the feedback from asset prices to corporate decisions
- structural estimation of dynamic models utilizing price data, and
- the explanation of asset pricing anomalies with corporate finance models.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The deadline for submissions is 7 August 2017, at 10:00pm GMT (United Kingdom time). There is no submission fee. Please email a PDF version of your paper to COAP@city.ac.uk. The file name must be [Presenting author's last name]_[Shortened paper title].pdf as in "Jones_InvestmentMomentum.pdf." Please include "COAP2017" in your email's subject. We expect to notify authors by 15 September 2017.

CONFERENCE STRUCTURE: Thursday sessions are between 9:00am and 5:30pm, with a keynote speech at lunch, followed by a conference dinner for speakers and discussants. Friday sessions are between 9:00am and 12:00 noon, followed by lunch. We will provide accommodation for speakers and discussants. Submissions by PhD students expecting to go on the academic job market in 2018 are welcome.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Neng Wang (Columbia University)

GUEST SPEAKERS: Hui Chen (MIT), Adlai Fisher (UBC), Brent Glover (Carnegie Mellon), and Lukas Schmid (Duke)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 7 August 2017. Submissions should be sent to: COAP@city.ac.uk

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/site/coapconference

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Mamdouh Medhat (mamdouh.medhat@city.ac.uk) and Enrique Schroth (enrique.schroth.1@city.ac.uk)

QUESTIONS AND ENQUIRIES: Please contact Lucy Green on lucy.green.1@city.ac.uk

Posted: 14 Feb 2017