Call For Papers
The Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-Leaf) at the George Washington University Law School Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop and Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes

June 4-6, 2014, University of Queensland Business School Downtown Campus, Brisbane, Australia

Having previously only been held at venues in Europe, the UK and the USA, the editors of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting are delighted to announce that the 2014 JBFA Capital Markets Conference will be hosted by The University of Queensland Business School in Brisbane, Australia. The editors are grateful to the KPMG Foundation, the University of Queensland Business School, and Wiley-Blackwell for their sponsorship of this event.

TOPICS: We welcome submissions of papers in any of the areas covered by the aims and scope of JBFA, including capital markets research in accounting; the causes and consequences of corporate disclosure; corporate finance; and corporate governance. Papers will be especially welcome if they adopt novel empirical methods - for example computational linguistic analysis of narrative disclosures, social network analysis in relation to corporate finance and governance; and novel datasets - for example, data capturing the determinants of the organizational structure choices of large corporations.

Original papers to be considered for the conference should be submitted strictly no later than 3rd January 2014. Submissions to the conference will be treated as submissions to JBFA, and should not be under review with any other journal. All papers will be refereed and decisions on accepted papers will be conveyed to authors by early April 2014. Subject to satisfactory revision, accepted conference papers will be published in a Special Issue of JBFA of the journal in 2015.

Hotel accommodation for the Wednesday (Early bird) and Thursday nights of the Conference will be provided for one author of each selected paper. Conference participants will generally be responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Nonetheless, the editors will consider sympathetically applications for travel support from authors based upon need.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION: Manuscripts should be submitted via the JBFA electronic editing system which can be accessed through the web page listed below. A submission fee of $200 is required, but this is waived for Editorial Board members. Please indicate that the paper is a conference submission by selecting the appropriate option during the submission process.

For general information concerning JBFA, please visit: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0306-686X