INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

       FINANCIAL CRISES: CAUSES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND EFFECTS

                  23rd, 24th and 25th November 2009


      International Conference - Financial Crises: Causes,
      Characteristics, and Effects (FCCCE) is a three day
      finance, economics and accounting research conference to be
      held at Joondalup Resort on the 23rd, 24th and 25th November
      2009 (in the Grand Ballroom Room.) For further information,
      see:

                    http://www.fccce.net

      Paper submissions are invited to a Conference on Financial
      Crises to be held at the Joondalup Resort at the end of
      November 2009.                          


      TOPICS:

      Potential topics include but are not limited to:

      - Crisis topology - asset pricing bubbles, mispricing,
        contagion, counterparty risk, transparency.
      - Prediction of crises, indicators, risk measures, ratings,
        performance measures.
      - Market regulation, transparency, innovation, disclosure,
        liquidity, global regulation, governance issues.
      - Management of the crisis, monetary policy, guarantees,
        market distortions and spreads, implications for
        investment and superannuation.
      - Economic consequences, budgetary policy, targeted
        spending, fiscal implications, social implications, with
        special emphasis on the Australian and Western
        Australian economies.
      - Accounting issues, marking to market, fair values,
        accounting Implications.


      FURTHER INFORMATION:

      A special edition of the journal Accounting and Finance
      will feature selected papers from the conference. See:

           http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0810-5391

      For further information contact:

      CONTACT:         Professor D. E. Allen
                       Edith Cowan University
      Email:           MAILTO:d.allen@ecu.edu.au
      Tel:             61 8 63045471
      Fax:             61 8 63045471

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Posted 5/7/09