Call for Papers: SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2008 IN FINANCE

                       FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

                 CENTRE FOR ANALYTICAL FINANCE, ISB,

             SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2008 IN FINANCE

                         August 7 - 9, 2008
                          Hyderabad, India


     The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian
     School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, will hold its
     annual flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance
     during August 7 - 9, 2008. The conference will begin with a
     reception for the participants on Thursday, August 7,
     evening, followed by paper presentations on August 8 and 9.
     Professor Michael Brennan, CAF Academic Fellow 2008, will
     deliver a keynote address at the conference.

     The theme of the conference is Recent Advances in Corporate
     Finance. Apart from ISB faculty, the conference program
     committee includes Viral Acharya, Franklin Allen, Arnaud
     Boot, Glenn Boyle, Bhagwan Chowdhry, Stijn Claessens,
     Francesca Cornelli, Sudipto Dasgupta, Asli Demirguc-Kunt,
     Joseph Fan, Charles Hadlock, Thomas Hellmann, Kose John,
     Han Kim, Kai Li, Vojislav Maksimovic, Tom Noe, Terry Odean,
     NR Prabhala, Manju Puri, Subrata Sarkar, and Anjan Thakor.


     TOPICS:

     Papers in all areas of corporate finance are welcome,
     including corporate financing and agency costs, corporate
     investment decisions, real options, corporate finance and
     product markets, control rights and corporate governance,
     mergers and acquisitions, institutional and legal
     framework, 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 conference program
     committee will anonymously evaluate and rank the submitted
     papers. For each session, the selected papers will be
     matched by topic.


     SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

     Submission deadline:  March 31, 2008

     Submission procedure:  Visit the conference site

        http://www.isb.edu/financeconference2008/

     go to Paper Submission page, and upload paper.

     Submission format:  First (cover) page with names and
     affiliations of all authors, second page with abstract,
     followed by full text of paper. PDF or MS-Word version
     only.

     Communication of decision:  First week of May, 2008


     FUNDING:

     There will be USD 5,000 award generously funded by
     Citigroup for the best paper presented at the conference.
     Additionally, if a paper is accepted in the program, we
     will provide limited travel support for the presenter to
     attend the conference. We hope that the other participants
     will be able to pay for their transportation to and from
     Hyderabad from their own research and travel budget. For
     participants at a U.S. school with CIBER, there may be
     CIBER funds available for travel.


     FURTHER INFORMATION:

     Questions about the conference can be addressed to:

     Email:       MAILTO:FinanceConference2008@isb.edu

     CAF organizes two research conferences each year: one in
     the spring (jointly with Wharton Financial Institutions
     Center and Swedish Institute for Financial Research) and
     the other in the summer. While the first conference rotates
     between Hyderabad, Philadelphia, and Stockholm, the summer
     conference is held on the ISB campus in Hyderabad. Well-
     known finance scholars from around the world have
     participated in our research conferences. To view the
     program schedule and the papers presented at our previous
     conferences, please visit the CAF website at:

                  http://www.isb.edu/CAF

     For more information about the city of Hyderabad, please
     visit:

                  http://www.hyderabad.co.uk/
Posted 3/2/08