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 5/8/09