CALL FOR PAPERS


             JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING


                      CAPITAL MARKETS CONFERENCE


                           May 26-28, 2010
                    University of North Carolina
                          Chapel Hill, USA



     The JBFA Capital Markets Conference 2010 will be held at
     the University of North Carolina.


     The conference will focus on capital markets research in
     the interrelated areas of corporate accounting, finance and
     governance. In addition to conventional original research
     contributions, the editors also wish to encourage the
     submission of papers that focus on evaluating research
     methods in these areas and contribute to the development of
     new modeling techniques.



     TOPICS:


     Original research contributions could address a wide
     variety of research questions including, but not restricted
     to, the following areas:


     - Economic theories of accounting and accounting-based
       valuation models
     - Determinants and capital market consequences of earnings
       quality and earnings management
     - Corporate financial communication beyond financial
       statements
     - Corporate governance, ownership and control, and
       management incentives theory and evidence
     - Corporate financial decision-making (e.g. capital
       structure, dividend policy and investment appraisal)
     - Asset pricing: Theory and evidence
     - Investment analysis, earnings forecasts, and valuation
       practices
     - Portfolio management,and portfolio performance
       evaluation



     PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:


     Original papers to be considered for the conference should
     be submitted strictly no later than Friday 11th December
     2009, and preferably earlier. Submissions to the conference
     will be treated as submissions to the Journal of Business
     Finance and Accounting, and should not be under review with
     any other journal. All papers will be refereed and
     decisions on accepted papers will be notified to authors in
     mid-March 2010. Subject to satisfactory revision, accepted
     conference papers will be published in a Special Issue of
     JBFA in 2011. Accommodation for the Wednesday and Thursday
     nights will be provided by JBFA for one author of each
     selected paper (with the possibility of more than one co-
     author being invited subject to room availability).
     Conference participants will be responsible for making
     their own travel arrangements.


     Competition for places at the conference is normally high.
     In the interest of a balanced conference program, some
     papers may be accepted, subject to revision, for later
     publication in JBFA, but not for presentation at the
     conference.


     Manuscripts should be submitted via the JBFA electronic
     editorial office at:


          http://services.bepress.com/jbfa


     A submission fee of $165 is required, payable by credit
     card. Please indicate that the paper is a conference
     submission by selecting the appropriate option during the
     submission process. For general information concerning
     JBFA, including the Editorial Board, please visit:


          http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0306-686X


     The editors are grateful to KPMG for their continued
     sponsorship of this event.




Posted 10/2/09