Second Call for Papers
Centre for Analytical Finance, ISB, Tenth Summer Research Conference in Finance

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 July 25 - 28, 2013. The conference will begin with a reception for the participants on Thursday, July 25, evening, followed by paper presentations on July 26-28. Eduardo Schwartz, California Chair in Real Estate and Land Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and CAF Academic Fellow 2013, will deliver a keynote speech at the conference.

THEME: The theme of the conference is Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. This is our tenth summer research conference. Over time, the conference has become very competitive, with paper submissions from twenty odd countries and the acceptance rate nearing one in ten. The post-conference publication rate of the conference papers in top-tier journals is one of the highest of all competitive finance conferences.

This year's conference will be organized by Prof. Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Indian School of Business and Prof. Krishna Ramaswamy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

TOPICS: Papers in all areas of corporate finance are welcome, including corporate financing and corporate growth, corporate investment decisions, real options, corporate finance and product markets, control rights and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, institutional and legal framework, behavioral corporate finance, and corporate financing in emerging markets. We are planning a special session on corporate financing and growth in emerging markets, so papers in this area are especially welcome. 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.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Besides ISB faculty, the conference program committee is expected to include Rajesh Aggarwal, Franklin Allen, Thorsten Beck, Glenn Boyle, Bhagwan Chowdhry, Stijn Claessens, Francesca Cornelli, Sudipto Dasgupta, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Joseph Fan, Mariassunta Giannetti, Charles Hadlock, Thomas Hellmann, Ravi Jagannathan, Kose John, Han Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Kai Li, Vojislav Maksimovic, Ron Masulis, Tom Noe, Terry Odean, NR Prabhala, Manju Puri, Subrata Sarkar, Raghu Sundaram, Anjan Thakor, and Vish Viswanathan.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
- Submission deadline: March 24, 2013
- Submission procedure: visit the conference site http://events.isb.edu/FinanceConference2013, 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: April 20, 2013

FUNDING: There will be a USD 5,000 award generously funded by National Stock Exchange of India 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 all participants, we will take care of all local hospitalities.

FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions about the conference can be addressed to: FinanceConference13@isb.edu To view the program schedule and the papers presented at the 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