FEG-ES Call for Papers
Special Issue on the Performance of Financial Markets in Economic Systems

27-28 June, 2013, Australia

We are delighted to announce that the Financial Econometrics Group (FEG), School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, at Deakin University and Economic Systems are jointly organising a two day symposium on the Performance of Financial Markets on 27-28 June 2013.

TOPICS: We welcome submissions of papers in all areas of financial economics relating to the behaviour and performance of financial markets. Specific topics include but are not limited to: market efficiency, price discovery, investor behaviour, asset pricing, return predictability and forecasting, asset market bubbles and contagion, market volatility, credit risk, and financial and banking systems and implications for economic growth.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Interested author should send an extended abstract of 500 words by 10th February 2013, and completed (draft) papers by 30th April 2013. All abstracts/papers should be sent to blaeffeg@deakin.edu.au. All papers will be refereed and decisions on accepted papers will be conveyed to authors by early May 2013. Subject to satisfactory revisions, selected papers meeting the highest quality will be published in a Special Issue of the Economic Systems under the guest editorship of Professor Paresh Kumar Narayan.

FURTHER INFORMATION: The Conference registration fee is USD400.

Economic Systems website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-systems