Call for Papers
Second ITAM Finance Conference

http://www.itamfin.com

June 7-8, 2013, Mexico City, Mexico

PROGRAM COMMITTEE attending the conference: Tarun Chordia (Emory), Kris Jacobs (Houston), and Fernando Zapatero (USC).

OVERVIEW: After the tremendous success of the First ITAM Finance Conference, ITAM School of Business, in partnership with Fundacion de Estudios Financieros, is delighted to host the Second ITAM Finance Conference, designed to bring leading scholars in the field. The conference will be held on Friday June 7, and Saturday morning, June 8, 2013. Papers in asset pricing, financial econometrics and derivatives are preferred, but all areas of finance are invited.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit a PDF file no later than March 19, 2013 to the email: aurelio.vasquez@itam.mx. Include names, affiliations, and email addresses for all coauthors. Please indicate whether you would be willing to discuss a paper should your paper not be included in the program. Authors of selected papers will be notified by mid-April. The submission of new work is encouraged and papers should not be scheduled for publication or presentation at a major conference prior to submission.

LAST YEAR SPEAKERS: Viktor Todorov (Northwestern), Stephen Figlewski (NYU), Terrance Odean (Berkeley), Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern), Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley), Jason Chen (UBC), Tarun Chordia (Emory), Federico Nardari (Houston), Gennaro Bernile (Miami), Francisco Perez-Gonzalez (Stanford), Jan Ericsson (McGill), Alessio Saretto (Texas-Austin) and discussants Peter Christoffersen (Toronto), Kris Jacobs (Houston), Ali Lazrak (UBC), Diego Amaya (UQAM), Alok Kumar (Miami), Santiago García Verdú (Bank of Mexico) and Fernando Zapatero (USC).

FEES, ACCOMMODATION AND ACTIVITIES: The conference organization will cover the accommodation and conference fee for paper presenters. For discussants, only the conference fee will be covered. All conference participants, including paper presenters, are expected to cover their transportation expenses. Conference participants are eligible for discounted hotel rates from Thursday June 6 to Sunday June 9, 2013 at the conference hotel, Camino Real Pedregal, within a short walking distance of the ITAM campus. The conference fee for participants is charged to cover expenses (MXN$2,400 or US$200 for academics, MXN$4,800 or US$400 for practitioners). The fee covers breakfasts and lunches as well as a dinner, reception on Friday and the trip to the National Museum of Anthropology on Saturday afternoon.

ORGANIZERS: Guillermo Zamarripa (Fundef), Pablo Galvan (ITAM), Alex Horenstein (ITAM), Aurelio Vasquez (ITAM).