Preliminary Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets of the Korean Securities Association

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

         THE THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FINANCIAL
       MARKETS (CAFM) OF THE KOREAN SECURITIES ASSOCIATION (KSA)

                            December 6, 2008
                              Seoul, Korea


      Korea Securities Association (KSA), the oldest and largest
      academic organization of finance scholars and practitioners
      in Korea, invites interested scholars, practitioners, and
      policy-makers to submit research papers for presentation at
      its third international conference. Both theoretical and
      empirical research papers in all areas of finance are
      welcome.


      KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

      The keynote speaker for the third CAFM will be Professor
      Laura Starks (University of Texas at Austin), the Editor of
      the Review of Financial Studies. The programs of the
      previous conferences can be accessed at the following
      websites:

           http://www.apjfs.org/international/cafm.asp


      ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:

      Papers written in English must be submitted via e-mail to:

      Email:       MAILTO:cafm2008@gmail.com

      by August 31, 2008, using MS Word or Adobe pdf file format.
      The submitted papers will be reviewed for selection by the
      review committee in a double-blind referee process. The
      results will be notified via e-mail by September 30, 2008.
      All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not
      under submission at another journal or under consideration
      for publication in another form, such as monograph or
      chapter of a book.


      BEST PAPER AWARDS:

      Competitive research awards of US$2,500 will be given to
      each of the six best papers. The awarded paper must be
      presented by one of the authors in the CAFM and will be
      invited to publish in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial
      Studies (APJFS), which is the only SSCI-listed finance
      journal in Asia. All other presenters (one author per
      paper) from abroad will be provided grants of US$500 to
      help defray the travel costs. The sponsors of the best
      paper awards are as follows:

      - Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd.
      - Samsung Securities Co., Ltd.
      - Woori Investment & Securities Co., Ltd.
      - The Korea Development Bank
      - Hana Bank
      - Miraeasset Securities


      PAPER STYLE:

      All papers must be accompanied by an abstract of a maximum
      of 500 words. The cover page of the paper should contain
      the paper title, the author's name, affiliation, address,
      phone number, and e-mail address. The second page should
      contain the paper title and the abstract only.


      FURTHER INFORMATION:

      For additional information, please contact one of us:

      CONTACT:       Beomsik Jang, Ph.D.
                     President of the KSA
                     Soongsil University
      Email:         MAILTO:bsjang@ssu.ac.kr

      CONTACT:       Dongcheol Kim, Ph.D.
                     Program Chair
                     Korea University
      Email:         MAILTO:kimdc@korea.ac.kr

      CONTACT:       Jinwoo Park, Ph.D.
                     Chair of the Review Committee
                     Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
      Email:         MAILTO:jwp@hufs.ac.kr
Posted 5/9/08