Call for Papers: CAPITAL MARKETS CONFERENCE

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

             Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

                     CAPITAL MARKETS CONFERENCE

                           21-23 May 2008
                      Lancaster University, UK


     The 16th JBFA Capital Markets Conference will be hosted at
     Lancaster University Management School on 21-23 May 2008.

     The conference will focus on the interrelated areas of
     accounting, capital markets and corporate finance. 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 consequences of earnings quality and
       earnings management
     - Corporate financial communication beyond financial
       statements
     - Corporate governance, ownership, and control, theory and
       evidence
     - Corporate financial decision-making (e.g. capital
       structure and investment appraisal)
     - Asset pricing: theory and evidence
     - Investment analysis, portfolio management, and portfolio
       performance evaluation


     PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

     Original papers to be considered for the conference should
     be submitted no later than 15 December 2007, 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
     2008. Subject to satisfactory revision, accepted conference
     papers will be published in a Special Issue of JBFA in
     2009. Two nights accommodation 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.


     SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

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

              http://services.bepress.com/jbfa

     A submission fee of $100 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.blackwellpublishing.com/jbfa
Posted 11/4/07