Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 20-21 April 2017 at Victoria
October 27 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
8TH CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
CONFERENCE: 20 & 21 April 2017 PHD SYMPOSIUM: 19 April 2017
CONFERENCE
You are invited to submit papers for presentation at the 8th Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Governance to be held on Thursday, 20th and Friday, 21st April 2017 at the Victoria Business School, Rutherford House, Bunny Street, Wellington.
The theme for the conference is Information and Capital Markets and papers on all aspects of Corporate Governance, Financial Reporting, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Investments and Funds Management, Emerging Markets, and related areas are welcome. The deadline for submissions is 28 November 2016.
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
| Professor Katherine Schipper
Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting Fuqua School of Business Duke University
Professor of Accounting UQ Business School University of Queensland | Professor Richard Roll
Linde Institute Professor of Finance, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Caltech
Commonwealth Bank Chair in Finance School of Banking and Finance University of New South Wales |
SPECIAL CONFERENCE ISSUE PACIFIC BASIN FINANCE JOURNAL
Pacific Basin Finance Journal will run a special conference issue of the journal and all presenters at the conference are invited to consider submitting their papers to the special issue. Pacific Basin Finance Journal, published by Elsevier, provides a specialised forum for the publication of academic research on capital markets.
AWARDS
Accounting Research Journal is offering an award of AUD1,000 for the best paper presented at the conference or symposium by an emerging scholar.
Securities Research Centre of Asia-Pacific (SIRCA) is offering an award of AUD1,000 for the best paper presented at the conference employing SIRCA data products.
PHD SYMPOSIUM
The conference will be preceded by a PhD symposium on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. The symposium will provide PhD students with the opportunity to present their proposal or a working paper and receive expert feedback on their academic work. Students may submit working papers in the same subject areas as covered by the conference.
HOSTS
The conference and PhD symposium are being hosted by Victoria University of Wellington (School of Accounting and Commercial Law, School of Economics and Finance, Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research), in conjunction with the Department of Banking and Finance, Monash Business School, Monash University, and La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University.
Further information on submission of papers and all other aspects of the conference and PhD symposium is available at: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/fmcg-2017
