Conference aim and scope:

The main aim of the conference is to share knowledge and expertise in the wide areas of finance and accounting both by academics and practitioners from emerging and developed economies. Main topics include, but are not limited to:

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Markets and Asset Pricing
• Financial Institutions
• Empirical Finance
• Taxation
• Financial Risk Management
• Behavioral Finance
• International Finance
• Financial Econometrics
• Internal Audit and Corporate Governance
• Financial Reporting and Accounting Standards (IFRS and IAS)
• Managerial Accounting
• Measuring Financial Performance
• Accounting Information Systems
• Contemporary Issues in Accounting and Finance in Emerging and Eastern European Markets
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

 
In addition, we would like to have a special theme on the lessons learnt during the aftermath of the global financial crisis where papers are welcomed (but not restricted to) the following areas:
 

• Market efficiency during the crisis period
• Innovations in derivative products to manage risk
• Implications of the crisis on credit, market and operational risk and associated linkages
• Spill over characteristics between debt, equity and commodities markets
• Regulatory implications of the crisis
• Quantification of financial flexibility of firms and the implications during the crisis
• Liquidity risk and its associated spill over characteristics
• Bankruptcy prediction during crisis
• Risk management and associated implications on corporate governance
• Financial Crisis and the Eastern European Markets