FOCUS: Alternative Asset Management, Pensions, Insurance, Stochastic Volatility, Interest Rate Term Structure, Credit Risk, Risk Measurement, FX Derivatives, Commodity and Emissions Trading and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

The main focus will be on empirical/econometric studies in finance. Topics include (but are not limited to): Asset Pricing; Behavioral Finance; Derivative Markets; Financial Econometrics; Financial Markets; International Finance; Market Microstructure; Risk Management; Volatility Models.

Topics: - Unique features of EM asset pricing - Liquidity and liquidity risk in EMs - Risk measurement and risk management - New thinking in market design - How EM corporations finance themselves - Corporate governance in EMs - Political economy of finance - Consequences of infirmities of...

This conference provides international academics and industry with the opportunity to meet and share their research and interest in finance related fields.

All researchers in finance are invited to present in English their latest research in all areas of finance and insurance: Asset Pricing, Banking/Financial Intermediation, Bankruptcy, Behavioral Finance, Capital Structure, Corporate Governance, Derivatives, Ethical Finance, Entrepreneurial...

Papers in all areas of finance are invited.

Papers in all areas of finance are welcome.

The theme of ICIS 2014 is Building a Better World through Information Systems. Tracks: 1) Building a Better World Through IS (Conference Theme Track); 2) Societal Impacts of IS; 3) Breakthrough Ideas in IS; 4) Decision Analytics, Big Data, and Visualisation; 5) E-Business; 6) Economics and Value...

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General theme: Relevance and Rigour in Leadership Research and Practice. We intend for this theme to generate a broad range of presentations, discussions and exchanges related to the study and practice of leadership and leadership development.