Topics: - Financial integration: implications for economic cycles, growth and trade - Capital market depth and efficiency: effects on growth and development - Availability of credit and capital market finance and firms' competitiveness - Financial deregulation and real economic activity (firm...

Academic sessions and a panel of practitioners will cover recent research, and will debate the future of the hedge fund industry. We welcome submissions on hedge funds, but also, more broadly, we welcome papers that improve the understanding of the roles and behavioural of market intermediaries...