This conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of corporate finance that include corporate aspects of the financial crisis and of financial cycles, the use of leverage, and in general capital structure and payout policy, security issuance, financial regulation, M&A, private...

We invite submission of empirical, theoretical and experimental papers on investment banking, market microstructure and asset pricing. We particularly welcome papers on: . Algorithmic trading . Competition between trading platforms . Liquidity . Post-trading . Security design and origination