IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Full Papers

28th February 2017 Announcement of Acceptance of Paper

31st March 2017 Registration Deadline

15th May 2017

Broad Themes

Financial Markets

Financial Markets & Institutions Banking, Insurance & Other Financial Services Market Microstructure Behavioral Finance Derivatives & Risk Management Financial Analytics Financial Inclusion & Development Finance

Corporate Finance

Corporate Ownership & Governance Capital Structure Decisions Corporate Accounting & Reporting Investment Decisions Corporate Strategies Mergers & Acquisitions Financial Regulations

CONFERENCE CONVENER Dr.(Mrs) Prabina Rajib

Professor,

Vinod Gupta School of Management

IIT Kharagpur

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CONFERENCE CO-CONVENER Dr. Arun Kumar Misra

Associate Professor,

Vinod Gupta School of Management

IIT Kharagpur

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Three outstanding papers presented at the conference shall be given best paper awards.

Call for Papers

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE FINANCE (ICFMCF-2017)

7th - 8th July 2017

Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur is pleased to announce the

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE FINANCE (ICFMCF 2017)

during 7th -8th July 2017. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to showcase the cutting

edge research in the area of financial markets and corporate finance. The conference provides an

excellent avenue to get quality feedback on the research work and an opportunity for networking

among researchers, academicians and industry executives working in the area of finance and allied

areas. We invite high quality original theoretical / applied empirical papers from faculty members,

research scholars and industry practitioners.

Call for papers include topics listed below, but is not limited to:

Financial Markets : Financial Institutions, Banking Operations & Banking Risk Management, Payment

and Settlement Systems, Treasury Management, Asset Pricing, Market Volatility, Fund

Management, Term Money Market, Bond Market, Government Debt Market, Foreign Exchange

Market, Non Deliverable Forwards Market, Commodity Market, Interest Rate Futures, Currency

Futures, Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance, Mutual Fund, Alternative Investment Funds, Exchange

Traded Funds, Forecasting, Insurance, Financial Modelling, Big Data Modelling, High Frequency

Financial Data Modelling, Nonlinear Modelling, Financial Crisis, Emerging Markets.

Corporate Finance : Cash Management, Capital Structure, Private Financing, Financial Risk

Management, Corporate Bond Market, Venture Funding, Crowd Funding, Angel Investments, Start-

Up Funding and Valuation, Valuing E-Commerce Firms, Corporate Governance and CSR, Corporate

Governance and Ownership, Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Inclusion and

Development, Development Finance, SME Financing.

Submissions covering studies in the context of India and Emerging Markets are greatly encouraged.

Contributions on other relevant topics focusing on contemporary issues are also welcomed.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers: 28th February 2017 Announcement of Acceptance of Papers: 31st March 2017 Registration Deadline: 15th May 2017

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Three outstanding papers presented at the conference shall be given best paper awards.

CONFERENCE FEES

All participants must register and pay the non-refundable, non-transferable registration fee. Conference Fee includes Conference kit, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner arrangements during 7th -8th July 2017. Domestic participants (Poster/Paper presenters) : INR 3500 International participants (Poster/Paper presenters): USD 350 Industry participants : INR 5000 Full time non-faculty research scholars without paper presentation): INR 3000

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION: Kharagpur is an important railway junction in South Eastern Railways and it is well connected to almost all parts of the country (Kharagpur, 116 Km. west of Kolkata). Participants shall be responsible for their own travel. Accommodation has been arranged at New Technology Guest House and Visveswaraya Guest House of IIT Kharagpur. Participants have to bear the accommodation expenses during their stay at IIT Kharagpur.

Visveswaraya Guest House (Limited rooms for students) D/B A.C. Room Single Occupancy (INR 400 per day) D/B A.C. Room Double Occupancy (INR 600 per day)

New Technology Guest House: D/B A.C. Room Single Occupancy (INR 1000 per day) D/B A.C. Room Double Occupancy (INR1500 per day)

ACADEMIC PARTNERS

The conference is being hosted by the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur. Other academic partners are Department of Management Studies of IIT Delhi, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering of IIT Kanpur, Department of Management Studies of IIT Madras, Department of Management studies of IIT Roorkee and Sailesh J Mehta School of Management of IIT Bombay.

CORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS (ACADEMIC PARTNERS) • Prof. Anil K Sharma, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee • Prof. B.V.Phani, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur • Prof. Devlina Chatterjee, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur • Prof. G. Arun, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras • Prof. J.P Singh, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee • Prof. M.Thenmozhi, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras • Prof. Shveta Singh, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi • Prof. Surendra S Yadav, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi • Prof. Varadraj Bapat, Sailesh J Mehta School of Management Studies, IIT Bombay. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS (VGSoM)

• Prof. Abhijeet Chadra • Prof. Arun K. Misra • Prof. Chandra Shekhar Mishra • Prof. Parama Barai • Prof. Prabina Rajib • Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya