Call for papers

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Financial Crisis - Monetary and Financial Economics - Governance issues - Risk

Management - Entrepreneurial finance - Basle II - Information Technologies and e-finance - Mediterranean integration and strategies - Emerging market issues - Financial and Econometric modeling - Islamic Banking and Finance.

  Keynote Speakers

     Edward Prescott, Nobel Prize Laureate (2004)

     Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize Laureate (1997) 

     Giovanni Barone-Adesi, University of Lugano, Suisse 

 

  Honorary Committee

      

     Gordon Alexander, University of Minnesota, USA

 

     Mickaël Adler, University of Columbia, USA

 

     Georges Constantinides, University of Chicago, USA

 

     Georges Gallais Hammono, AFFI President, France 

 

 

  Conference Chair 

 

 

     M. Bellalah                                        G.Pariente                   Jean-Luc Prigent

 

     University of Cergy-Pontoise          ISC Paris                     University of Cergy-Pontoise    

 

     Conference President                      FRANCE                     FRANCE                     

 

     FRANCE 

 

 

  Conference Scope 

 

The globalization of financial markets, the recent impact of financial crisis, the creation of new monetary zones and the development of international trade impose new methods in Governance, investment and financing decisions, risk management and Bale II, corporate governance, and value creation. Therefore, it is important to develop new tools to evaluate the changes in risk management at the national and international levels and to review the features of investment, financing decisions, value creation and corporate governance in international economies and in particular in emerging countries. It is also fundamental to implement and use modeling and forecasting techniques for risk management, definition and assessment of investment and financing decisions. 

 

Other economic issues could help these decisions, such as Foreign Direct Investments, multilateral strategies, firms’ integration within the Mediterranean region. This international conference offers the opportunity to academics and professionals to discuss some issues in international investment and financing decisions. At the macroeconomic level, the ongoing economic opening and the new evolutions of prices on the international markets impose new challenges to central banks and governments. 

 

Islamic finance and banking is also embedded as one of the key issues. In fact, the rise of Shari’ah-based financial instruments is considered as a challenge to the practitioners of the conventional financial and banking industries, as well as to the researchers in financial economics who confront a huge set of theoretical premises inferred from the staples of Shari’ah (Qur’an and Sunnah). 

 

A separate PhD Workshop is headed and managed by AFFI. The first page must mention AFFIWorkshop. The objective is to help students to write scientific from the chapters in their PHD. 

 

 

  Scientific Committee 

 

H. Markowitz                 M. Adler                           E. Briys             B. Jacquillat       F. Quittard-Pinon

 

G. Barone-Adesi          P. Léoni                           F. Teulon          R. Gillet               M. Rocha Armada

   

M. Chesney                  C. Lahzami                      A. Bouri            G. Szego             P. Leoni

 

E. Abaoub                     G. Gallais-Hammono    P. Navatte        R. Aernoudt        O. Levyne

 

G. Constantinides        P. Fontaine                     P. Poncet          M. Kouki             N. Touzi

  

S. Ben Aissa                 D. Paxson                       R. Portait           S. Mouley           L. Trigeorgis  

 

Y. Simon                        H. Geman                       R. Webb            L. Belkacem       H. Bouokkez

 

 Author guidelines, submission deadline, reviewing process and best three papers awards 

 

 

Authors are invited to submit papers in word or pdf files by e-mail to: mondher.bellalah@u-cergy.fr and ifc6.tunisia@gmail.com

 

Or send a hard copy to ; by mail to Prigent-Bellalah Université de Cergy, 33 Bd. du port, F 95 011 Cergy, France, Fax : (33 1) 34 25 62 33 

 

All submitted articles will be double blind reviewed. The best three papers will be awarded at the conference. The conference chair and the scientific committee will decide the best three papers presented during the conference. The Laureates of the first three places will receive their awards from the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology and Professor Edward Prescott, the 2004 Nobel Prize Laureate. 

 

The maximum number of papers accepted by each author (either leading author or co-author) is two. 

 

Important Dates

 

November 01, 2010: Deadline for paper submission.

 

November 30, 2010: Acceptance/Rejection.

 

December 15, 2010: Definitive camera-ready version and registration of authors. 

 

 Publications Opportunities 

 

A selection of the best articles will be published in special issues in the following journals:

 

International Journal of Business

Review of Accounting & Finance

Decisions in Economics and Finance

Insurance Markets and Companies: Analyses and Actuarial Computations

Euro-Mediterranean Economics and Finance Review

A book will also be published with World Scientific Publishing (USA).