CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth Annual Conference on Asia–Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)

of the Korean Securities Association (KSA)

Seoul, Korea, December 4, 2010

Korean Securities Association (KSA), the oldest and largest academic organization of finance scholars and practitioners in Korea, invites interested scholars, practitioners, and policy–makers to submit research papers for presentation at its fifth international conference. Both theoretical and empirical research papers in all areas of finance are welcome.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The keynote speaker for the fifth CAFM will be Professor E. Han Kim (University of Michigan). The programs of the previous conferences can be accessed at the following website:

http://www.apjfs.org/international/cafm.asp

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Papers written in English must be submitted via e–mail to:

Email: cafm2010@gmail.com 

by August 31, 2010, using MS Word or Adobe pdf file format. The submitted papers will be reviewed for selection by the review committee in a double–blind referee process. The results will be notified via e–mail by September 30, 2010. All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as monograph or chapter of a book.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Competitive research awards of US$2,000 (or 2,000,000KRW) will be given to each of the eight best papers. The awarded paper must be presented by one of the authors in the CAFM and will be invited to publish in the Asia–Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (AJFS), which is a SSCI–listed finance journal.

PAPER STYLE

All papers must be accompanied by an abstract of a maximum of 200 words. The cover page of the paper should contain the paper’s title, the author’s name, affiliation, address, phone number, and e–mail address. The second page should contain the paper’s title and abstract only.

CONTACT

For additional information, please contact one of us:

J.B. (Jong–Bom) Chay, Ph.D., President of the KSA (jbchay@skku.edu),

Sungkyunkwan University

Jinwoo Park, Ph.D., Chair of the Program and Review Committee (jwp@hufs.ac.kr), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies