Call For Papers

Sponsored by

Chazen Institute of International Business, Columbia University

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University

Emerging Markets Institute, Cornell University

Academy of Finance and Development, Peking University

Review of Financial Studies

May 1 & 2, 2015

New York, U.S.A.

This symposium is intended to provide a platform for researchers to discuss fundamental research and policy issues related to emerging financial markets. Emerging economies, including China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and others, have experienced rapid economic growth over the past several decades and they now constitute half of the world’s GDP. Capital markets in those countries have been developed more slowly and insufficiently to fund the expanding growth opportunities. Further, uneven quality domestic institutions impede external capital from satisfying that unmet demand for capital. With these challenges, there has been a growing research interest in using the unique institutional settings and rich data sources in emerging economies to study a range of fundamental questions in finance.

We welcome research in all aspects of emerging financial markets. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to):

l  The unique roles of government and the legal system protecting investors in emerging economies offer new data on corporate governance, organizational form, political economy, and economic performance.

l  Capital markets in emerging economies, dominated by individual investors and frequently affected by speculative episodes, offer unique opportunities to study speculative trading, asset price bubbles, and many other issues related to behavioral finance and investor protection.

l  The rapid development of financial institutions in recent years provides opportunities to study financial development and its impact on the real economy.

l  Housing booms and near collapses offer unparalleled opportunities to study how banks, government stimulus and other sociological factors such as rising inequality and lack of savings vehicles impact the real estate sectors and asset markets.

l  The vibrant private equity industry provides a new ground for studying entrepreneurship and technology innovations in a transitional economy.

Co-Chairs of the Symposium

·Wei Jiang: Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia Business School, and Director, Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business, Columbia University

·Yu-Jane Liu: Professor of Finance, and Chair of Finance Department, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

·Wei Xiong: Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbell Adams Professor, Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University

Sponsoring RFS Editor of the Symposium

·Andrew Karolyi: Professor of Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, and Executive Editor, Review of Financial Studies

Program Committee Members

·Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania

·Jennifer Carpenter, New York University

·Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore

·Joseph Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong

·Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania

·Bing Han, University of Texas at Austin

·David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine

·Harrison Hong, Princeton University

·Kewei Hou, Ohio State University

·Tim Jenkinson, Oxford University

·Li Jin, Peking University and Oxford University

·Luc Laeven, International Monetary Fund

·Kai Li, University of British Columbia

·Karl Lins, University of Utah,

·Qiao Liu, Peking University

·Terrance Odean, University of California, Berkeley

·Lin Peng, City University of New York

·Jun Qian, Boston College

·Jay Ritter, University of Florida

·Sergio Schmukler, World Bank

·Michael Song, University of Chicago

·Frank Warnock, University of Virginia

·John Wei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

·Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia University

·Adrien Verdelhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

·Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore

·Jialin Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

·Xiaoyan Zhang, Purdue University

·Ning Zhu, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Paper Submission

Submit an electronic version of the paper in PDF format, together with a submission fee of $45, no later than January 31, 2015 through the conference web page: http://www.scfm.org.cn/en/.

Paper selection will be finalized by March 2015.

Review of Financial Studies Dual Submission Option:  Submissions to the conference can also be submitted to the Review of Financial Studies under its dual review system, with the same submission deadline of January 31, 2015. Authors must indicate on the conference submission website whether they are interested to have their paper considered under this dual review option with the RFS that works as follows:

·There is no charge for submissions under this program.

·Dual submissions will be reviewed by the conference program committee and will be made available for consideration by the RFS.

·Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at another journal or the RFS, including as a dual-submission at another journal, nor can they be considered for dual submission if previously rejected by the RFS.

·At the discretion of the symposium’s sponsoring editor of the RFS, dual submissions will be sent out for a formal referee report. If such a report is sought, then the paper's author will receive a copy of the RFS reviewer's report.

·Papers rejected at any stage of the dual review process are not considered to have been "rejected" at the RFS. This also applies to articles sent out for formal review. Thus authors are permitted to submit a future version of their paper (unchanged if they wish) to the RFS without prejudice.

·While under consideration by the conference and the RFS, a paper may not be submitted to another journal (or the RFS) until the author has been notified.

Venue

Chazen Institute of International Business, Columbia University