Call for papers

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)(Video-Conf)
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
Thuli Ncube, Chief Economist, African Development Bank Group

Conference Chair

Mondher Bellalah                         Georges Pariente         Jean-Luc Prigent
University of Cergy Pontoise          ISC Paris                      University of Cergy-Pontoise    
Conference President                      FRANCE                     FRANCE                     
FRANCE

Choujaa Lahzami
lahzami@bluewin.ch
Suisse

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 on going 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

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
December 30, 2010: Deadline for paper submission.
January 10, 2010: Acceptance/Rejection.
January 30, 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).
A book will also be published with Cambridge Scholars Publishing