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ICFMCF-2018: 3rd International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance 2018
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kalyanpur, Kanpur -208 016
Kanpur, India, July 12-14, 2018
Conference websitehttp://dora.iitk.ac.in/icfmcf18/
Submission OpensJanuary 19, 2018
Submission deadlineMarch 15, 2018
Notification of Review ResultsMay 15, 2018
Registration DeadlineJune 10, 2018
Topics: financial markets corporate finance

International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (ICFMCF) is an initiative taken by leading management schools within the Indian Institute of Technology system, such as

  • Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur
  • Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
  • Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
  • Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay
  • Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi
  • Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to showcase cutting-edge research in the areas 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 finance and allied areas. ICFMCF brings together researchers from academia, industry and regulatory organizations to deliberate on theoretical work, empirical findings and policy implications related to financial market microstructure and challenges in corporate finance.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Original research articles broadly within the scope of the conference topics, written in English language, are solicited.

Full Paper Submission Guidelines

  • Only full paper can be submitted.
  • Paper should contain title, author names(s) and affiliation(s), email, 150-word abstract, keywords, introduction, motivation of the study, literature survey, data and methodology and results, managerial implications.
  • Paper should be limited to 40 pages in length in double spacing.
  • Format:  double line spacing, 12-point font size, Times New Roman font type, and 1 inch top/bottom margins.
  • Tables, figures, appendices, and other supplementary material should not exceed 10 pages.
  • Authors should submit their papers online. Kindly visit our website for the submission.

List of Topics

Track 1: Financial Markets

Specialization: 1.1: Trading, Pricing, Volatility and Efficiency

  • Alternative investment funds
  • Behavioral finance
  • Corporate bond market pricing, trading and efficiency
  • Financial market efficiency, asset pricing and volatility
  • Foreign exchange market: trading, parity and efficiency
  • Government debt market delivery, efficiency and trading
  • Insurance and reinsurance-pricing, default and solvency
  • Money market efficiency, delivery and volatility
  • Mutual funds, portfolio and fund management
  • Non deliverable forwards market

Specialization: 1.2: Banking and Risk Management

  • Basel and bank management
  • Liquidity and asset-liability management
  • MCLR, BPLR, base rate and pricing of loans
  • Modeling credit risk, market risk and operational risk
  • Quantification, pricing and management of risk
  • Risk-based pricing
  • Techniques and principles of model validation
  • Treasury management

Specialization: 1.3: Financial Inclusion and Payment System

  • Developing financial triangle-linking people’s organizations, NGOs and banks
  • Digital Finance
  • Financial inclusion measurement framework
  • Financing for micro-enterprises
  • Fraud regulation in payment system
  • Integrated payment system architecture
  • Payment banks-strategy for business expansion
  • Retail payment system
  • Risk management in payment system
  • Sustainability of SHGs
  • Unstructured and structured payment system

Specialization: 1.4: Derivatives: Trading, Pricing and Risk Management

  • Commodity derivatives trading, volatility and pricing
  • Credit derivatives and credit default swaps
  • Currency futures
  • Delivery and settlement system
  • Equity options valuation and pricing
  • Exchange traded funds
  • Implied volatility and volatility trading
  • Interest rate futures

Specialization: 1.5: High Frequency Finance

  • Assessment of trading execution cost
  • Bid-ask spreads and cost segregation
  • Big data framework for asset pricing
  • Big data modeling
  • Information asymmetry and adverse selection models
  • Limit order book dynamics
  • Market microstructure and stock exchange governance
  • Portfolio analytics

Track 2: Corporate Finance

Specialization: 2.1: Corporate Funding and Capital Structure

  • Angel investments
  • Capital structure and liquidity
  • Crowd funding
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Investment uncertainty, market timing and capital structure
  • Managerial behavior, agency costs and capital structure
  • Private financing
  • Profit planning and capital structure
  • Start-Up funding and valuation
  • Venture funding

Specialization: 2.2: Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Audit practices in corporate governance
  • Business ethics in corporate governance
  • Corporate governance and CSR
  • Corporate governance and ownership
  • Corporate profitability and governance
  • Cross border mergers and acquisitions
  • Gender diversity and governance

Specialization: 2.3: Corporate Dividends

  • Determinants of corporate dividend policy
  • Industry classification and dividend policy
  • Information content of dividend changes
  • Liquidity, profitability and leverage reaction to dividend change
  • Market reaction to substantial shifts in dividend policy
  • Ownership structure and dividend payouts

Specialization: 2.4: SMEs Competition, Cluster Development and Financing

  • Competitiveness and productivity of SMEs
  • Determinants SMEs clustering
  • Financing, regulation and governance of SMEs
  • Globalization and SMEs competition
  • SMEs financing, subsidies and market protection

Specialization: 2.5: Corporate Cash Management

  • Adverse selection effects of corporate cash holdings
  • Business groups and cash holdings
  • Corporate governance and cash holdings
  • Determinants of corporate cash holding
  • Family control and cash holdings
  • Optimum cash holding and inventory efficiency
  • Working capital efficiency and cash holdings

Committees

Advisory Committee

  • Prof. B. V. Phani, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Prof. Chinmoy Ghosh, University of Connecticut
  • Prof. M. Thenmozhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Prof. Shantanu Dutta, University of Ottawa

Core Committee

 

  • Prof. Anil K Sharma, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee
  • Prof. B.V.Phani, Department of Industrial and  Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur
  • Prof. Devlina Chatterjee, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur
  • Prof. G. Arun Kumar, 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, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management Studies, IIT Bombay
  • Prof. Wasim Ahmad, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Prof. Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Organizing committee

  • Prof. B. V. Phani
  • Prof. Devlina Chatterjee 
  • Prof. Wasim Ahmad
  • Prof. Shankar Prawesh 
  • Prof. Anoop Singh 
  • Prof. Praveen Kulshreshtha  

Scientific Committee

  • Prof. Abhijeet Chandra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Ajay K. Garg, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  • Prof. Alok Dixit, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  • Prof. Aparna Gupta, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management Indore
  • Prof. Arun Kumar Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Arunima Haldar, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
  • Prof. B. V. Phani, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Prof. Bipin Dixit, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
  • Prof. Chandra Sekhar Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Chinmoy Ghosh, University of Connecticut
  • Prof. Devlina Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Prof. Gourishankar S. Hiremath, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Hariprasad B., Indian Institute of Management Indore
  • Prof. Inder Sekhar Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Jacob Joshy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
  • Prof. Jitendra Mahakud, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. K. G. Karmakar, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
  • Prof. K. R. Shanmugam, Madras School of Economics
  • Prof. Kunal, Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
  • Prof. M. Kannadhasan, Indian Institute of Management Raipur
  • Prof. M. Thenmozhi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Prof. Madhumathi R., Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Prof. Manoj Kumar Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Mehul Raithatha, Indian Institute of Management Indore
  • Prof. Mohd. Norfian Alifiah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
  • Prof. Monica Singhania, University of Delhi
  • Prof. Murugappa (Murgie) Krishnan, Rutgers University of USA
  • Prof. N. M. Leepsa, National Institute of Technology Rourkela
  • Prof. Narayan Chandra Nayak, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Neelam Rani, Indian Institute of Management Shilong
  • Prof. P Krishna Prasanna, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Prof. Pankaj Kumar Baag, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
  • Prof. Parama Barai, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Pitabas Mohanty, Xavier School of Management
  • Prof. Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Puja Padhi, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai
  • Prof. Pulak Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia, Institute of Rural Management Anand
  • Prof. Rudra P. Pradhan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba
  • Prof. S. C. Bansal, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  • Prof. S. V. D. Nageswara Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai
  • Prof. Sankarshan Basu, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  • Prof. Seshadev Sahoo, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  • Prof. Shantanu Dutta, University of Ottawa
  • Prof. Shveta Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • Prof. Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
  • Prof. Soumya G. Deb, Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar
  • Prof. Sudipta Das, IIIT Allahabad
  • Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  • Prof. Uday Damodaran, Xavier School of Management
  • Prof. Umakant Dash, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Prof. Varadraj Bapat, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai
  • Prof. Vinay Goel, Indian Institute of Management Raipur
  • Prof. Vinodh Madhavan, Institute for Financial Management and Research Sri City
  • Prof. Wasim Ahmad, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Invited Speakers

  • Speaker 1
  • Speaker 2
  • Speaker 3

Publication

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Venue

The conference will be held in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kalyanpur, Kanpur -208 016

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to icfmcf@iitk.ac.in

Sponsors

SBERTC, IIT Kanpur

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