ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
MULTINATIONAL FINANCE SOCIETY

July 3 - July 8, 2004, Ceylan Inter-Continental Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstracts of 2004 MFS Conference - click here to download

2004 Conference Information

Table of Contents & Event Information

General Information	Institutional Sponsors
Manuscript Submission Information	Business Sponsors
Program Chairs	Travel Tips & Information
Program Committee Members	Other Conferences in Proximity
Local Organizing Committee	Local Views & Attractions - Istanbul, Turkey

Event Sponsors

GENERAL INFORMATION (back to top)

The conference is organized by the (1) Cass Business School-City of London, UK, (2) Hacettepe University Financial Research Center (HUFAM)-Ankara, Turkey, and (3) School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University.  The objective of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners from all over the world to focus on timely financial issues.  Papers in all areas of finance dealing with developed as well as developing countries are welcome.  An effort will be made to provide a balanced coverage of all countries. Specific topics include but are not limited to:

International Asset Market Structures, Financial Regulation, Financial  Liberalization; Microstructure of Developed and Emerging Markets for all Asset Classes; Linkages Between Stock and Foreign Exchange Markets; Foreign Exchange Market Arbitrage, Hedging, and Pricing; Volatility and Correlation in Financial Markets; Financial Engineering; Risk Management; Extremes and Value at Risk; International Portfolio Management and Pricing Models; International Regulation and Performance of Financial Institutions and Money Managers; The Role of Information in Financial Decisions; International Capital Structure Issues for Firms; Initial and Seasoned Public Offerings and Equity Restructuring; Investment Banking and Issuing of Corporate Securities; Mergers, Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring and Takeover Defenses; Corporate Ownership, Control, Governance and Compensation and Firm Performance; Cost of Bankruptcy and Financial Distress; Macro Finance, including Inflation and Monetary Policy; The Term Structure of Interest Rates; Behavioral Finance.

Please submit by November 21, 2003, three copies of a completed or nearly completed paper to Multinational Finance Society, School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University, 227 Penn Street, Camden, NJ  08102-1656, U.S.A.  (856) 225-6594 (Office), 225-6632 (Fax), or e-mail an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to mfs@camden.rutgers.edu  The title page should include the affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail of each author.  All participants agree to serve as a discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest, if needed.

MULTINATIONAL FINANCE SOCIETY (back to top)

The purpose of the Multinational Finance Society is to disseminate and promote financial knowledge, philosophies, techniques, and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries among members of the international academic and business communities.

PROGRAM CHAIRS (back to top)

Gulnur Muradoglu - Cass Business School-City of London, UK

Mustafa Gultekin - University of North Carolina

Mehmet Baha Karan - Hacettepe University Financial Research Center (HUFAM), Turkey

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (back to top)

Abhay Abyankar - University of Durham, UK

George Athanassakos - University of Western Ontario, Canada

Warren Bailey - Cornell University

Ercan Balaban - Edinburgh University, UK

Woolfgang Bessler - Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany

G. Geoffrey Booth - Michigan State University

Laurence Booth - University of Toronto, Canada

Ephraim Clark - Middlesex University Business School, UK

André Dorsman - Nyenrode University, The Netherlands

Robert Faff - RMIT University, Australia

Ian Garrett - University of Manchester, UK

Costas Grammenos - Cass Business School, UK

Paul Halpern - University of Toronto, Canada

Nathan Joseph - Ashton Business School, UK

Manolis Kavussanos - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Turalay Kenc - Imperial College, UK

Johan Knif - HANKEN, Finland

Lawrence Kryzanowski - Concordia University, Canada

Ali Kutan - Southern Illinois University

Meziane Lasfer - Cass Business School, UK

Richard Michelfelder - Rutgers University

Christos Negakis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Yair Orgler - Tel Aviv University, Israel

Edgar Ortiz - UNAM, Mexico

George Papaioannou - Hofstra University

Francesco Paris - University of Brescia, Italy

Kate Phylaktis - Cass Business School, UK

Nejat Seyhun - University of Michigan

Nick Travlos - ALBA, Greece, and Cardiff Business School, UK

Wim Westerman - University of Groningen, The Netherlands

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (back to top)

Mine Aksu - Sabanci University, Turkey

Kursat Aydogan - Bilkent University, Turkey

Murat Binay - Koc University, Turkey

Gokhan Capoglu - Atilim University, Turkey

Umit Erol - Bahcesehir University, Turkey

Bengi Ertuna - Bogazici University, Turkey

Halit Gonenc - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Zeynep Onder - Bilkent University, Turkey

Hakan Orbay - Sabanci University, Turkey

Guven Sak - Central Bank of Turkey, Turkey

Aslihan Altay Salif - Bilkent University, Turkey

Armagan Tarim - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Suat Teker - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Aydin Ulucan - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Atakan Yalcin - Koc University, Turkey

Bilgehan Yazici - ABN AMRO, Turkey

Reha Yolalan - Yapi Kredi Bank, Turkey

BUSINESS SPONSORS (back to top)

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