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16^th Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)

Seoul, Korea, December 3-4, 2021  

Korean Securities Association (KSA) is pleased to announce its 16^th Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) to be held at the Westin Josun Hotel in Seoul, Korea, from December 3^rd to December 4^th, 2021. We welcome interested scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers to submit research papers in all areas of finance for presentation at the conference.  

Please note that we are closely monitoring the situation surrounding the coronavirus outbreak around the world. In case with travel restriction, we have a contingency plan that speakers can still participate at the conference online from the countries where they reside.  

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

The keynote speaker for the 16^th annual CAFM will be Itay Goldstein, the Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor and a Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Goldstein is an expert in the areas of corporate finance, financial institutions, and financial markets, focusing on financial fragility and crises and on the feedback effects between firms and financial markets. His research has been published in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Goldstein is the Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies since 2018. Before that, he served there as an editor for five years. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was the co-founder and the first president of the Finance Theory Group and served as a director of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He is a frequent speaker in academic and policy forums around the world, and acted as keynote speaker in leading academic conferences.  

PAPER SUBMISSION  

Papers written in English must be submitted via https://www.conftool.net/cafm2021, using MS Word or Adobe pdf file format from May 6^th, 2021. The deadline for paper submission is August 22^nd, 2021. The submitted papers will be reviewed for selection by the review committee in a double-blind referee process. The results will be notified to the author via email by September 30^th, 2021. If you have any questions with the paper submission, please let us know via email at cafm2021@gmail.com.

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 email address. The second page should contain the paper’s title and abstract only. The programs for the previous CAFM conferences can be accessed at the website, http://www.apjfs.org.    

GUEST LECTURES
Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen and INSEAD) will lead a special lecture session on “Family Firms in Emerging Markets” based on his survey paper

DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP AND BEST DISSERTATION AWARD

Doctoral students are also welcomed to present their dissertations at the doctoral student workshop of the conference, which will be led by Lilian Ng (York University and the co-editor of AJFS), Xuan Tian (Tsinghua University and the co-editor of AJFS). The Best Dissertation Award of US$ 1,000 (or KRW 1,000,000) will be given to the best thesis.