Asia–Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (AJFS) invites manuscripts for a special issue on emerging capital markets and related issues, scheduled for publication in 2011. AJFS became the first finance journal published in Asia covered by the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in 2006. AJFS has been published since 1980 by the Korean Securities Association (KSA), the oldest and largest academic organization of finance scholars and practitioners in Korea.
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Topics for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, theoretical, experimental, and empirical research in the following areas:
· Integration of capital markets
· Dynamics of emerging market equity flows
· Measuring financial contagion
· Liquidity and asset pricing in emerging markets
· Behavioral finance in emerging markets
· Corporate governance and investor protection in emerging markets
· Corporate diversification benefits/costs in emerging markets
· Cross-listings
· Currency risk premiums in emerging equity markets
· Regulatory reforms in emerging markets
AWARDS:
Up to eight papers will be selected for the Special Issue and US$ 1,000 (or 1,000,000 KRW) award will be granted to each selected paper.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
All manuscripts must be in English and include an abstract of fewer than 500 words. The cover page should contain the paper’s title, the author’s name, affiliation, address, and e–mail address. The second page should contain only the paper’s title and abstract. All manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format to rheesg@skku.edu by August 31, 2010. No submission fee is required. We expect to complete the review process and notify the result by December 31, 2010.
