Call for Papers

1st JOURNAL OF BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Theme: Financial Products for Emerging Markets and Economic Performance (PDF)
17-18 May, 2012
VENUE:  GOLF VIEW HOTEL, LUSAKA: ZAMBIA

As emerging markets begin to emerge from the current global financial turmoil, there is the need for African finance professionals and academics to stick together and to begin to identify ways and means of producing relevant financial products that can help grow economies, with stability of economies at heart. This is intended to put the emerging economies in the right footing to sustain the industrialised countries business expansion. The current financial crisis in industrialised countries can be absorbed by growth in emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). There are other small emerging economies which need to be studied and find ways to reinforced the BRICS and save the world markets from collapse. Therefore, there is urgent need for researchers, with interest in emerging markets, to work together to develop a sustainable research platform that can provide support to financial products engineers and economic policy makers.

The Journal of Business, in association with several academic institutions, will be hosting the 1st Journal of Business Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. We wish to take this opportunity to invite you to submit papers for presentations at the conference.  The emphasis of the conference will be on high-quality, theoretical and/or applied research focusing on issues relevant to finance/economics research which have special relevance to small emerging markets. The conference will focus (not exclusively) on the following:

Sub-themes:

• Speculative Bubbles Studies;
• Financial Markets Liquidity;
• Small-Median Enterprises Products;
• Emerging Markets Corporate Finance Products;
• Development of Emerging Commodities Markets Products;
• Development of Emerging Bond Markets Products;
• Emerging Markets Carbon Emission Product Development;
• Monetary Policy in the Presence of Speculative attacks;
• Interest Rate Determination in Emerging Markets;
• Relationship between Finance and Economics;
• Corporate Governance and Corruption;
• Regulatory Issues in Emerging Economies;
• Poverty and Emerging Economies;
• Valuation of Companies and the Role of News.

The Journal of Business is an ISBN 9982-07-075-3 listed and accredited by the Zambian Government through the University of Zambia and the Ministry of Education.

All conference papers will be reviewed for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Business.

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CO-ORDINATION

The Conference organizing committee includes:  Dr. B. Maliti (Sub-Editor); Dr. O.Mungule (Sub-Editor)

All scientific questions, and any question related to abstract, paper submission and all other questions should be sent to:  Dr. Oswald Mungule: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it