Conference Sub-themes Include

• Markets, Institutions and Transaction Cost: Cover areas including, Contracts, Agency and Transaction Cost; Asymmetric Information; Capital Markets and Credit Rationing; Risk Management and Domestic and International Capital Flows

• Micro-credit : Covering Social Collateral and Inverted Banking; Credit Markets; Rural Credit Markets and the Design of Rural Credit Institutions;

• Global Financial Architecture: Covering Capital Adequacy and Financial Soundness and  Issues surrounding financial liberalisation and Globalisation; International Financial Institutions;

• Finance and Sustainable Development: Covering Sustainable Development; Issues surrounding Finance and

• Finance, Economic Growth and Development:  Covering a broad area including issues surrounding Capital Flows and Economic Growth; Financial Institutions and Economic Growth; Emerging Financial Development and Economic Growth & Development

• Law and finance.  Corporate governance, regulation; corporate finance and Corporate Social Responsibility.

• External Aid and Development: Broadly covering the impact of external aid on economic growth.

• Sovereign Debt Management: Covering issues surrounding Debt Management; External Debt and Economic Growth; Debt Contracts and Renegotiation; Debt Relieve Policies; Design of Incentives and Broader issues on Sovereign Debt Management.

• Financial Evaluation and Optimality Measures: Innovative methods of cost benefit analysis and  Risk analysis and credit ratings

• International Trade Finance

Scientific Committee: Board Members of Review of Development Finance

• Ian Garret (University of Manchester, UK)
• Helene Rey (London Business School, UK)
• Lilian Ng (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
• Frank Song (University of Hong Kong)
• Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
• Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia, USA)
• Menzie D. Chinn (University of Wisconsin, USA)
• Stijn Claessens (The IMF)
• George Constantinides (University of Chicago, USA)
• Ian Cooper (London Business School, UK)
• Franklin Edwards (Columbia, USA)
• Jack Glen (International Finance Corporation, USA)
• Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
• Robert Hodrick (Columbia, USA)
• Kose John (New York University, USA)
• Leonce  Ndikumana (African Development Bank)
• Kalu Ojah (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
• Kwaku Opong (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Kate Phylaktis (The City University, London, UK)
• Ghon Rhee (University of Hawaii, USA)
• Martin Ravallion (The World Bank, USA)
• Helmut Reisen (OECD Development Centre, France)
• Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale, USA)
• Yishay Yafeh (The Hebrew University, Israel)

• George Akerlof (Berkeley, USA)
• Vihang Errunza (McGill University, Canada)
• Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University, USA)
• Robert C. Merton (Harvard, USA)
• Myron Scholes (Stanford, USA)
• Lemma Senbet (University of Maryland, USA)
• Reena Aggarwal (Georgetown University, USA)
• Fred E.  Benth (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Timothy Besley (London School of Economics, UK)
• Gordon M. Bodnar (The John Hopkins University, USA)
• Arnoud W.A. Boot (The Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• KC Chen (California State University, USA
• Ravi Kanbur (Cornell, USA)
• Robert Korajczyk (Northwestern, USA)
• Sajal Lahiri (Southern Illinois University, USA)
• Maurice Levi (University of British Colombia, Canada)
• Ross Levine (Brown University, USA)
• Richard Lyons (Berkeley, USA)
• Roni Michaely (Cornell, USA)
• Patrick Minford (University of Wales, UK
• Frederic Mishkin (Columbia, USA)
• Michael Moore (The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK)
• Anthony Saunders (New York University, USA)
• Lucio Sarno (Cass Business School, UK)
• Robert A. Schwartz (CUNY, USA)
• Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA, USA)
• Mark Shackleton (University of Lancaster, UK)
• Jeff Sheen (Macquarie University (Australia)
• Bruno Solnik (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Ingrid Werner (Ohio State University, USA)

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