24th Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society 2017 | Multinational Finance Society | 25 June 2017 | INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL BUCHAREST, Blvd. Nikolae Balcescu 4, Bucharest, Romania

The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis. AREAS OF INTEREST Papers in all areas of finance, accounting and economics dealing with developed and developing countries are welcome. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: Asset Pricing; Banking; Behavioral Finance; Buyouts; Capital Structure; CDS; Commodities; Contagion in Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Corporate Restructuring; Cost of Bankruptcy; Credit Scoring Models; Cross Listing; Derivatives; Emerging Markets; Executive Compensation; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysts; Financial Reporting; FX Arbitrage; Investment Banking; IPOs; M&As; Macro Finance; Market Efficiency; Market Microstructure; Payout Policy; Portfolio Management; Real Options; Regulation; Risk Measurement; Shipping Finance; Specialities in Nordic Financial Markets; Term Structure of Interest Rates; Trading Behavior; Valuation; and Volatility.

Steven Ongena - University of Zurich & Swiss Finance Institute, Switzerland PROGRAM CHAIRS

Radu Lupu - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Panayiotis Theodossiou - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania