India Finance Conference IFC 2018 | Indian Finance Association | 20 December 2018 | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Diamond Harbour Rd, Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal 700104, India

The India Finance Conference 2018 (IFC 2018), the annual event of the Indian Finance Association (IFA), invites papers for its eighth edition to be held at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata from 20-22 December, 2018. The annual conference is jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). Academics, researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners are invited and encouraged to submit research papers in all areas of finance.

Conference Themes:
• Theoretical and empirical asset pricing
• Corporate finance, capital structure and dividend policy
• Asset allocation and investment management
• Financial crises, systemic risk and macro-finance
• Quality of financial reporting and adoption of IFRS
• Corporate governance, executive compensation and ownership structure
• Computational finance and financial econometrics
• Financial risk analytics and management
• Market microstructure and algorithmic trading
• Financial policy choice, institutions and regulation
• Financial literacy and financial education
• Financial Analytics

2018 Speakers

Dr. Apoorva Javadekar
Research Director, CAFRAL (RBI)

Prof. Samit Paul
Assistant Professor of Finance, IIM Calcutta

Utpal Bhattacharya
Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Professor Simi Kedia
Professor – Albert R. Gamper Chair, Rutgers Business School

Julian Franks
Professor of Finance, London Business School

2018 Sponsors

• Bandhan Bank
• ICICI Bank