"Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital Markets" issues.
Objective :
The Symposium will focus on "Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital Markets".
Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:Different Sources of Entrepreneurial Finance, Bankruptcy, Entrepreneurial Finance
in the Credit Crisis, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Law and Entrepreneurial Finance, Public Policy, Country Differences, Internationalization, Governance, Compensation, Covenants,
Financial Contracting, Exits, IPOs, Acquisitions, Performance, Disclosure, among others
Publication :
All papers accepted for the symposium are eligible to be considered for publication in the EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT in a special issue devoted to the symposium. If you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the
EFM, please indicate so in your cover letter. Papers will be reviewed for the EFM upon receipt using its normal criteria.
Note that the acceptance of a paper to the Symposium is not a guarantee of publication by the EFM.
All papers will go through the journal's standard blind review process.
Electronic Submission :
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically (MS Word or PDF format) via the EFMA website http://www.efmaefm.org where further
information about the symposium is available. The first page of the paper should contain the title; name of the author(s), address, telephone, fax numbers and E-mail addresses. Please indicate in your cover letter
whether you would be willing to serve as a session chair and/or discussant. All submitted papers must include an abstract explaining the contribution of the paper.
Deadline : The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009. Authors will be
notified by January 14, 2010.
Correspondence : Address all correspondence to:
Douglas Cumming,
Schulich School of Business, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto,Ontario M3J 1P3,Canada.
Email:dcumming@schulich.yorku.ca
Conference Organizers :Professors Douglas Cumming, Jean-Marc Suret, Mike Wright and John A. Doukas
Program Committee:
Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Queen's University
Cecile Carpentier, Laval University
Catherine Casamatta, University of Toulouse
Robert Cressy, University of Birmingham
Douglas Cumming, York University
Na Dai, SUNY Albany
Roberta Dessi, University of Toulouse
Sofia Johan, Tilburg University
April Knill, Florida State University
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Kate Litvak, Northwestern University
Alexander Ljungqvist, NYU Stern
Armin Schwienbacher, University of Amsterdam and University Catholique de Louvain
Jean-Marc Suret, Laval University
Uwe Walz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Mike Wright, University of Nottingham
Simona Zambelli, University of Bologna
Joe McCahery, University of Amsterdam
