SWISS SOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL MARKET RESEARCH (SGF)

17th SGF CONFERENCE

Zurich, SIX Swiss Exchange, April 11, 2014

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2013, 24.00 CET

Submission of Papers

We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research until October 31, 2013, 24.00 CET.

Papers must be in English. For online paper submission please visit our website . When submitting a paper to the conference, you may also choose to directly submit to the journal “Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (FMPM)”. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference are eligible for the Best Paper Award sponsored by SIX Swiss Exchange which carries a cash prize of 4'000 CHF.

Registration for Participation

There is no deadline for registration. The conference fee is 120 CHF. In case you have not registered for conference participation by April 10, 2014, the walk-in rate amounts to 170 CHF. Furthermore, there will be a pre-conference dinner in Zurich on April 10, 2014. The fee for this dinner amounts to 120 CHF. For registration please refer to our website www.fmpm.ch/conference.

For further questions please contact

Michael Herold or Christian Putz c/o University of Bamberg • Chair of Banking and Financial Control

Kärntenstr. 7 • 96052 Bamberg • Germany Phone: +49 - (0)951 - 863 2098 • Fax: +49 - (0)951 - 863 2092 sgf-conference@fmpm.ch • www.fmpm.ch

Conference Board Chairman of the Conference Board: Matthias Muck Academic Conference Board: Nicole Branger • Andre Guettler •  Karl Keiber • Olaf Korn • Holger Kraft • Antje Mahayni • Andreas Oehler • Stefan Ruenzi • Markus Schmid Honorary Board Member: Markus Rudolf