Multinational Finance Society Symposium April 7-8, 2014, Larnaca, Cyprus Submission Deadline: February 7, 2014

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ian Cooper – London Business School, UK

Gikas Hardouvelis – University of Piraeus, Greece

ORGANIZED BY

Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Panayiotis Theodossiou – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Panikkos Poutziouris – University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

Panayiotis Andreou – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nihat Aktas – WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Yakov Amihud – New York University, USA

George Athanassakos – University of Western Ontario, Canada

Suleyman Basak – London Business School, UK

Simon Benninga – Tel Aviv University, Israel

Jeffrey Callen – University of Toronto, Canada

George M. Constantinides – University of Chicago, USA

Manthos Delis – University of Surrey, UK

Phil Holmes – Leeds University, UK

George Kapetanios – Queen Mary University of London, UK

Tassos Malliaris – Loyola University of Chicago, USA

Alexander Michaelides – Imperial College London, UK

Roni Mihaely – Cornell University, USA

Nikolaos T. Milonas – University of Athens, Greece

Christos Negakis – University of Makedonia, Greece

Steven Ongena – University of Zurich, Switzerland

Jay Ritter – University of Florida, USA

George Skiadopoulos – University of Piraeus, Greece

Theodore Sougiannis – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Lenos Trigeorgis – University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Avi Wohl – Tel Aviv University, Israel

David Yermack – New York University, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alexandros Apostolides – European University Cyprus, Cyprus

Kostas Giannopoulos – Neapolis University, Cyprus

Loukas Glyptis – University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

Neophytos  Lambertides – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Christodoulos Louca – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Photis Panayides – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Andreas Petrou – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Christos Savva – Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

George Theocharides – CIIM, Cyprus

Adamos Vlittis – University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

MFJ SPECIAL ISSUE

A special issue of the Multinational Finance Journal will be devoted to relevant papers presented at the symposium and submitted for publication.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Papers in all areas of finance and economics dealing with developed and developing countries are welcome. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: International Asset Market Structures; Corporate Ownership, Governance and Compensation and Firm Performance; Issues of Governance and Management Control; Cost of Bankruptcy and Financial Distress; Capital Structure Issues for Firms; Capital Structures in the Post Crisis Era; Banking in Crisis; Initial and Seasoned Public Offerings and Equity Restructuring; Investment Banking and Issuing of Corporate Securities; Financial Reporting; Mergers, Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring and Takeover Defences; Behavioral Finance; Microstructure of Developed and Emerging Markets; Portfolio Management and Pricing Models; International Corporate Pension Fund Policies; Institutions; Public Sector Financial Constraints in Times of Austerity; Management Traits and Decision Making; The Role of Social Media in the Dissemination of Information; The Management of Restraints in Sources of Finance; Shipping Finance; Maritime Economics.

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please visit our website at http://www.mfsociety.org to submit a copy of a completed or nearly completed paper.

The cover page should include the affiliation, address, phone and email of each author. Each participant agrees to serve as a discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest, if needed.

Please include of whether you would like your paper to be considered for the Special Issue of the MFJ.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the symposium, accommodations, feature speakers, travel arrangements, fees and other activities will be published on the MFS website as needed. Information about past conference can be found on the website as well.