The topics for the international conference include, but not limited to, theoretical, experimental and empirical research in the following areas:

• Financial Institutions and Markets for Sustained Development

• Implementation of Basel II / Risk Management

• Financial Engineering/ Derivatives / Hedge Funds

• Interest Free Banking/ Islamic Finance

• Corporate Governance/ Ethics / Social Responsibility

• Entrepreneurship/ SME Finance / Microfinance

• Country Risk/Debt Issues/ Global Financial Crisis

• Emerging Markets/Privatization

• International Capital Structure Issues for Firms

• Initial and Seasoned Public Offerings and Equity Restructuring

• Investment Banking and Issuing of Corporate Securities

• Information Technologies and e-finance

• Market Behavior/Efficiency/Inefficiency

• Multinational Financial Management

• Financial Accounting, Regulation, Taxation, Compliance

• Quantitative Finance/Econometrics/ Financial Modeling

• International Project Financing/Risk Management

• Applied Macroeconomics

• Development Economics and Finance

• Financial Economics

• Energy Economics and Finance