CALL
FOR PAPERS
The
University of Glamorgan, April 21-22, 2001
Papers
are invited from academics, policy makers as well as practitioners in business
and industry for a conference on the theme of “Business Finance in Africa”
to be held at University of Glamorgan on
April 21-22, 2001. Some of
the interesting ideas include (but are by no means limited to):
·
patterns
of business financing in Africa
·
capital
structure issues in Africa
·
agency
theory and business finance in Africa
·
financing
policy and business ownership in Africa
·
dividend
policy in African business/firms
·
microstructure
of African stock markets
·
banks
versus stock markets in Africa
·
the
banking market in Africa
·
investment
and risk management in Africa
·
scope
for insurance in African business
·
tax
shields and business finance in Africa
·
fiscal
policy/monetary policy/ exchange rate policy and business finance in Africa
·
financial
liberalisation and business finance patterns in Africa
·
capital
flight of business finance in Africa
·
aid,
tax effort and private sector investment in Africa
·
government
spending and private sector investment in Africa
A
selection of papers from the conference will be published in a Special Issue of
the Journal of African Business under the guest editorship of (Dr Atsede Woldie,
the University of Glamorgan, and Professor Victor Murinde, the University of
Birmingham. The usual refereeing
procedures will be used to screen papers from those presented (and those
submitted but not presented) at the two-day conference.
We aim to assemble papers which hang well together but which also offer
diverse approaches to the analysis of the main issues and policies relating to
the theme of business finance in Africa. In
all, we expect to publish 13 papers (each of about 9,000 words maximum) in the
Special Issue of the Journal.
In
terms of the timescale, it is intended to obeserve the following deadlines:
·
31st
December 2000: Deadline for presenting
abstract or outline of the paper
(not more than 300 words) for the conference.
Papers for presentation at the conference will be accepted on the basis
of these abstracts.
·
1st
March 2001: Deadline for submission of complete papers for the
conference. Papers will be
blind-refereed during March and April and comments will be made available at the
conference.
·
31st
July 2001 (Post-conference): Submission of accepted papers for the
Special Issue of the Journal of African Business i.e. authors of accepted papers
will have a very short time to incorprate the referee’s comments as well as
comments of conference particiapnts.
·
The
Special Issue will appear as Vol. 3, No. 1, 2002.
Contact:
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