Welcome to 6^th Portuguese Finance Network to be held at the Azores, July 1-3, 2010

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Stewart Myers
(Finance Professor from Sloan School of Management, MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [CV]

Lecture: “How to Think About Corporate Governance”

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the upcoming PFN 2010 Conference. The conference will be held on July 1-3, 2010 in the Azores islands off the coast of Portugal. The University of the Azores will be our host.

PFN foremost activity is the organisation of a major international conference every two years where academic researchers from all parts of the world can present and discuss papers in the field of Finance.

Papers in all areas and overlapping areas regarding finance and financial crisis are welcomed. The specific topics are presented below:

Corporate Finance; International Asset Market Structures; Financial Regulation and Liberalization; Financial Bubbles; Microstructure of Developed and Emerging Markets for all Asset Classes; Linkages Between Stock and Foreign Exchange Markets; Foreign Exchange Market Arbitrage; Extremes and Value at Risk; International Portfolio Management and Pricing Models; International Regulation and Performance of Financial Institutions and Money Managers; The Role of Information in Financial Decisions; International Capital Structure Issues for Firms; Initial and Seasoned Public Offerings and Equity Restructuring; Investment Banking and Issuing of Corporate Securities; Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting Mergers, Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring and Takeover Defences; Corporate Ownership, Control, Governance and Compensation and Firm Performance; Cost of Bankruptcy and Financial Distress; Macro Finance, including Inflation and Monetary Policy; Micro Finance; The Term Structure of Interest Rates; Real Options; Behavioural Finance.

A special issue of The European Journal of Finance will be edited by the PFN 2010 conference.

Novelties will be constantly updated on the PFN 2010 website.