IIMA-B-C to hold the third India Finance Conference(IFC) in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, 16 December 2013

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)

will host the third India Finance Conference (IFC) 2013 on December 18, 2013 and December 19, 2013. The conference will be inaugurated on December 18, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. at Ravi J Matthai Auditorium, IIMA Main Campus. The conference is being organized jointly by IIM, Ahmedabad, IIM, Bangalore and IIM, Calcutta.

Nearly 100 academics, researchers, and practitioners from India and abroad are expected to present papers, during the two day event.

The inaugural address will be delivered by Prof. Ravi Jagannathan, Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. This would be followed by a keynote address on “Getting Better – Learning to Invest in an Emerging Stock Market” by Prof. Tarun Ramadorai, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

The second day will have Prof. Kose John, Charles William Gerstenberg Professor of Banking and Finance, NYU Stern School of Business, New York University deliver the keynote address on the topic “Risk and Governance in Corporations and Banks”.

The event includes technical sessions on Asset Pricing; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Market Linkages; Market Microstructure Derivatives & Regulation.

The National Stock Exchange of India is the principal sponsor and Axis Bank is the associate sponsor of the conference.

For more details, please visit the link: http://financelab.iimcal.ac.in/ifc/