Announcement

The 20^th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management
will be held at Rutgers University, USA
on September 8 and September 9, 2012.

Conference Organizers:

Rutgers University, USA

Foundation of Pacific Basin Financial Research and Development, Taiwan

Program Co-Directors:

Cheng-Few Lee, Rutgers University, USA

Daniel Weaver, Rutgers University, USA

Keynote Speakers:

Kose John, New York University, USA 1Bio

Wayne Ferson, University of Southern California, USA 1Bio

Baruch I. Lev, New York University, USA 1Bio

Special Speaker:

Louis Scott, UBS, USA 1Bio

Sponsors:
Dean's Office, Rutgers Business School

Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School

Center for Governmental Accounting, Education, and Research (CGAER), Rutgers Business School

Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services, Rutgers Business School

Department of Supply Chain Management and Marketing Sciences, Rutgers Business School

Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd, Taiwan

Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College

World Scientific

Springer

Paper Submission

The deadline for paper submission is March 31, 2012. Authors should send a Word or PDF file of their completed paper in English. Each submission should have the following on the cover page:

1. Title of the paper

2. Each author’s

o name

o Affiliation

o E-mail address

o Fax number

o Telephone number

On the second page of the paper should be an abstract. Only electronic submissions will be accepted to lee@business.rutgers.edu and cflee@mail.nctu.edu.tw. Authors will be notified of the review committee’s decision by April 15, 2012.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Issues of WTO	Corporate Governance	Financial Engineering
Executive Compensation Schemes	Fair Value Accounting and IFRS	Market Microstructure
Financial Reform after Financial Crisis	Derivative Securities	Debt & Equity Markets
Managed Funds	Bank Risk Management	New Basel Capital Accord
Marketing	Auditing	Business Policies
Accounting Information System	Financial Accounting	Governmental & Not-for-Profit Accounting
Macroeconomics	Actuarial Science and Insurance	Lessons Learned from Bank Failure Management
Financial Market & Economic Development	Real Estate Finance & Mortgaged-Backed Securities	Corporate Finance and Restructuring

Conference Registration Fee

Please send conference registration fee US $250 which covers one dinner and 2 lunches (check to be made payable to Rutgers University) to following address. Please note that the registration form and a title page of your submitted paper should be sent along with the check.　

Prof. Cheng-Few Lee

Rutgers Business School

Room 141, Janice H. Levin Building

Rockafeller Road

Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8054

USA

Tel: (848) 445-3530

Fax: (732) 445-5927

Please note that the Registration fee of 2012 PBFEAM is as follow:

Registered before June 30, 2012: the registration fee will be US$ 250

Registered after June 30, 2012: the registration fee will be US$ 300

Publication Note

To be considered for publication, the author should formally submit his/her paper to http://www.editorialmanager.com/requ and send US$150 submission fee (check to be made payable to Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting) to the following address. Professor Lee will decide the paper will be published in RQFA, RPBFMP, AFPF, AIAPM, AQAFA, or Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, & Finance in accordance with the reviewer’s comments.