Call for Papers: "Business Finance in Africa", 04/01

Business Finance in Africa

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 onApril 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:

31stDecember 2000: Deadline forpresenting abstract or outline of thepaper (not more than 300 words) for the conference. Papers for presentation at the conference will be accepted on the basis of these abstracts.

1stMarch 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.

31stJuly 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 [editor: Sam.Okoroafo@UToledo.edu] will appear as Vol.3 No.1 2002

Contact:

Dr. Astede Woldie
Glamorgan Business School
University of Glamorgan
Treforest, Pontypridd, CF 3710L
United Kingdom

OR

Dr. Victor Murinde
Birminghan Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbastton, Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom