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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has joined hands with Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) to organize “The 28th AsianFA Annual Meeting” for the first time in Thailand, during June 27-28, an annual academic conference to present research papers of finance academic, graduate student, and practitioners worldwide to promote innovation for financial and capital market development.
SET Senior Executive Vice President Santi Kiranand said, “Innovation is one of the key drivers to enhance capital market’s quality and sustainability. Research plays an important role in all the value chain process from developing strategy, product and process development, process and concept enhancement among others to promote effective outputs. The 28th AsianFA Annual Meeting is an open platform for finance scholars and practitioners worldwide to meet and share over 140 of their recent research studies, while exchanging ideas and expertise, as well as updating new developments in finance and capital research. This gathering aims to practically raise the quality of financial and capital markets.”
This year 140 papers, out of 300 papers, have passed the double-blind review by a committee of established researchers. There are a wide range of topics, such as Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, Derivatives and International Finance submitted from countries worldwide such as the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, etc. In addition to the work from professional researchers, and professors from top universities around the world, there are also research studies from university students. Students in Thailand who have presented their papers are from Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University. The best research in each category will receive recognition as well as prizes, including SET best paper awards in capital market.
The event is also supported by The Siam Commercial Bank Pcl. For more information, please visit, www.set.or.th/asianfa2016.
