12:30 - 14:00, 8th May 2014

Jubilee Foyer

Banking

• Abdullah AL-ASHIKH 
  Efficiency and Shareholder value Creation in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Banking Sector
• Alma Sharipova 
  Banking Sector Performance in the CIS countries: Efficiency, Market Power, Ownership, Risks 
  
• Duc Duy NGUYEN
  Where did we go wrong? Bank governance and regulatory enforcement actions

Corporate Finance

• Amna Noor
  Political Connections in Merger & Acquisition Frame work
• Lisa Spencer
  Institutional Effects on SME Internationalisation
• Ruba Shira
  Corporate Governance, Ownership Structure in Family-Owned Enterprises: The Experience of GCC
  

Econometrics

• Katina Tsakou
  Forecasting stock return volatility: a comparison of GARCH models and implied volatility
• Yang Zhao
  Time-varying Skewed t Copula Models with Applications

Financial Economics

• Alanoud Al-Maadid
  Volatility Spillover Between Food &Energy Prices
  
• Mohamad Helmi
  Does credit cause economic growth? Time-series evidence from 14 countries

Investments & Decisions

• Alya Al-Nasseri
  The Predictive Value of Stock Micro-blogging Sentiment in Predicting Stock Market Behaviour
  
• Larisa Yarovaya
  An Empirical Framework to Assess International Portfolio Diversification in Emerging Markets
• Xing Chen
  What Explain ETF Premium/Discount? Evidence from iShares Country ETFs
  

Quantitative Finance

• Antonella Tolomeo
  A generalized model of asymmetric information in Fads models

Risk

• Shimeng SHI
  Dynamics and Determinants of Credit Risk Discovery: Liquidity-Free Credit Spreads