22nd Biennial Conference 2017
Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
The 22nd Biennial Conference of the Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS) is scheduled to take place during July 31st – August 1st, 2017. The two-day event will have several academic sessions and invited lectures on the topics of interest to most of the students and researchers on the Indian Economy. The organizing committee is attempting to develop a theme that is broad enough to encompass a variety of issues in development economics generally and the Indian economy in particular. The AIEFS has a broad focus covering all areas in economics and finance. Special preference would be given to papers using micro data including firm level data.
The following details may be of use in planning your participation in the conference:
Dates: 31st July -1st August, 2017
Venue: Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), (an Indian Council of Social Science Research institute), Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar-751013 Odisha, INDIA
Lodging and Registration: To be announced later. Participants can plan to arrive on Sunday July 30th and depart on August 2nd.
Chair, Local Organizing Committee in Bhubaneswar, India: Professor Srijit Mishra, Director, NCDS
E-mail: or
Full conference details and updates will be published online at
http://www.aiefs.org at a later date.
Keynote Speakers: To be announced later.
Journal Special Issue: After the conference, participants will have the opportunity to submit their papers to a journal special issue or book volume which will be announced at the conference.
Those wishing to make a presentation or arrange a session in the Biennial Conference are requested to send the necessary information as early as possible. The information should contain:
1. The name(s) of the author(s) & Citizenship
2. Detailed 5 page abstract of a previously unpublished paper or the full paper if available
3. Affiliation of all the author(s)
4. Contact addresses: e-mail, telephone and postal
5. The presenter’s areas of specialization and a statement of interest in discussing the papers of other presenters.
Deadline for Paper Submission: APRIL 20, 2017
Please send ALL the required information to:
Prof. Chandana Chakraborty, AIEFS Executive Director, Department of Economics & Finance, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
E-mail: , Tel: 973 594 0614
Tentative Acceptance/Rejection Decision Date: MAY15, 2017
Note: Once the acceptance decision has been made, the selected authors (both India and non-India based) would be required to pay their full registration fees before the papers could be included in the program. The exact addresses for sending payments will be announced later.
Prof. Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
President, AIEFS
Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5604, USA