Int'l conference at Shenzhen China (deadline: January 2008)

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The 2nd International Conference of Market Development and Investment
Strategies (MDIS2008) is scheduled to be held at the ShenZhen, China
on March 14-15, 2008.
Details about the conference will be updated at the conference
website
(http://www.mdis2008.org/).

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2008

CONFERENCE THEMES
Stability and Risk in the International Financial System:
Have its institutional underpinnings and the nature of the
risk changed?

(1) Could the Asian crisis happen again?
(2) What is the emerging role of the International Monetary Fund -
-irrelevance or new talks?
(3) What is the future role of the US $ ? How are foreign currency
markets changing?
(4) New forms of contagion -- lessons from the US sub-prime crisis?
National Investment Funds -- and Hedge funds -- allies or competitors
and their implications for international finance and investment...
(5) China's impact on global markets (financing of US debt, China's
exchange rate policy)

Conference co-chairs:

Professor Ali M. Kutan, PhD. Southern Illinois University ,
Edwardsville.
Professor WenChang Fang, PhD. National Taipei University
Professor Chuang-Yuang Lin, PhD.

Co-Sponsor:
College of Business, National Taipei University
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (SSCI, Journal)
Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research

Submission Deadline:
extended to 2008/1/10

Other Information:

If you have any question about MDIS 2008, you can contact with
conference secretary at MDIS...@gmail.com

Conference Venue:
Shenzhen is a southern China city next to the boundary of Hong Kong.
It
is only about 25km away from the core urban area of Hong Kong. Since
the late 1970, Shenzhen is a centre of foreign investment and one of
the fastest growing cities in the world. It is also the busiest port
in
China after Shanghai.
More information about Shenzhen could be available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen

Registration
Registration will begin on January 1, 2008.
For early registration before January 31, 2008,
the registration fee is US$400 per person/paper;
and US$450 after January 31, 2008.

The registration fee includes conference attendance,
two lunches and coffee breaks for the duration,
and CD of the conference proceedings.

History
MDIS 2007 was held in Taipei at March 9-10, 2007.