2^nd Multinational Energy and Value Conference

Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

http://www.rug.nl/feb/energyandvalue

July 2 – 5, 2009 Istanbul, TURKEY

The objective of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners from all over the world to focus on timely valuation issues in the energy sector. Papers dealing with developed as well as developing countries are welcome. Specific topics must refer to energy issues and include, but are not limited to:

Financial Regulation; Financial Markets; Financial Risks; Asset Pricing; Value at Risk; Capital Structure; Sourcing Capital; Corporate (Re-) Structuring; Corporate Governance; Behavioural Finance; Financial Performance; Cost Control; Financial Accounting; Fiscal and Legal Issues.

Please e-mail to energyandvalue@gmail.com, c/o Özgür Arslan, by the 15/ February/ 2009, a copy of a completed or nearly completed paper. The title page should include the affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail of each author together with appropriate JEL classifications. Each participant agrees to serve as a discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest, if needed.

Selected papers will be published in the special issues of the folowing international double-blind-reviewed journals; “Frontiers in Finance and Economics” and “Journal of Energy and Value”.

Further information regarding conference organisation and accommodation, travel arrangements, fees and activities will be published on the conference website in due course. The conference also includes a “practitioners day”, at no extra costs for conference presenters and discussants.

PROGRAM CHAIR

Mehmet Baha Karan – Hacettepe University, Turkey

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS (in alphabetical order)

Özgür Arslan - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Necmiddin Bagdadioglu – Hacettepe University, Turkey

Aydın Ulucan - Hacettepe University, Turkey

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in alphabetical order)

Ephraim Clark – Middlesex University, UK

André Dorsman  –  Nyenrode University & VU University, The Netherlands

Dimitrios Gounopoulos – University of Surrey, UK

Amrit Judge – Middlesex University, UK

Mohan Nandha – Monash University, Australia

Bert Scholtens - University of Groningen, The Netherlands

John Simpson – Curtin University, Australia

Panayiotis Theodossiou – Rutgers University, USA

Wim Westerman –  University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Uzi Yaari - Rutgers University, USA

LOCAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in alphabetical order)

Ramazan Aktas – ETU University, Turkey

Ali ALP - ETU University, Turkey

Sevil Atauz - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Kürşat Aydoğan – Bilkent University, Turkey

Selçuk Caner- Bilkent University, Turkey

Ali Çağlar -  Hacettepe University, Turkey

Budak Dilli – Ministry of Energy, Turkey

Metin Kamil Ercan – Gazi University, Turkey

Fakir Hüseyin Erdoğan – Energy Market Regulatory Authority, Turkey

C. Sencer İmer - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Mustafa Ömer İpçi - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Argun Karacabey – Ankara University, Turkey

Yalçın Karatepe - Ankara University, Turkey

Hasan Kazdağlı - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Mustafa Kaya - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Coşkun Küçüközmen – Central Bank of Turkey

Hüseyin Özel - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Mehtap Tatar - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Günzel Terzioğlu - Hacettepe University, Turkey

Hüsamettin Yıldırım - Energy Market Regulatory Authority, Turkey