ABOUT THE SEMINAR

The seminar is jointly organised by NISM and TIES, invites research papers on “Current Issues and Policy Options in Financial Markets”. Web based Two-days seminar is to be held on August 26-27, 2020.

This seminar is open for all the researchers, faculty members, market intermediaries in the areas of Finance across the globe.

Key Themes:

  • COVID 19 impact to different sectors of India- manufacturing, service and Pharmaceutical sector
  • Macroeconomic scenario pre and post COVID 19
  • Impact of COVID on commodity markets (agricultural market, crude oil, gold etc.)
  • The use and contribution of econometrics and statistics on the policy making of financial markets
  • The cause and consequences of the market movements
  • Making sense of Published data by regulators like SEBI and RBI
No. Key Dates
01 Last date for paper submission 17th August 2020 till 5 pm.
02 Date of communication for acceptance of the paper 22th August 2020
03 Date of seminar 26th – 27th August ,2020
04 Seminar Registration Begins 15th August 2020
05 Last Date of Registration  24th August, 2020

CONTACT US

Coordinator:
Dr. Latha Chari
Associate Professor, NISM

 Co-Coordinator:
Dr. Pradiptarathi Panda
Assistant Professor, NISM

For registration and other seminar related information contact:
Ashutosh Kumar, Email id: ssir@nism.ac.in,
Mobile no.: 9326022370/7506581992.

ABOUT NISM

The National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) is a public trust established in 2006 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the regulator of the securities markets in India. The institute carries out a wide range of capacity building activities at various levels aimed at enhancing the quality standards in securities markets. The institute’s six schools of excellence work in synergy towards professionalized securities markets.

The vision of SSIR is “To be a hub of knowledge initiatives for playing a strategic role in quality enhancement and capacity building, for transforming the Securities Markets in India and the Asia-Pacific Region.”

SSIR aims at motivating and providing an enabling environment for conduct of top quality research that contributes immensely to the form and structure of financial markets; helps product innovations and deepening of the markets; evaluates and improves risk management methods and policy research aimed at making the markets a safe place for investors. SSIR shall actively support and complement the role of regulators in preserving market stability and integrity through unbiased robust research inputs.

The school also conducts policy forums in the areas related to Capital markets. The school receives research projects from SEBI, RBI, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The school welcomes young scholars as a visiting research scholars to work on some specific areas of Finance. The activities of the school include bringing out the working paper series, conduct national and international research conferences, organize workshops related to research methodology, Financial Econometrics , financial computing using R and Python and help capacity building across the industry and academics.
 
 

ABOUT TIES

The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) is a registered society under Public Societies Registration Act, formed in 1960. It is one of the oldest and largest body of professional econometricians and quantitative economists with more than 2000 members from all over India and abroad. TIES organises annual conference where experts from all over India and abroad participate and deliberate on various issues. TIES Conference is a renowned platform for economists and econometricians to have a dialogue on major issues in the subject as also present their findings.

 

  • SHRI. S.K. MOHANTY

    Whole Time Member, SEBI & Dircetor, NISM
  • Shri G. Mahalingam

    Whole Time Member, SEBI
  • Dr N.R. Bhanumurthy

    Vice-Chancellor, Bengaluru, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar School of Economics University and Secretary, TIES
  • Dr. Pami Dua

    Professor-Delhi School of Economics, Member of Monetary Policy Comittee, RBI and Former President, TIES
  • Ms. Shubdha Rao

    Founder of Quanteco, Former Senior group President & Chief Economist at YES Bank
  • Shri Sujit Prasad

    Executive Director, SEBI
  • Dr. K. Shanmugam,

    M S University, Baroda and Treasurer, TIES
  • Dr. H.K. Pradhan

    Professor, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur
  • Dr. Neeraj Hatekar

    Mumbai School of Economics and Policy
  • Prof. Rajiv Shastri

    Professor of Practice, NISM
  • Shri. Sunil Kadam

    Registrar, NISM

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDLINES

Empirical papers that seek to understand the structural and functional aspects of financial markets and specific themes offered for this web based one day research seminar can be submitted through: conference@nism.ac.in

Submission Guidelines:

The guidelines for the paper submission is given under-

  1. One author can submit one paper only. Only empirical papers will be considering for this seminar. Theoretical papers are not allowed.
  2. Papers can be submitted in soft copy along with an abstract of 250 words and maximum of 5 key words along with Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes. Abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations.
  3. The paper should be unpublished, original and empirical. The font should be in Times New Roman with 12 font size and single spaced.
  4. The length of the paper should not exceed 7000 words.
  5. The plagiarism of the paper should not exceed 25%. If it exceeds will not be consider for the review process.
  6. The paper should be uploaded in word or PDF without the author’s details. This is to process the paper to the blind review.
  7. The author’s details will be mentioned in the title page which includes the Author name, Title, Current position along with the name of the organisation, and contact details. These details shouldn’t be mentioned in the main paper. The authors need to submit two files. One is the title page and another is the main paper.
  8. No changes will be allowed in the paper title, abstract and authorship after submission.
  9. Foot notes can be used but avoid the end notes.
  10. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the data used in the manuscripts. Bibliographical references should be cited using the American Psychological Association (APA) style which should include (a) Author’s surname, initials as it appears on the cited works, (b) Year of publication, (c) “Title of the paper”, (d) Name of the Journal, (e) Volume number, (f) (Issue number), and (g) Page references.
  11. Tables: All tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals and should always be cited in the text with consecutive numbers. Each table should contain a Title of the Table. Footnotes of the table should contain the subscript lower case letters and include beneath the table body. The table font should be 10, times new roman and it should be in properly aligned. 
  12. Figures: All figures have to be numbered and titled in chronological order. The figures should not be blurred.
  13. All papers will go through a blind review process and the status of acceptance of the paper will be intimated to the author over email thereafter. Any violation of the rules given above will cause for the rejection of the paper.

REGISTRATION

No. Key Dates
01 Last date for paper submission  17th August 2020 till 5 pm.
02 Date of communication for acceptance of the paper 22th August 2020
03 Date of seminar 26th – 27th August ,2020
04 Seminar Registration Begins 15th August 2020
05 Last Date of Registration 24th August, 2020 till 5 pm

How to register?
All interested participants including paper presenters will register through registration link:

Registration is closed.

Note:

* Registration fees: Nil 
* E-Certificate of participation as well as of presentation will be provided. 
* We will not be providing any Publication opportunity. 
* There will be no remuneration in terms of monetary awards or prizes.

For registration contact:
Ashutosh Kumar,
Email id: ssir@nism.ac.in,
Mobile no.-9326022370/7506581992.

THEMES

Key Themes:
  • COVID 19 impact to different sectors of India- manufacturing, service and Pharmaceutical sector
  • Macroeconomic scenario pre and post COVID 19
  • Impact of COVID on commodity markets (agricultural market, crude oil, gold etc.)
  • The use and contribution of econometrics and statistics on the policy making of financial markets
  • The cause and consequences of the market movements
  • Making sense of Published data by regulators like SEBI and RBI