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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) along with the Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) at the London School of Economics (LSE) is organizing The Fourth Annual International Capital Markets Conference 2023 on “Securities Market: Governance, Instruments and Regulations for Sustainable Development” sponsored by State Bank of India. NISM invites academicians, researchers, policy makers, regulators, students and other stakeholders to send original unpublished research papers. The conference is to be held in Mumbai at the NISM campus on 14-15 December, 2023.

KEY THEMES

Broad conference themes include the following:

1.Impact and Market Reactions to recent Regulatory Interventions;
2.Financial Instruments;
3.Corporate Governance Disclosures and Reporting;
4.Retail Investor Participation in Investments/Asset Classes;
5.Sustainability and Green Finance;
6.Fintech in Securities Markets;
7.Commodity Derivatives Markets.

For detailed description of the themes please refer the “Themes” tab on the conference webpage.

TIMELINES

  • Dates for the Conference: 14-15 December, 2023
  • Last date for Submission of Final Paper: September 14, 2023
  • Announcement of Acceptance of Paper for Presentation: October 25, 2023
  • Commencement of  Registration: October 3, 2023
  •  Registration Ends by: December 05, 2023

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Academicians, researchers, policy makers, regulators, students and other stakeholders are invited to submit:
i) original, unpublished academic research papers;
ii) with an empirical component; that uses Indian market and/or Global market data
iii) and is on a topic related to the themes of the conference.
We are only able to consider one paper per author.

For detailed paper submission guidelines please refer to the “Call for Papers” tab on the conference webpage.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

1.Papers must be stripped of any author or affiliation information to facilitate anonymous review. Authors should provide their information on the submission platform separately.
2.Papers must be submitted by the conference deadline of September 14, 2023, to be considered.
3.The Selection Committee’s decision on paper acceptance or rejection will be final. Papers not submitted in accordance with the submission guidelines will not be accepted.
4.The number of authors (corresponding author + co-authors) should not exceed 5.
5.The papers must adhere strictly to the themes provided in the call for papers. For themes kindly refer to the programme brochure.

Conference Coordinators
Dr. Latha Chari
Professor & HOD – SSIR, NISM
Email- latha.chari@nism.ac.in  
Dr. Kirti Arekar
Professor, NISM
Email- kirti.arekar@nism.ac.in
Dr. Kevin R. James
Co-investigator,
Systemic Risk Centre (SRC)
– LSE, United Kingdom
Email: k.James1@lse.ac.uk  
Dr. Jean-Pierre Zigrand
Co-director,
Systemic Risk Centre (SRC),
Associate Professor of Finance – LSE, United Kingdom
Email: j.p.zigrand@lse.ac.uk  
Dr. Kapil Shrimal
Associate Professor, NISM
Email- kapil.shrimal@nism.ac.in
Dr. Pradiptarathi Panda
Assistant Professor, NISM
Email- pradiptarathi.panda@nism.ac.in
Dr. Meraj Inamdar
Assistant Professor, NISM
Email- meraj.inamdar@nism.ac.in
Contact Details
For paper-related queries contact:
Dr. Anjali B.
Email Id: anjaly.b@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: 8999850949
WhatsApp No.: 9445175778
For registration-related queries contact:
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar
Email Id: ssir@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: +91 9326022370
WhatsApp No.: +91 7506581992
  • Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan

    Judge, Bombay High Court
  • Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan

    MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange of India
  • Mr. A. Balasubramanian

    Managing Director & CEO , Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited
  • Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan

    Founder , Chairman, CEO and Principal Shareholder, rediff.com
  • Professor Arman Eshraghi

    Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance & Investment at Cardiff Business School, UK
  • Professor Cheng-Few Lee

    Professor of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University, Editor in Chief of RQFA and RPBFMP
  • Dr. CKG Nair

    Director, NISM
  • Prof. Dong Lou

    Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics
  • G. Balasubramanian

    Senior Professor, IFMR Graduate School of Business- Krea University
  • Dr. Kevin R. James

    Economist - Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics.
  • Prof. N. R. Bhanumurthy

    Vice-Chancellor - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics University, Bengaluru (BASE University),
  • Prof. Partha Ray

    Director, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune
  • Mr. Sunil Kadam

    Registrar, NISM

For Program Schedule Click here

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Process

1.Papers must be stripped of any author or affiliation information to facilitate anonymous review. Authors should provide their information on the submission platform separately.
2.Papers must be submitted by the conference deadline of September 14, 2023, to be considered.
3.The Selection Committee’s decision on paper acceptance or rejection will be final. Papers not submitted in accordance with the submission guidelines will not be accepted.
4.The number of authors (corresponding author + co-authors) should not exceed 5.
5.The papers must adhere strictly to the themes provided in the call for papers. For themes kindly refer to the programme brochure.
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Additional Guidelines for First Time Authors

The guidelines for the paper submission are –
• There will be only one paper by one author/co-author.
• Only empirical papers will be considered for this conference.
• Papers shall not be longer than 10,000 words excluding bibliography and references.
• Papers shall be based on data sourced from authentic sources only. The source of data used/referred in the paper should be clearly mentioned.
• Papers needs to be submitted in pdf/word along with a maximum of 5 key words along with Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes.
• The paper should be unpublished, original and empirical.
• All papers will be automatically screened for plagiarism.
•All papers will be blind reviewed to ensure an adequate standard, proposed subject of the submitted abstract has been followed, length of paper.
• The author’s details including name, title, current position along with the name of the organization, and contact details need not to be mentioned in the full paper.
• No changes will be allowed in the paper title, paper and authorship after submission.
• Footnotes can be used but end notes need to be avoided.
• Authors will be fully responsible for the accuracy of the data used in the manuscripts. Due reference needs to be given in the paper for the same.
• Bibliographical references need to be cited using the American Psychological Association (APA) style.
• All tables need to 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 be in subscript lowercase letters and needs to be placed below the table body. The table font should be 10, times new roman and it should be properly aligned. Table numbers and figures/charts numbers should ideally come above the tables and charts.
• Paper should be in Times New Roman Font with a font size of 12 and spacing of 1.5 between the lines.
• All figures need to be numbered and titled in chronological order. The figures should not be blurred.
• Paper layout should be One-column Portrait.
• Any violation of the rules given above will cause for the desk rejection of the paper.

Bibliographic References

1. References 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.
2. References must appear at the end of the manuscript and not as footnotes on each page.
3. Each source cited in the paper must appear in the reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in the text portion of the paper.
4. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
5. Authors’ names need to be inverted (last name first); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors.
6. All major words in journal titles needs to be capitalize. When referring to books, chapters, articles, or webpages, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle.
7. An example of bibliographic reference is given below-
Sims, C. A., Stock, J. H., and Watson, M. (1990), Inference in Linear Time Series Models with Some Unit Roots, Econometrica58, 113–144.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF PAPERS AND AWARDS

1. Papers submitted on or before the timeline will only be considered.
2. The papers should be strictly as per themes provided in the call for papers.
3. Decision of Selection Committee on acceptance /rejection of the paper will be final.
4. An amount of ₹10,000 will be awarded per selected paper to the author (to the first author only, if the paper is co-authored).
5. The Three Best Paper Awards will be announced in the conference valedictory sessions as decided by a jury organized by NISM. The award amounts will be ₹45,000, ₹35,000 and ₹25,000. NISM reserves its right to not give awards at all or to restrict the number to less than three. The decision of Jury in this matter is final.
6. A Certificate of Participation will be provided to participants who attend the conference on both days across all sessions. The decision of the conference committee for issuing/not issuing any certificate is final. Soft Copy/Hard Copy of Certificates will not be dispatched or sent to the participants if he/she fails to collect at the time of Valedictory Address.

REGISTRATION

 

All interested participants including paper presenters will register through registration link. Registration Link for Participants will be provided on the date of opening of registration. (October 03, 2023).

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Timelines
  • Dates for the Conference: 14-15 December, 2023
  • Last date for Submission of Final Paper: September 14, 2023
  • Announcement of Acceptance of Paper for Presentation: October 25, 2023
  • Commencement of  Registration: October 3, 2023
  •  Registration Ends by: December 05, 2023

 

Registration Fees:

 Registration Fees for Indian Participants:  ₹1,500 (Inclusive of GST)
Registration Fees for International Participants: $50 (Inclusive of GST)

Accommodation Charges for all Participants**:
  1. Per day Deluxe AC Room (Double Occupancy): ₹1,650 + Applicable GST
  2. Per day Deluxe AC Room (Single Occupancy): ₹1,375 + Applicable GST

**Cost of Food is included with Registration Charges.

For registration-related queries contact:
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar
Email Id: ssir@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: 9326022370/7506581992
WhatsApp No.: 7506581992

THEMES

 

1. Impact and Market Reactions to recent Regulatory Interventions:
a)From T+2 to T+1 rolling settlement in equity
b)Impact of Online KYC
c)Effectiveness of new margin system
d)Interoperability and its impact
e)Effectiveness of Securities Markets Trainer Program

2. Financial Instruments:
a)REITs and InvITs – Structure and Performance, Margining Systems, and Papers that draw on global data and provide global comparisons will be preferred.
b)Emerging products Micro, Small and Medium REITS, Regulatory Framework and Global Comparisons, REITs and InvITs Index
c)Development and performance of Municipal Bond
d)Effectiveness of Green Bond: India vs Global Comparison
e)Need and performance of Zero Coupon Zero Principal Instrument

3. Corporate Governance Disclosure and Reporting:
a)Corporate Disclosures under Companies Act, SEBI LODR, etc.
b)Evaluating the Corporate Sustainability Performance
c)Corporate Governance & Disclosures – Challenges
d)Stewardship Code and Governance in Mutual Funds
e)Related Party Transactions and Effective Governance

4. Retail Investor Participation in Investments/Asset Classes:
a)Implication to Market Development across Asset Classes (Equity, Debt, Gold, Commodity etc.)
b)Implication to Market Quality – Price Discovery, Liquidity across Equity, Debt Derivatives and other segments
c)Behavioural Finance aspects of the retail investors participation
d)Better methods on improving financial Literacy

5. Sustainability and Green Finance – Evolution and Challenges:
a)Business Responsibility and Sustainable Reporting Disclosures, Evaluation of Quality of Disclosures, Frequency and Relevance from BRR to BRSR
b)Role of securities markets in sustainable finance
c)Effectiveness of Green Bonds, Green Investment Funds and related instruments
d)Global Comparison of methods to improve sustainability finance
e)The Triple Bottom line to ESG in sustainability
f)ESG Reporting and ESG Ratings
g)Sustainability, Climate Change and Pricing of Risk

6. Fintech in Securities Markets:
a)Digital Transformation in Capital Markets
b)Fintech Regulatory Issues in Capital Markets
c)Financial Technologies Supporting Economic Resilience
d)Roles of Machine Learning Models in Fintech

7. Commodity Derivatives Markets:
a)Role of Commodity Derivatives markets for Economic Growth
b)Regulations, Products, Risk Management and related topics
c)Issues and Challenges in Commodity derivatives Markets

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Q1. How the conference will be organized?
Ans: The Conference will be organized in Physical Mode at the below address.
NISM Campus,
Plot No. IS 1 & IS 2, Patalganga Industrial Area,
Mohopada, Rasayani, District Raigad,
Near Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra – 410222
Land Line: + 91- 2192-668300

Q2. Will I get the publication opportunity*?
Ans:  Yes, the conference presents an opportunity to publish in the journals/Books provided below.
1.Journal of Financial Stability (Scopus & A in ABDC) – Regular Issue
2. Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (Scopus & B in ABDC) – Special Issue
3. Investment Analysts Journal (Scopus & B in ABDC) – Regular Issue
4. Chapters in Springer Book titled “Securities Market: Governance, Instruments, and Regulations for Sustainable Development.” (Scopus) – Special Issue
5. Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (Scopus & B in ABDC) – Special Issue
6. International Review of Economics & Finance (Scopus & A in ABDC) – Regular Issue
7. The Journal of Alternative Investments (Scopus & B in ABDC) – Regular Issue

Note*: Only papers that are Selected for presentation at the conference can be submitted by the authors to the journal for publication, subject to the journal’s scope and fit. Authors will have to provide their consent and journal preference for submission of papers to the journal. The Journals will follow their own peer review process for publication and the journal editorial board decision will be final.

Q3. What are the criteria to get the certificate of participation?
Ans: Registered Participants who attend the conference on both days at NISM Campus, Patalganga will be given participation certificate. The certificate will be distributed at the campus registration desk on Day 2 of the conference, just before the valedictory session. Soft Copy/Hard Copy of Certificates will not be dispatched or sent to the participants if he/she fails to collect at the time of Valedictory Address.
Note: Conference Committee’s decision will be final in this matter.

Q4. Can I submit abstracts before full paper?
Ans: No, participants need not submit abstracts. You have to submit full paper only before the deadline provided for the same on the website.

Q5. How can I submit paper?
Ans: Paper Submission is closed for this conference. Please keep visiting the NISM website to get more updates on the 5th SEBI-NISM Research Conference 2023.

Q6. How to register?
Ans: All interested participants will have to register through registration link. Registration Link for Participants will be provided on the date of opening of registration (October 03, 2023) under Registration tab of the conference website.

Q7. Is there any fee for registration and accommodation?
Ans: Yes, there is fee for registration and accommodation (Cost of Food is included with Registration Charges).
Participants who plan to stay at the campus will have to additionally pay the accommodation charges based on their travel plans. Hence, registration fees and accommodation fees have to be paid for separately by the participants.
Registration Fees:
Registration Fees for Indian Participants ¬₹1,500 (Inclusive of GST)
Registration Fees for International Participants $50 (Inclusive of GST)
Accommodation Charges for all Participants**:
Per day Deluxe AC Room (Double Occupancy) ¬₹1,650 + Applicable GST
Per day Deluxe AC Room (Single Occupancy) ¬₹1,375 + Applicable GST
**Cost of Food is included with Registration Charges.

Q8. When will I receive the communication of Acceptance/Rejection of Paper for Presentation?
Ans: Kindly refer the conference webpage for the timelines.

Q9. How will I receive the communication of Acceptance/Rejection of Paper for Presentation?
Ans: Will be communicated later.

Q10. Can I get the extension for the submission of Full Paper?
Ans: The last date of submission is extended from September 11, 2023 to September 14, 2023.

Q11. Whom should I contact for further queries?
Ans:

For paper-related queries contact:
Dr. Anjali B.
Email Id: anjaly.b@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: 8999850949
WhatsApp No.: 9445175778

For registration-related queries contact:
Mr. Ashutosh Kumar
Email Id: ssir@nism.ac.in
Mobile No.: +91 9326022370
WhatsApp No.: +91 7506581992