Microfinance 2013 - Third European Research Conference on Microfinance

The aim of the European Research Conference on Microfinance is to be the World’s most important meeting place of academics involved in microfinance research. The two former conferences organized by the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) at the University Libre De Brussels, and by University of Groningen in the Netherlands have seen the turnout of several hundred researchers, as well as many practitioners interested in academic research, from across the globe. The upcoming conference is organized by the University of Agder in cooperation with the European Microfinance Platform (www.emf-p.eu), CERMi (www.cermi.eu) and University of Groningen (www.rug.nl/gsg) .
The conference aims to include, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Microinsurance
- Microequity
- Microsavings
- The social impact of microfinance
- The management of microfinance organizations
- Savings and Credit groups (VSLAs etc.)
- Informal financial organizations (ROSCAs etc.)
- Saving and credit cooperatives (SACCOs, credit unions etc.)
- Remittances and payment facilities in microfinance
- Investments in microfinance
- Information and communication technology in microfinance
- Historical pro-poor banking systems
- The governance of microfinance
- Regulation and policy issues in microfinance
- Ethical issues in microfinance
- Consumer behavior and microfinance
- Poor people’s money management
- Microfinance and entrepreneurship
- Gender issues in microfinance
- The economics of microfinance
- The non-profit economy and microfinance
- Development issues in microfinance
- The finance of microfinance
- Discrimination in microfinance
- International business issues in microfinance
Papers are selected based on academic quality. Theoretical as well as empirical papers are invited. Authors are invited to submit full papers to roy.mersland-AT-uia.no by 28 February 2013.