In the practical arena of
global capital markets, Islamic banking and finance (IBF) instruments,
techniques, and principles have become widely integrated enough to now be
considered almost mainstream. Business managers in both developed and emerging
markets have developed methods for employing financing instruments that comply
with IBF structures against payment of interest and which are compatible with
the Musharaka mandates that there be true risk and profit-sharing between
"creditor"and "borrower". Leasing structures compatible
with Ijarah have been widely employed and over three-quarters of a trillion
dollars' worth of Islamic-compatible Sukuk bonds have now been issued over half
within the past four years. Despite the maturation of Islamic banking and finance
into a market with estimated turnover exceeding $2 trillion annually, top
academic researchers have been slow to embrace IBF as a topic for empirical and
theoretical analysis. This conference aims to overcome this academic inertia
and invigorate top-tier IBF research.
Paper Submission
Electronic submissions of
unpublished papers can be made beginning March 1, 2017 via the conference
submission website: https://www.softconf.com/i/ibfrc2017/.
The
deadline for submissions is June 30, 2017, and
authors will be notified by August 31, 2017. Papers
submitted solely by PhD students should be indicated accordingly. We expect the
selection process to be highly selective, since only 12 papers will be chosen.
Travel and lodging expenses of the presenting author of each accepted paper
will be paid by the conference.
Award and PhD Consortium
The conference will award two Best Paper prizes:
A Best Conference Paper Award (US$10,000)
A Best Doctoral Student Paper Award ($5,000).
