Weekly Announcements – January 4, 2010

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009

In cooperation with the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, the Financial Economics Network (FEN) is pleased to announce the 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting ejournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The AFBC is an annual event organized by the School of Banking and Finance in conjunction with the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. The event aims to promote discussion and interaction among researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in finance and banking fields, and draws a large crowd of both international and Australian participants to the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney every December. The conference runs over three days and includes plenary sessions with distinguished keynote speakers, break-out sessions, social events, a Business Forum, a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance, a session for PhD students, and other initiatives such as the Networking Women in Finance session that discusses gender initiatives in the field. This abstracting ejournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the Annual Conference. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific ejournals within FEN and, where appropriate, in the ejournals of our sister networks.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/22nd-Australasian-2009.html
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Announcing AAA 2010 MAS Meeting Abstracts & Papers on SSRN

In cooperation with the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the AAA 2010 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting ejournal is available to all subscribers at no charge and contains abstracts of the meeting papers with links to the full text in the SSRN eLibrary.

The Management Accounting Section strives to stimulate and improve the teaching, research, and practice of accounting, which assists in the effective and efficient management of entities. This abstracting ejournal provides a data warehouse for all abstracts and papers presented at the Midyear Meeting. Abstracts of the papers will also be published in subject-specific ejournals within ARN and, where appropriate, in the ejournals of our sister networks.

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/AAA-MAS-2010.html
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Conference URL: http://aaahq.org/mas/

The Shelf Project Joins LSN Law Research Centers Papers Series

We are pleased to announce that The Shelf Project has started a Law Research Centers Papers series in the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

THE SHELF PROJECT
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Shelf-Project-RES.html

The proposal is made as a part of the Shelf Project, which is a collaboration among tax professionals to develop and perfect proposals to help Congress raise revenue. The current deficit, now at $1.6 trillion or 11.2 percent of GDP, cannot be sustained. In the impending revenue crisis, base-protecting revenue provisions that were not possible under ordinary politics become political necessities. Shelf projects defend the tax base and improve the rationality and efficiency of the tax system. Shelf Project proposals are intended to raise revenue without raising rates because the best tax systems have the broadest possible base to reach the lowest feasible tax rates.