The Islamic finance sector has experienced exponential growth in the last few decades. Islamic banking institutions are now established in over 50 countries and account for more than 15% of the financial landscape in most of these countries. The success of the Islamic financial industry is all the more evident since it has come during a period when the conventional financial industry was experiencing a crisis. From the Olympic village in London to Burj Khalifa in Dubai, shariah compliant investments are making inroads on a global scale. The global Islamic financial assets stand at $2 trillion with Pakistan and Malaysia at the forefront. With nearly 1/5th of the banking sector in the two countries reliant on the Islamic financial services with double digit annual growth, the potential of Islamic financial services is huge.

Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) recognizes that this incredible potential for growth has its challenges. SDSB is paving the way for the development of Islamic finance in the country by offering specialized courses in this area with the establishment of a dedicated Centre for Islamic Finance (CIF) to further scholarship in Islamic Finance. Undergraduate and graduate courses are being offered in Islamic Banking and Finance, Accounting for Islamic Financial Institutions, Islamic Management and Ethics, and Islamic Risk Management.

In collaboration with IBA (Karachi) and INCEIF (Malaysia), SDSB is now organizing a joint 3rd Islamic Finance, Banking and Business Ethics Global (IFBBE) Conference. The conference dates are set to May 2018 and will take place at our purpose-built campus in Lahore, Pakistan. This conference seeks to bring together scholars and professionals engaged in research (both practical and academic) on the growth and development of Islamic Finance to present their research papers/ideas to a broader audience.
 

All submissions will be reviewed based on originality, rigor, and relevance to the conference theme. All accepted manuscripts will be presented at the conference.

Authors are requested to submit full-text papers (.doc, .docx or .pdf) including results, tables, figures and references through electronic submission systems which can be found here. The paper should not be more than 25 pages (including the abstract, figures, tables and references) single spaced in Times New Roman 12pt font in A4 size page. Page margin from Top = 0.75", Bottom = 1.69", Left = Right = 0.56" should be set.

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The case and teaching note should be a .doc, .docx or .pdf file/s, single spaced using Times New Roman 12pt font in A4 size page. Page margin from Top = 0.75", Bottom = 1.69", Left = Right = 0.56" should be set. The case itself should normally not exceed 20 pages, including all exhibits. Teaching note is mandatory for a case submission. To ensure a blind review process, please do not include any author information in your document (check File Properties to ensure that your name is not automatically provided as author of the document).

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Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS, IBA (Karachi) and INCEIF invite research papers and teaching cases submissions on the following topics. This is an indicative, non-exhaustive list:

  Academicians

  Postgraduate and research students

  Professional associations

  Professionals from business organizations

  Other interested parties

Selected Papers will be invited for possible submission to “Economic Modelling” (ABDC-A). The submission will follow the journal review process.

Dr Paresh Kumar Narayan, Professor & Director Centre for Financial Econometrics, Deakin

Dr Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Professor of Economics Econometrics, Universitat Jaume I (Spain) & Associate Researcher at the Ivie (Valencian Institute for Economic Research)

Dr Jonathan Batten, Professor Monash University and Editor of ABDC “A” Rated Journals i) Emerging Markets Review and ii) Journal of Int. Fin. Inst. & Markets

Dr Jawad Syed, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Dr M Abdur Rahman Malik, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Dr Kamran Ali Chatha, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Ms Ayesha Bhatti, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Dr Syed Aun Raza Rizvi, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Dr Atif Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Dr Salman Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Ms Atifa Arif Dar, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Mr Waqar Ali, Lahore University of Management Sciences