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From: David Lingelbach [
lingelbach@jhu.edu]
David Lingelbach
Stevenson University
and Johns Hopkins SAIS
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Financial Market Development and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest Editors:
Wim Naudé
United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland
David Lingelbach
Stevenson University, Owings Mills, Maryland, USA
and Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington, DC, USA
After many decades of stagnation and financial repression, greater access to finance has been providing an unprecedented stimulus to entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years. In particular, the development of financial markets has boosted high-potential entrepreneurial ventures in sectors ranging from biotechnology to telecommunications and services. With the world now staring its worst financial and economic crisis in 80 years in the face, the question has been raised: what are the implications of this development for further financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa, and how the crisis may impact on entrepreneurship. As such the time is ripe for an appraisal of financial market development and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa.
In particular, the JEF is planning a special issue devoted to this topic, and is calling for scholarly papers that will further our understanding of Africa's financial markets, how they do and do not support entrepreneurship, how their development may be related to the commodity-price cycle, how international uncertainties will impact on their development, and what steps may be need to further promote financial markets. Whether and how seed, startup, and early stage finance, such as venture capital (VC) and angel investing, can play a role in start-ups in Africa's often risky and institutionally weak environments is one aspect in this regard that has been relatively neglected in the recent literature. Papers presenting case studies, cross-country comparisons, theoretical and empirical analysis as well as literature reviews are welcome, and both quantitative and qualitative research methods will be considered.
Papers conforming to the editorial guidelines of JEF should be submitted to the JEF secretariat at
elsien@uj.ac.za<mailto:
elsien@uj.ac.za> and authors should clearly indicate in their covering letter that their paper is intended for the "Special Issue on Financial Market Development and Entrepreneurship in Africa."
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2009.
Papers will be reviewed using the normal double-blind process at JEF.
For additional information and queries regarding the Special Issue, please contact the issue guest editors:
WIm Naudé, United Nations University,
Wim@wider.unu.edu<mailto:
Wim@wider.unu.edu>
David Lingelbach, Stevenson University and Johns Hopkins SAIS,
lingelbach@jhu.edu<mailto:
lingelbach@jhu.edu>
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