The ECO-TREND organizers invite anyone who wishes to present a paper to submit an abstract in English by September 23, 2008 through our online submission form.

Submiting a paper

The abstract should be about 100 words. All fields of specialization within business, economics environmental protection and humanities will be taken into consideration. You will receive a notification by e-mail once your paper is accepted (or rejected). By submitting an abstract, you also agree to contribute to the discussions and/or to their session Chair. The web form provides an opportunity to identify your areas of specialization. A participant may not present more than two papers. Consequently, you cannot register more than two papers for presentation unless a third paper is presented by a co-author who also is registered to participate in the conference.

Besides the abstract registration, full-length papers can be submitted either by providing a web link to a corresponding Word file on the registration form, or by uploading a Word file to the ECO-TREND server by following the link on the bottom of the registration confirmation page. Paper/hard copy submissions will not be accepted. In all cases, presenters are required to provide to their session chair a copy of their paper (preferably electronically) at least 2 weeks prior to the conference.

Presenting a paper

Paper sessions will consist of three to four presentations in a 60 minutes session divided equally among the presenters.

The equipment available for the presentations will be:

- Laptop Computer (Please see notes below regarding the laptops) *

- LCD Data Projector (with screen)

Topics

•  General Economics;

•  Financial Markets (in English);

•  Recent Developments in macroeconomics and labour economy (in French);

•  European Affairs / European Transportation (in French);

•  Business, Tourism;

•  Finance and Accounting;

•  Quantitative Methods and Statistic;

•  Informatics;

•  Environmental protection and Economic Engineering;

•  Humanities.

Important Dates

Registration,Conference fee & Payment

For this conference, the following registration fees apply. Registration fees include participation to the open ceremony, lunch and access to all Conference presentations and sessions.

• For Romanian authors, outside of “Constantin Brâncuşi” University, the conference registration fee is 70 Lei/author until November, 1 st, 2008 and 100 Lei/author from November 2 nd, 2008. The fee may be paid in the account RO10TREZ336504601X002052, opened at Târgu Jiu Treasury, CF 4597441, with remarks „ For the International Scientific Conference - ECOTREND-2008” ;

• For Romanian authors, inside of “Constantin Brâncuşi” University, the conference registration fee is 50 Lei/author until November, 1 st, 2008 and 70 Lei/author from November 2 nd, 2008. The fee may be paid in the account RO10TREZ336504601X002052, opened at Târgu Jiu Treasury, CF 4597441, with remarks „ For the International Scientific Conference - ECOTREND-2008” ;

• For Foreign authors, the conference registration fee is 50 Euro/author. The fee may be paid in the account RO47RNCB0149042108440003, opened at BCR Târgu Jiu, CF 4597441, with remarks „ For the International Scientific Conference - ECOTREND-2008” .

Conference language

Papers will be submitted in English or French Languages. Presentation can be in English, French or Romanian Languages. The sessions Recent Developments in macroeconomics and labour economy and European Affairs / European Transportation will be only in French and the session Financial Markets will be only in English.

Guidelines for authors

In order for a paper to be submitted to the International Scientific Conference European Developments and Globalisation, ECO-TREND 2008, for publication, the following should be taken into consideration:

• All papers must be in English or French. Only the papers written and presented in English will be evaluated for the publication in European Research Sudies ( www.ersj.eu )

• Submission of manuscripts: Manuscripts should be 1,5 spaced with wide margins (2,5cm left, 2cm right, 2cm top, 2cm bottom) and consecutively numbered pages (bottom left), A4. The text of the paper must write with 12 pt., Times New Roman, 1,5 spaced. The first page should be designed as to accommodate, along with part of the text, the following (in that order, reading from top to bottom): (a) the paper title and potential subtitle(s)-size 12, bold (b) the name and institution(s) of the author(s)-center, bold, size 10, (c) an abstract, that shouldn't exceed 100 words, with letter format size 10, Italic, (d) a footnote containing detailed information related to the author(s) (name, full address, institution in which the author(s) work, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, as well as any other relevant information), (e) a footnote, marked by an asterisk, containing potential acknowledgments. (see web site: http://www.ersj.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=5).

• Submission of manuscripts in electronic form: Authors must submit electronic papers. The submission should only contain the file(s) of the papers submitted for publication, in MS Word 2003 or later format for the text and MS Excel 2003 or later format for charts.

• Everything should be double-spaced (main text, footnotes, bibliography, etc.) Type of font-paragraph format required.

• References in the main text should cite, inside parentheses, the surname of the author(s) and the year of publication, e.g. (Harisson, 1998). Bibliography at the end of the main text (after potential appendices, before potential tables or legends for figures) should contain publications relevant to the subject of the paper, listed in alphabetical order by the authors` surname, as follows: For books: Hawawini, G. and I. Swary, 1990, "Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. banking industry: Evidence from the capital markets" (North-Holland, Amsterdam). For periodicals: Griffiths, W. and G. Judge, 1992, "Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown", Journal of Econometrics 54, 121-138. Abbreviations are only accepted in the authors' first names. 

• Footnotes should be as few and as short as possible (preferably devoid of tables or formulae), marked in the manuscript by superscripts in Arabic figures.

• Formulae should be numbered by consecutive, Arabic figures (such as (1), (2), etc.), placed on the right-hand side of the page.

• Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic figures and have a heading and a title. They should be placed on separate pages at the end of the text, after potential appendices and bibliography.

• The papers not presented propely will be rejected.

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