XKDR Forum in collaboration with Vanderbilt law School is inviting papers to be submitted for the 16 th Emerging Markets Conference, 2025. In the past, the audience for these events has comprised of academics, participants from the legal and financial industry, policy makers from government and regulators.

The conference aims to cover presentations and discussions across the following set of research topics:

• The sources of economic success or failure in EMs
• Finance in EMs (households, financial markets, financial intermediaries, firms and finance, finance and growth)
• Political economy, law, public administration, regulation in EMs
• The impact of populism upon the possibility of sustained growth
• Insights into large EMs that matter in and of themselves
• Insights from narrow research projects that illuminate EMs in general
• The new phase of globalisation and its consequences for international trade, international finance and the nature of the EM firm
• Features of a society that enable or disable convergence into the "normal" package of high levels of freedom and prosperity.
• The puzzles faced by all kinds of decision makers: individuals, civil society actors, firms, all levels of government.
• Grand challenges such as climate change: implications for EMs and ramifications of choices made in EMs
• State capability in EMs

The ideal papers for EMC shed light on the great questions of the age, while being analytically sound and persuasive.

Program Committee

• Dan Awrey, Cornell Law School
• Vimal Balasubramaniam, Queen Mary University of London
• Bidisha Chakrabarty, Saint Louis University
• Tanika Chakraborty, IIM Calcutta
• Adam Feibelman, Tulane University
• Joshua Felman, J H Consulting
• Indradeep Ghosh, Dvara Research Foundation
• Kose John, NYU, Stern School
• Chotibhak (Pab) Jotikasthira, Cox School of Business
• Sanjay Kallapur, Indian School of Business
• Marios Panayides, The University of Oklahoma
• Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University
• Renuka Sane, TrustBridge Rule of Law Foundation
• Rajeswari Sengupta, IGIDR
• Ajay Shah, XKDR Forum
• Rambhadran Thirumalai, Indian School of Business
• Susan Thomas, XKDR Forum
• Harsh Vardhan, Independent Advisor
• Kumar Venkataraman, SMU Cox School of Business
• Pradeep Yadav, The University of Oklahoma
• Yesha Yadav, Vanderbilt Law School

Please submit your papers in pdf format by following this link .