The 5th International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE-2013) hosted by IIM Indore from May 9 to12, concluded on Sunday. During the four day conference, more than 150 research papers were presented by researchers from all over India and USA, Malaysia and UK. These papers were selected from more than 350 papers received during the screening process.
The closing ceremony started with the address by Prof Ranjeet Nambudari, the chairperson of FPM at IIM Indore. He highlighted the growing popularity of the conference during last 5 years. He also informed that there is a plan to hold the conference at an international destination in the future
Prof Ganesh Kumar N of IIM Indore gave away the awards for best three papers received for the conference. The award of Rs 25,000 for the best paper was bagged by the paper titled “Reduced latency, Market Quality and systemic risk of high frequency trading”by Pawan Jain, Thomas H. McInish and Pankaj Jain of University of Mphasis, USA.
The second prize of Rs 15,000 went to the paper titled “The Dynamics of Income Growth and Poverty: Evidence from Districts in India” written by Anurag Narayan Banerjee, NilanjanBanik and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay of IFMR, Chennai. T
The third prize for the best paper of Rs 10,000 went to the paper titled “The influence of quality of work life on trust: empirical insights from a SEM application” authored by Anjali Jindal, ShivaniAgarawal, DrPoojaGarg and Prof RenuRastogi of IIT Roorkee.
Earlier on the third day of the conference, the proceeding of the conference were released in the form of a special Edition of Indore Management Journal, a publication of IIM Indore during the keynote address by Dr N Ravichandran, Director IIM Indore
The function ended with a vote of thanks by Rajesh Sharma, Coordinator of CERE-2013.