Each year, the Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University in Brno sponsors and coordinates the PhD Student Conference called PEFnet. The conference provides an opportunity for PhD students around the world to present their work and interact with other students and scientific investigators. The objective of the conference is to bring young researchers and PhD students to share experience and original research contributions on selected topics concerning economic studies.

The main objective of the conference is to provide students of doctoral study programmes of Czech and foreign universities with the opportunity to present results of their research activities and to get feedback and recommendations for further research from senior researchers as well as other conference participants.

Conference participants will receive a printed version of the Book of Extended Abstracts. An on-line version of the Book of Abstracts will be available on the conference website.

The official language of the conference is English.


CONFERENCE SESSION TOPICS:

• Business Finance and Economics
• Computer Science and Information Systems
• Economics and Economic Policy
• ESG: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance
• Finance
• Finance - Special Section for Master Students
• Management
• Marketing and Trade
• Quantitative Methods


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jarmila Zimmermannová - Vice-Dean for International Relations and Internationalisation, Palacký University Olomouc

Michaela Bednárová - Assistant Professor at the Pablo de Olavide University, Deparment of Accounting and Finance, Sevilla