Special Issue for the 6^th International Conference on Applied Financial Economics, Samos, Greece, 2-4 July 2009

The idea behind this issue was to publish the full papers of selected works presented in the 6th International Applied Financial Economics (AFE) Conference, which took place at the premises of the Research and Training Institute of East Aegean (INEAG) in Samos Island, Greece, 2-4 July 2009. Despite their short history, the AFE Conferences, co-organized by INEAG, the Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, the University of Athens and other Academic Institutions, have already gained worldwide reputation and have been established as a forum in which academics, researchers and professional experts in the field of finance from all over the world come together, interact, exchange ideas and present their research.