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. PEF MENDELU

Authors are invited to submit a full paper written in English. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the scientific board. The authors presenting their papers at the conference will benefit from the feedback of a senior researcher.

Conference topics and sessions:
* Economic Policy
* Bussines Economics
* Quantitative Methods
* Computer Science and Information Systems

Conference Outputs
Abstracts of all papers fulfilling requirements of standard scientific papers will be published in the Book of Abstracts.

Selected and presented papers will be published in MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics (indexed in RePEc).

The best selected papers will be submitted for publishing to the following journals:
* Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ISSN 1211-8516, indexed in Scopus The papers must be presented at the conference.
* European Journal of Business Science and Technology ISSN 2336-6494, indexed in EconLit and RePEc

Important Dates
* Registration opening – September 1, 2016
* Registration deadline - October 31, 2016
* Paper submission deadline - October 31, 2016
* Conference fee payment – November 4, 2016
* Conference - November 24, 2016