Call for Papers
To promote the development of the discipline of economics and keep up with academic frontiers both domestically and internationally, the School of Economics at Nanjing University is planning to host the Second International Symposium on the Frontiers of Economics. The conference aims to provide a high-level workshop-style platform for researchers in the field of economics to exchange ideas and enhance the discipline of economics in China. We are currently inviting high-quality working papers from teachers and doctoral students (postdoctoral fellows) engaged in economics research and teaching throughout the country. Our aim is to provide a pure academic exchange environment for all attendees. The objectives of the symposium include:
(1) exchanging ideas and engaging in academic discussions on submitted papers, creating opportunities for possible collaboration among participants in cutting-edge directions;
(2) exposing participants to cutting-edge research and benefiting from research questions, ideas, and arguments; and
(3) enabling participants to gain different or potentially new concepts, methods, tools, and experiences.
1. Frontiers in Theoretical Economics
Conference theme
Topics in Micro Theory and Macro Theory, including but not limited to: (1) information economics, network economics, market design, auction theory, competition theory and game theory. (2) monetary theory and monetary policy, macro policy and bank credit, finance and debt in macroeconomics, macro policy and corporate/household behavior.
We highly welcome papers about microeconomic or macroeconomic analysis of Chinese economy and digital economy, especially in the background of high-quality economic development.
Conference Dates
Deadline for submission: May 15, 2023;
Paper presenters must register by June 3, 2023;
Registration: June 10, 2023;
Meeting: June 11, 2023.
Paper Submission
This conference is planned to select less than 20 working papers. Each presentation is 50 minutes (including discussion). The list of selected papers and the detailed conference schedule will be announced before May 25, 2023. Please mark the subject of the submission email " Frontiers of Theory + Author + Institution".
Email: theoryecon_nju@163.com ;
Contact: Wang Juan, +86-25-83621156.
Meeting Chairs
Ning Sun, Chunlei Yang, Ning Yu, Nanjing Audit University;
Zhang Yongjing, University of Ottawa;
Han Gao, University of New South Wales;
Jiancai Pi, Xin Feng, Yue Feng, Jianyu Xu, Yunfeng Lu, Ge Jiang, Ninghua Sun, Pengfei Jia, Haopeng Shen, Jian Li, Nanjing University.
2.Frontiers in the Economics of Industry, Cities and Innovation
Conference theme
Special topics for all aspects of industrial economics, including but not limited to: (1) theory and empirical evidence related to industrial organization; (2) industrial chain competition; (3) platforms and anti-monopoly policies; (4) Digital economy and network economy; (5) Advanced industrial foundation, industrial chain modernization and industrial upgrading; (6) Industrial supervision and industrial policy.
Special topics in all aspects of urban economics, including but not limited to: (1) theories and empirical evidence related to urban economics; (2) land control and urban housing markets; (3) urban spatial structure and urban development; (4) city size and urban system; (5) migrant population and urbanization; (6) Urban industry and agglomeration economy.
Topics include but are not limited to: innovation-driven economic growth and development theory and empirical evidence, innovation-driven industrial and enterprise organizational change theory and empirical evidence, new national system research on innovation development, global and domestic innovation network and innovation chain, science and technology and innovation resource allocation, innovation resource agglomeration and innovation cluster, national and regional technology innovation system, scientific and technological talent flow and allocation, etc.
Conference Dates
Deadline for submission: May 27, 2023;
Paper presenters must register by May 20, 2023;
Registration: June 17, 2023
Meeting: June 18, 2023
Paper Submission
This conference is planned to select less than 20 working papers. Each presentation is 50 minutes (including discussion).The list of selected papers and the specific conference schedule will be announced by June 7, 2023. The title of the submitted email is marked with the words "Industrial City Innovation Frontier + Author + School".
Email: CREC_nju@163.com
Contact: Jie Hui, +86-25-83621156.
Meeting Chairs
Fuxiang Wu, Shouhua Wei, Yu Wang, Lijun Pan, Yang Yang, Wei Duan, Department of Industrial Economics, Nanjing University
3. Frontiers of International Economics
Conference theme
Topics on the world economy and international trade, including but not limited to: frontier theories and methods of international economics, research on the new development pattern of China's dual circulation, research on the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road", research on global value chain, research on digital trade, research on China's free trade zone, research on China's participation in the global economic governance system, etc.
Conference Dates
Deadline for submission: May 10, 2023;
Paper presenters must register by May 26, 2023;
Registration: June 2, 2023;
Meeting: June 3, 2023.
Paper Submission
This conference is planned to select less than 20 working papers. Each presentation is 50 minutes (including discussion). The list of selected papers and the conference schedule will be announced before May 20, 2023. The subject of the submitted email is marked with the words "International Economics Frontier + Author + School".
Email: trade_nju@163.com
Contact: Qianqian Ni, +86-25-83594520.
Meeting Chairs
Jianguo Xie, Jian Han, Yuchen Shao, Ning Meng, Xiaocong Xu, Xing Wei, and Weidi Yuan, Department of International Economics and Trade, Nanjing University
4. Frontiers of Financial Economics
Conference theme
Topics in Financial Economics include but are not limited to: International Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Financial Engineering, Insurance and Risk Management, Digital Finance and Fintech. It focuses on: (1) New areas of asset pricing with a particular focus on macrofinance, computing finance, and climate finance. Possible topics include investor heterogeneity, learning and ambiguity, new preference structures for pricing models, the use of machine learning to understand cross-sections of returns, climate change and climate change policies that can affect asset pricing markets. (2) green technology innovation in corporate finance, pricing of climate risk in financial markets, bank exposure to climate risk and their regulation, the impact of monetary policy on climate change, and broader financial policies that contribute to climate change mitigation , and (3) recent developments in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, including but not limited to regulatory interactions between financial intermediaries, or households and policymakers in various countries.
Conference Dates
Deadline for submission: May 20, 2023;
Paper presenters must register by June 10, 2023;
Registration: June 16, 2023;
Meeting: June 17, 2023.
Paper Submission
This conference is planned to select less than 20 working papers. Each presentation is 50 minutes (including discussion). The list of selected papers and the specific conference schedule will be announced before June 1,2023. The subject of the email containing your submitted paper should be marked with the words "Financial Frontier + Author + School".
Email: finance_nju2022@163.com
Contact: Nan Yu, +86-25-83593881.
Meeting Chairs
Xianming Fang, Nian Yang, Desu Liu, Yu Jiang, Rui Huang, Di He, Yuanyuan Chen, Qinyuan Chen, Yanyi Wang, Department of Finance and Insurance, Nanjing University
5. Frontiers of Economics of Environment and Health
Conference theme
Topics in the field of environmental and health economics include, but are not limited to: environment and health; medical reform, medical expenditure; access to medical services and health; access to health services and health inequalities; elderly health, elderly care and elderly economic support. Among them, it focuses on: (1) Feasible environmental and energy policies: environmental and energy (E&E) policy decisions made by governments and enterprises, and how policies can be more efficient and equitable. We welcome papers examining topics such as quantitative assessment of past or potential future environmental and energy policy changes, how to improve the public appeal of cost-effective environmental and energy policies, evaluation of voluntary corporate actions such as net-zero commitments and ESG investment screening, and empirical evaluations of utility programs such as energy efficiency, load management, and pricing reform. (2) Innovation and policy challenges to address climate change: broader policies that contribute to climate change mitigation.
Conference Dates
Deadline for submission: June 10, 2023;
Paper presenters must register by June 24, 2023;
Registration: June 30, 2023;
Meeting: July 1, 2023.
Paper Submission
This conference is planned to select less than 20 working papers. Each presentation is 50 minutes (including discussion). The list of selected papers and conference schedule will be announced by June 20, 2023. The subject line of the submitted email is marked with the words "Frontiers of Environmental Health + Author + School".
Email: LHP2022_NJU@163.com
Contact: Jie Hui, +86-25-83621156
Meeting Chairs
Qiang Geng, Lingguo Cheng, Zhaopeng Qu, Gang Jin, Institute of Population Research, Nanjing University, Maoliang Bu, Mingying Zhu, Department of Industrial Economics, Nanjing University
Conference Organization
Conference Hosts
School of Economics, Nanjing University
Special guests
Zhiqi Chen
Chancellor's Professor and Full Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, since 2002, Served as a Co-editor of Journal of Economics and Management Strategy since 2004.Served as the Managing Editor of Canadian Journal of Economics since 2022.
https://carleton.ca/economics/people/chen-zhiqi/
Yongming Chen
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005-. , Associate Editor, RAND Journal of Economics, 2012-. Fields: Industrial Organization • Microeconomics. Current Research Interests: Vertical organization, price discrimination under imperfect competition, product differentiation, markets with search/switching costs, economics of innovation, international trade and organization.
https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/chen-yongmin
Ning Sun
Dean of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nanjing Audit University, Ph.D. in Economics, Professor and Distinguished Professor. Main research areas: microeconomic theory; Auction mechanism design; market mechanism design; Game theory
https://iser.nau.edu.cn/2016/1104/c2341a18164/page.htm
Chunlei Yang
Dean of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nanjing Audit University, Zelten Economics Laboratory, Academic Honors: 2016 Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education.
Lu Han
Lu Han is the Nathan F. Brand Chair Professor in Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Han was a Professor and the Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She currently serves as an Editor for Real Estate Economics and on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.Professor Han’s research interests are at the interface of urban economics, market microstructure, industrial organization and real estate finance.
https://business.wisc.edu/directory/profile/lu-han/
Panle Jia Barwick
The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization, Chinese Economy, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics with a strong interest in environmental economics. She co-founded and currently serves as a board member of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER). She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), editor for the Journal of Industrial Economics, associate editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Economics and VoxChina.
https://econ.wisc.edu/staff/barwick-panle/
Michael Guo
Professor in Finance and Deputy Director of Institute for China Development and Research. Professor Guo has been shortlisted by Economist Magazine for “2013 Business Professor of the Year Award” for his excellence on high-quality teaching. In 2010, Professor Guo was appointed as Deputy Director for Institute of China Development and Research, establishing and managing collaborations on behalf of the school with Chinese authorities and universities that aim to encourage the development of high-quality research collaborations as well as executive training programmes and student exchange. Professor Guo has several research interests, while his main focus is on Chinese Business and Finance, Corporate Finance, and Behavioural Finance.
Academic advisor (in alphabetical order of last name).
Zhiqi Chen(Carleton University), Yongming Chen(Universityof Colorado at Boulder), Shiyi Chen (Anhui University), Fuqian Fang (Chinese Minmin University), Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University), Qunhui Huang (Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Yinxing Hong (Nanjing University), Yongmiao Hong (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Junjie Hong (University of International Business and Economics), Jiandong Ju (Tsinghua University), Shi Li (Zhejiang University), Qi Liang (Nankai University), Yuanchun Liu (Chinese Minmin University), Xiaoning Long (Xiamen University), Zhibiao Liu (Nanjing University), Dan Shi (Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Ning Sun (Nanjing Audit University), Ruilong Yang (Chinese Minmin University), Chunlei Yang (Nanjing Audit University), Pengfei Wang(Peking University), Weixing Wu (University of International Business and Economics), Yongjing Zhang (University of Ottawa), Yaohui Zhao (Peking University), Yahong Zhou (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics).
Conference registration
There is no conference registration fee, and one paper speaker is provided with room and accommodation transportation during the conference.
Conference Location
Nanjing Nanjing University Gulou Campus Business School Anzhong Building
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