CUHK Business School Co-hosts the ABFER, CEPR and CUHK First Annual Symposium on Financial Economics
The ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research), CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and CUHK (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) First Annual Symposium on Financial Economics took place on 2-3 May 2019 in Hong Kong. It was co-hosted by Department of Finance of CUHK Business School and Imperial College Business School’s Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis.
The symposium comprised four discussion sessions per day. The sessions focused on corporate finance, banks and credit, bond pricing, trading and investor attention, finance, climate and wealth distribution, asset pricing and fintech. Chaired by a senior faculty member, each session invited one to three faculty members and one discussant to lead the interflow of ideas.
(From left) Prof. Joseph Cheng, Chairman and Associate Professor of Department of Finance at CUHK Business School; Prof. Kalok Chan, Dean of CUHK Business School and Wei Lun Professor of Finance at CUHK; and Prof. Franklin Allen, Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London
On the second day, in addition to the discussion sessions, Wei Xiong, Trumbull-Adams Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, and Academic Dean of the School of Management and Economics and Dean of the Shenzhen Finance Institute at CUHK-Shenzhen, was invited to deliver a keynote speech on “A Dynamic Model of Cryptocurrencies”.
Prof. Sudipto Dasgupta from CUHK Business School’s Department of Finance exchanges thoughts with the participants.
The two-day symposium gathered 70 faculty members from renowned universities worldwide – including Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Singapore, UK and US – to share their insights with the participants.
Sudipto Dasgupta, Professor of Department of Finance at CUHK Business School shared: “The conference was a great success. We received over 300 submissions, and the acceptance rate was 7 percent – so the quality of the papers presented was very high. The discussants, a majority of whom were CUHK junior faculty members, did an excellent job. Both ABFER and CEPR are highly reputable institutions and it is good for CUHK Business School to work together with them. From the attention the conference has received, we expect it to grow rapidly in the future and potentially develop into a major annual conference.”