We are excited to announce that the conference will be held in a face-to-face mode, providing a much-needed opportunity for academics, doctoral students, and practitioners to share their latest research findings, discuss current issues, and explore new directions in finance and related topics. The conference will offer an open and intimate environment for networking, collaboration, and exchange of ideas. We welcome submissions from scholars worldwide in all areas of finance, including but not limited to:
Corporate finance and governance
Asset pricing, investment, and portfolio management
Finance and sustainability
Financial markets and institutions
Financial technology
Banking and financial regulations
Behavioral finance
Risk management and quantitative finance
Household finance and financial consumer protection
Keynote Speaker
Professor Kai Li
UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Topic: Big Data and Machine Learning in ESG Research
Prof. Kai Li, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Class of 2022), holds the Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She was also Senior Associate Dean, Equity and Diversity between 2015-2021.
Prof. Li’s research focuses on the economic consequences of corporate governance mechanisms. Her current research projects explore: (1) gender, competition, and performance, (2) machine learning in finance, and (3) gender and finance. Her research has appeared in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and many other leading journals in Finance and Economics. She is the recipient of the UBC Killam Research Award, the Sauder School of Business Research Excellence Award (both junior and senior categories), and the Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award, a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a Research Fellow of the FinTech at Cornell Initiative. She is a Managing Editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She has also served on the Editorial Board of Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Financial Management. Her research has been featured in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Time Magazine, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswire, New Yorker, BBC, BNN, CBC National, CTV National News, National Post, Globe and Mail, U.S. News & World Report, Harvard Business Review, and Yahoo! Finance.
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