CALL FOR PAPERS
2025 CHINA FINANCIAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
July 5-6, 2025
To promote China-related financial research globally, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance and Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research co-organize the Annual China Financial Research Conference (CFRC). CFRC provides a high-quality academic exchange platform, where finance scholars and practitioners worldwide can share their in-depth research on important finance issues in China and exchange ideas on new developments in finance research, with the ultimate goal of reforming China’s financial system and encouraging financial innovations in China.
The 2025 China Financial Research Conference (CFRC 2025) will be held from July 5 to July 6, 2025 in Beijing, China.
TOPICS
Academic papers studying China related topics, from all areas of finance, are welcome. The conference follows the format of international research conferences. We have both English and Chinese sessions.
ORGANIZERS
Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance
Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research
BEST PAPER AWARDS
Asset Pricing Best Paper Award (US$2000 each)
Corporate Finance Best Paper Award (US$2000 each)
Behavioral Finance Best Paper Award (US$2000 each)
China Financial Research Network (CFRN) Young Scholar Best Paper Award in Chinese (US$1000 each)
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit completed papers in electronic format (PDF files only) at http://editorialexpress.com/conference/CFRC2025/. Authors have the option to upload papers to the China Financial Research Network (CFRN) for public dissemination.
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2025
Papers will be selected by the Program Committee consisting of a panel of international scholars. The submitting authors are expected to be notified of the Program Committee’s decision by the end of April 2025.
For each accepted paper, the conference will cover up to 3 days of accommodation for one author and the discussant. The same applies to all session chairs.
For further queries, please contact cfrc@pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://cfrc.pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn
| CONFERENCE CHAIR | |
| Xiaoling Wu | Former Vice-President, the People's Bank of China |
| CONFERENCE SECRETARY GENERAL | |
| Li Liao | Chair Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| Jie Jiao | Dean and Chair Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| PROGRAM CHAIRS | |
| Xuan Tian | Associate Dean and Chair Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| Xiaoyan Zhang | Associate Dean and Chair Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| ASSOCIATE PROGRAM CHAIRS (ROTATING) | |
| Li An | Associate Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| Zhan Shi | Associate Professor, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance |
| PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS | |
| Hengjie Ai | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Jinhui Bai | Washington State University |
| Turan G. Bali | Georgetown University |
| Brad M. Barber | University of California, Davis |
| Jan Bena | University of British Columbia |
| Charles Cao | Pennsylvania State University |
| Huafeng Chen | Fudan University |
| Zhuo Chen | Tsinghua University |
| Ing-Haw Cheng | University of Toronto |
| Jaewon Choi | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Yongqiang Chu | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Amil Dasgupta | The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Jens Dick-Nielsen | Copenhagen Business School |
| Winston Wei Dou | University of Pennsylvania |
| Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos | Boston College |
| Hao Gao | Tsinghua University |
| Pengjie Gao | University of Notre Dame |
| Haoyu Gao | Renmin University of China |
| Bing Han | University of Toronto |
| Jie (Jack) He | University of Georgia |
| Ping He | Tsinghua University |
| Robert J. Hodrick | Columbia University |
| Grace Xing Hu | Tsinghua University |
| Jing Huang | Texas A&M University |
| Zhengyang Jiang | Northwestern University |
| Lawrence J. Jin | Cornell University |
| Jiandong Ju | Tsinghua University |
| Zhisheng Li | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics |
| Bibo Liu | Tsinghua University |
| Clark Liu | Tsinghua University |
| Laura Xiaolei Liu | Peking University |
| Tong Liu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Xing Liu | Tsinghua University |
| Yu-Jane Liu | Peking University |
| Roger K. Loh | Nanyang Technological University |
| Dong Lou | The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Christian T. Lundblad | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Massimo Massa | INSEAD |
| William L. Megginson | The University of Oklahoma |
| David Tat-Chee Ng | Cornell University |
| Boris Nikolov | University of Lausanne |
| Yuchao Peng | Central University of Finance and Economics |
| Veronika Krepely Pool | Vanderbilt University |
| Wenlan Qian | National University of Singapore |
| Hongxun Ruan | Peking University |
| Gideon Saar | Cornell University |
| Ivan Shaliastovich | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Mila Getmansky Sherman | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Kang Shi | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Stephan Siegel | University of Washington |
| Yang Song | University of Washington |
| Qian Sun | Fudan University |
| Hao Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Jian Wang | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| Zhengwei Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Tianyu Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Haotian Xiang | Peking University |
| Kairong Xiao | Columbia University |
| Dacheng Xiu | The University of Chicago |
| Chenzi Xu | Stanford University |
| Guo Xu | University of California, Berkeley |
| Jiajie Xu | The University of Iowa |
| Hongjun Yan | DePaul University |
| Liyan Yang | University of Toronto |
| Baozhong Yang | Georgia State University |
| Ming Yang | University College London |
| Xuewei Yang | Nanjing University |
| Hanyi (Livia) Yi | Boston College |
| Jianfeng Yu | Tsinghua University |
| Xiaoyun Yu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Yue Yuan | University College London |
| Fudong Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Hong Zhang | Singapore Management University |
| Ji Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Weiqiang Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Xueyong Zhang | Central University of Finance and Economics |
| Lu Zhang | The Ohio State University |
| Yu Zhang | Peking University |
| Zhen Zhou | Tsinghua University |
| Hao Zhou | Tsinghua University; Southern University of Science and Technology |