This year’s theme is “Active Investing and Arbitrage Capital, with a session on Pension Funds.”

Conference Sub-themes and Session Topics: - Strategy and Policy - Participation and Empowerment - Fiscal Policy and Finance - Green Economic Sectors

Academics, market practitioners, and government agencies (particularly central banks) are especially concerned that fluctuations in real estate markets could affect the financial stability through many channels. They include (but not limited to): - wealth effect of households; - collateral...

Programme: - Impact of Large Investors in Distressed Housing Markets - The Impact of US Monetary Policy and Other External Shocks on the Hong Kong Economy: A Factor-augmented VAR Approach - VaR and Stress Test: The Impact of Fat-Tail Risk and Systemic Risk on Capital Requirements of Financial...

Two central themes will be related to Asia and the Pacific studies and the PRC economy. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced market-oriented reforms, openness and globalization, economic regionalization, cross-border interactions, integration, etc., which underpin the first theme....

The theme of the conference is on network economics and big data. Topics include but are not limited to: Network analysis; Internet economy; Sharing economy; Big data analysis; Online finance; Cyber economic risk; Network logistics analysis.

The theme of the conference is "Sustainable Development in China and the World: Understanding the Economics of the New Normal". Submissions for paper presentation can cover all topics in economics, particularly on topics that are relevant to China.

Topics: - Asian financial development and the ‘Washington Consensus’ - Bailouts, rescues, bail-ins and living wills in the financial industry - Lobby power over making laws, rules and market structure (who controls shaping the rules?) - The law and politics of monetary policy in a global...