ABOUT THE FORUM
The forum aims to strengthen international educational cooperation and promote cross-cultural exchange by providing a platform for exceptional doctoral students, from home and abroad, to engage in academic and intellectual discourse. Encompassing fields such as economics, finance, business administration, data science and artificial intelligence, the forum focuses on critical issues that impact global economic development. Additionally, the forum aspires to offer new perspectives and innovative approaches to address these global economic challenges. It endeavors to help young scholars worldwide gain a deeper understanding of the Chinese economy and society while assisting domestic graduate students in broadening their global perspectives and fostering innovative thinking. Following the success of the inaugural forum in the summer of 2024, CUFE aims to build an annual academic exchange brand program and continue the International Doctoral Forum in 2025. (Further information can also be found on the CUFE's official website. Click this link for details: http://56y8.taogoods.net/info/1186/23932.htm)
IMPORTANT DATES:
1st Round Application Submission due: March 28, 2025
2nd Round Application Submission due: April 25, 2025
On Campus Check-In: July 2-3, 2025
Forum Orientation: July 3, 2025
Forum: July 4-14, 2025
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
The 2025 Forum invites Nobel Laureate Prof. Joshua Angrist from MIT to participate and deliver Nobel Laureate Speech at the forum opening ceremony.
The 2025 Forum is excited to offer prestigious courses on macro-finance topics. The course will be taught by Prof. Vincenzo Quadrini in a 2-3 day time span.
The Forum strives to provide expert-to-student mentoring opportunities. The 2025 Forum offers at least 8 half-day workshops led by world leading scholars as invited speakers. At least 3 academic papers will be presented and discussed in each workshop. The workshop is followed up by One-on-One meetings with the invited speakers (Please refer to appendix for invited speakers list).
A full-day academic conference will be held during the 2025 Forum. At least 8 exceptional doctoral student papers will be selected and presented at the conference. Two prestigious keynote speeches by world leading scholars will be delivered at the conference.
The 2025 Forum provide exclusive opportunities for doctoral students worldwide to closely interact with China star enterprises. Two corporate site visits will be organized during the forum.
Two full-day trips will be organized by the Forum committee to promote cultural exchange between China and the world. Forum doctoral students will be provided the opportunity to experience the amazing cultural and historical landscapes in China.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION:
Doctoral students with diverse academic and cultural backgrounds are invited to submit:
Curriculum Vitae
Research Papers
The forum encourages paper submissions on original work (including recently published work) in the field of economics, finance, business administration, data science and AI. The maximum paper submission capacity is two. Papers that are China related are strongly encouraged.
Copyright of the submitted work is held by the author/owner.
We welcome applicants send your application material to the following email address: hdu@taogoods.net
with the email title labeling as“Name + University Name+ 2025 International Doctoral Forum”.
Application portfolio will be carefully reviewed by the Forum Selection Committee according to the quality of research papers and overall experience and backgrounds of the applicants. Successfully selected applicants will be notified via email.
Expenses: The Forum Organizing Committee covers all expenses in forum-related logistics (meals and accommodation) for each successfully selected participant during the forum.
Notes: International travel expenses arrive-in/departure-from Beijing are not covered. If there are specific needs, participants can contact the committee, which may provide travel grants based on individual circumstances.
Insurance: Participants are responsible for purchasing relevant insurance and must provide the corresponding documentations upon registering at the forum.
Forum Awards & Grants: Best Paper Award, Best Participation Award, and Best Cultural Exchange Award will be presented to qualified doctoral students in support of academic excellence, forum active participation and cultural exchange. The award winner will be carefully selected by the Forum Organizing Committee who retains the ultimate authority of the final interpretation.
Young Envoy Scholarship (YES): CUFE 2025 International Doctoral Forum is proud to be approved as one of the Young Envoy Scholarship (YES) programs. To support the initiative and YES program, the Chinese Embassy and the Consulates-General in the US will issue five-year F visa with multiple entries to applicants with exclusive YES Invitations issued by China Educational Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) are eligible. At the same time, visa processing fees (including express service fees) will be waived. For detailed information, please refer to : http://www.youthlink.cn/.
CONTACT US
Huancheng Du
International Cooperation Division
Email:hdu@taogoods.net
Telephone: +8618641686573
Central University of Finance and Economics
No. 39 South College Road
Haidian District, Beijing 100081
P. R. China
Invited Speakers for 2024 & 2025 International Doctoral Forum
(Note: Speakers are listed by academic positions and alphabetical orders)
Joshua Angrist
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate
Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a co-founder and director of MIT's Blueprint Labs, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Angrist and his collaborators develop and study innovative ways to harness the power of natural experiments to answer important economic questions. These new econometric tools help social scientists and policy-makers discover the causal effects of individual choices and government policy changes. In dozens of empirical studies, Angrist explores the economics of education and school reform; the impact of social programs on the labor market; and the labor market effects of immigration, regulation, and economic institutions. Angrist received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2021 (with Co-Laureates Guido Imbens and David Card). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has served on many editorial boards and as a co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics.
Lin William Cong
Rudd Family Professor of Management, Cornell University
Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Professor of Management (endowed faculty chair by the Rudd Family Foundation) and a Tenured Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business. He is also the founding faculty director for the FinTech Initiative at Cornell, a faculty scientist at the Initiatives for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mr. Cong has served as a Finance Editor for the Management Science, and as associate or advisory editors for the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among other editorial roles. He is also a member of multiple professional organizations such as the American Economic Association, European Finance Association, and the Econometric Society. Mr. Cong's academic interests include financial innovation, mechanism and information design, blockchains, cryptocurrencies, digital economy, real options, financial policy and markets in China, machine learning, AI for Finance, and alternative data.
Kaiji Chen
Professor of Economics, Emory University
Kaiji Chen, Special-Term Professor of Economics at the International School of Finance, Fudan University, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at Emory University, Research Fellow at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Professor Chen's current research interests are China's Macroeconomics, Financial Aspects of Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policies. He has published about a dozen papers on top academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, NBER Macroeconomic Annual, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and Journal of Monetary Economics. In recent years, his research focuses on China's macro economy, especially its relationship with the financial sector and monetary policy. In August 2016, Professor Chen was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to further explore his research project, entitled "Quantifying the Interactions Between the Financial Sector and the Macroeconomy in China: A Structural Approach." In 2018, he got the 3rd Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award.
Jean M. Imbs
Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi
Jean Imbs is a Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi and Paris School of Economics and a Research Director at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Mr. Imbs' research focuses on international macroeconomics, with an interest in the consequences of microeconomic complexity for macroeconomic phenomena. He has published in the major professional journals in Economics, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of International Economics. Mr. Imbs consults regularly with major policy institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the Bank of England, the UK Treasury, and many other central banks around the world. He has taught among others at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York University, HEC Paris, and INSEAD.
Dong Lou
Chair Professor, Citi Professor of Business, HKUST;
Director, HKUST Institute for Financial Research ;
Associate Dean (Strategic Planning & Research), HKUST Business School;
Professor of Finance, LSE
Dong Lou is a Chair Professor of Finance and Citi Professor of Business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also the Director of the HKUST Institute for Financial Research, an Associate Dean of the HKUST Business School, and the Director of the HKUST Bilingual DBA program. Prior to joining HKUST, he was a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. Professor Lou is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, and an Academic Consultant and Visitor to the Bank of England. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholars (DYS) Scheme of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. His main research areas include asset pricing, investment management, behavioral finance, and the Chinese financial markets.
Jia Li
Dean, School of Economics;
Lee Kong Chian Professor of Economics;
Econometrics Lead, SMU Urban Institute
Jia Li is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Economics at School of Economics at Singapore Management University. His research focuses on semiparametric and nonparametric methods in time series analysis, with a special emphasis on the analysis of high frequency financial data. His work has been published in leading journals across economics, statistics, and probability, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, JASA, Annals of Statistics, and Annals of Applied Probability. He is an elected fellow of the Society of Financial Econometrics and the Journal of Econometrics, Co-Editor of Econometric Theory, and Associate Editor of Econometrica, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Econometrics.
Yong Li
Lee Professor of Entrepreneurship;
Research Director for Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Nevada
Yong Li is the Lee Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Lee Business School and Research Director of Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a Co-Editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), a leading entrepreneurship journal, and on the editorial boards of several other leading journals including AMJ, AMR, JBV, and JIBS. Yong Li conducts research at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy and international business by studying venture capital, crowdfunding, new venture innovation and international expansion. Mr. Li has published extensively in major management journals such as AMJ, JIBS, OS, and SMJ, and in major entrepreneurship journals including SEJ, JBV, and ETP. His research has been supported by the Kauffman Foundation and SSHRC Canada, recognized by AOM, SMS and IACMR, and featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur, Crowdfund Insider, and Knowledge@Wharton. He has led the SMS Doctoral Workshop and organized several PDWs at AOM on advancing theory development in entrepreneurship.
Jeffrey Parsons
University Research Professor, Memorial University
Dr. Jeffrey Parsons joined Memorial University in 1993, where he served as associate dean (research) from 2003-2007 and 2008-2012. His research interests focus on representing information in ways that better match how humans think about objects in their physical or social environment. His research has been published in journals such as Nature, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He holds research grants from NSERC and SSHRC and has served on grant committees for both funding councils. Dr. Parsons has held editorial appointments at major academic journals (including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research and Journal of the Association for Information Systems). He has served as program chair of the AMCIS, ER, WITS, and DESRIST conferences. His research interests include: Classification in Conceptual Modeling; Crowdsourcing; Information Quality; Data Management; Design Science; Recommender Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Data Repurposing; and Open Information Environments.
Michael Pinedo
Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management, NYU Stern
Michael Pinedo is the Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. From 1982 to 1997, he taught in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at Columbia University. He taught at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (Caracas) from 1978 to 1980 and at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1982. Professor Pinedo's research focuses on the modeling of production and service systems, more specifically, on the planning and scheduling of these systems. He is the author of the books Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems (Springer), and Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services (Springer), and the coauthor of Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions (Wiley). He is co-editor of Creating Value in Financial Services: Strategies, Operations, and Technologies (Kluwer), and editor of Operational Control in Asset Management - Processes and Costs (Palgrave/McMillan).
Vincenzo Quadrini
James McN. Stancill Chair in Business and Administration, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall
Vincenzo Quadrini is a Professor of Finance and Business Economics and James McN. Stancill Chair in Business Administration at the University of Southern California. He is a macroeconomist who focuses on international economics, entrepreneurship, and financial contracts. He currently serves as Co-editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and other Journals. He has been coordinating editor for the Review of Economic Dynamics and he is a faculty research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research.
Jayashankar Swaminathan
GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
Jayashankar (Jay) Swaminathan is the GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in productivity and innovation in operations related to retail, healthcare, customization, sustainability, agriculture, e-commerce and emerging markets. He has received numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, George Nicholson Prize, Schwabacher Fellowship and Weatherspoon Distinguished Research and Excellence in Teaching awards. He has been a principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative and U.S. Department of Education. He is an inducted fellow of the INFORMS, POMS and MSOM. A fellow of the Academic Leadership Program in the Institute of Arts and Humanities at UNC, Dr. Swaminathan has served UNC Kenan-Flagler in many leadership roles including senior associate dean for academic affairs, associate dean for the Global OneMBA Program and UNC-Tsinghua Dual Degree EMBA Program, director of the Global Business Center and chair of the operations area.
Dacheng Xiu
Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business;
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago;
Research Associate, NBER
Dacheng Xiu is a Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. His research interests include developing statistical methodologies and applying them to financial data, while exploring their economic implications. His current work focuses on developing machine learning solutions to big-data problems in empirical asset pricing. Mr. Xiu's work has appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Annals of Statistics. He has served as Co-Editor for the Journal of Financial Econometrics, and has been on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for many journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, and Journal of Econometrics. He has received several recognitions for his research, including Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, AQR Insight Award, and Best Conference Paper Prize from the European Finance Association. He has been recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-under-40 Business School Professors.
Guanyi Lu
Associate Professor and Dean’s Emerging Scholar, Florida State University, College of Business
Guanyi Lu is an Associate Professor and Dean's Emerging Scholar in the Department of Business Analytics, Information Systems and Supply Chain at Florida State University's College of Business. His areas of expertise are retail operations, supply chain structure and integration, supply chain risk and security, and information and communication technology. Mr. Lu's research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences among others. He serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences. His service was recognized by the 2018 Best Reviewer Award of Decision Sciences, the 2020 Best Reviewer Award of Journal of Operations Management, and the 2022 Best Associate Editor Award of Journal of Operations Management.
Yu Qin
Associate Professor of Real Estate, Department of Real Estate, NUS
Yu Qin is Dean’s Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate at the NUS Business School. Her research interests include urban economics (on topics related to transportation and real estate market) and environmental economics (on topics related to air pollution and climate change). Her research is published in leading journals, including Nature Climate Change, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Water, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, among others. Currently, she is the co-editor of the China Economic Review, associate editor of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and in the editorial board of Journal of Economic Geography. Yu completed her PhD in applied economics and management at Cornell University .
Kirill Ponomarev
Assistant Professor of Economics, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Kirill Ponomarev is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago. His main research interest lies broadly in econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Los Angeles.
Silvia Sarpietro
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
Silvia Sarpietro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and a visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University. She received Ph.D. in Economics from University College London (UCL). Her research interests are Panel Data Econometrics and Forecasting, with an applied focus on earnings and firm dynamics.
Yicheng Song
Assistant Professor of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Minnesota
Dr. Yicheng Song is an Assistant Professor in the Information & Decision Sciences Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research primarily focuses on the development of personalized recommender systems, digital consumer analytics, and charity analytics. His work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and INFORMS Journal on Computing, and he has won multiple awards for his research, including the Best Paper Award at the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology and the 2023 Runner-up Best Paper Award at CIST.
