Department of Economics and Finance hosts annual SoFiE Conference at CityU

The Department of Economics and Finance and the Global Research Unit co-organised the 9th annual Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) Conference at CityU during 14th-17th June, 2016.

Sponsored by the Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation (孔慶熒及梁巧玲慈善基金), the four-day conference attracted over 140 local and overseas researchers from major research institutions to share their research findings. Hot issues related to the financial econometrics were addressed in the meeting.

Prof Yin-wong Cheung, Founding Director of the Global Research Unit and Hung Hing Ying Chair Professor of International Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance, together with other local organising committee members, Prof Giorgio Valente and Dr Daniel Preve, Professor and Assistant Professor from the Department of Economics and Finance respectively, and Dr Yingying Li, Associate Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, contributed tremendous effort to make the conference successful.

The keynote speakers included:

• Prof Francis X. Diebold, Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Prof René Garcia, Professor, EDHEC Business School
• Prof Harrison Hong, John Scully ’66 Professor of Economics and Finance, Princeton University
• Mr Michael McCracken, Assistant Vice-President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Prof Per Mykland, Robert M. Hutchins Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Finance, University of Chicago
• Prof Olivier Scaillet, Professor of Finance and Statistics at the Geneva Finance Research Institute of University of Geneva and  Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute
• Prof Hao Zhou, Unigroup Chair Professor and Associate Dean at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
• Mr Leong Cheung, Executive Director, Charities and Community, The Hong Kong Jockey Club

The Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) is a global network of academics and practitioners dedicated to sharing research findings and ideas in the field of financial econometrics. It is an independent non-profit organisation, committed to promoting and expanding research and education by organising and sponsoring conferences, programmes and activities relating to the topic of finance.

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