News Express: UM holds 36th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference
新聞快訊：澳大舉辦第36屆亞洲金融學年會
澳大舉辦第36屆亞洲金融學年會
UM holds the 36th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference
澳大舉辦第36屆亞洲金融學年會
為推動金融研究前沿創新，澳門大學工商管理學院與亞洲金融學協會合辦第36屆亞洲金融學年會。為期三天的會議吸引全球各地約300名金融學者交流研究成果。
亞洲金融學年會是亞太地區規模最大、影響力最廣的學術會議之一。開幕式上，澳大副校長許敬文致辭時鼓勵金融學者積極進行學術及科研交流。閉幕式上，澳大工商管理學院院長余俊指出，是次會議為亞太地區金融學研究的發展與進步作出重大貢獻。
會議期間，美國德州大學奧斯汀分校金融學講座教授、美國全國經濟研究所研究專員Sheridan Titman和香港大學金融學講座教授、協理副校長、商學院副院長林晨兩位國際頂級學者分別作主題演講，並由澳大榮譽學院院長黎寧、工商管理學院金融及商業經濟學系主任康文津任主持人。
會議特設金融科技專題討論，多名學術界與業界專家就大數據與人工智能技術在金融研究中的應用進行了深入的討論，並由康文津主持。此外，會議共收到近800篇來自全球知名金融學者的論文，其中約200篇論文被接納，組成逾50個分組討論及博士生專場，涵蓋演算法交易、加密貨幣、ESG與綠色金融、金融科技、機器學習等前沿金融主題；同時還選出六個最佳論文獎，其中一篇獲獎論文由澳門大學金融學副教授謝靜與新加坡國立大學及華中科技大學的學者共同撰寫。
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UM holds 36th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference
To promote innovation in finance research, the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) of the University of Macau (UM) and the Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) jointly organised the 36th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference. The three-day conference brought together about 300 finance scholars from around the world to share their research findings.
The Asian Finance Association Annual Conference is one of the largest and most influential academic finance conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. At the opening ceremony, Michael Hui, vice rector of UM, encouraged finance scholars to actively engage in academic and research exchanges. At the closing ceremony, Yu Jun, dean of FBA, noted that the conference was a significant contribution to the development and advancement of finance research in the Asia-Pacific region.
The conference featured two keynote speeches, which were delivered by Sheridan Titman, McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas at Austin and research associate of the US National Bureau of Economic Research; and Lin Chen, associate vice-president of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and associate dean and chair of finance of HKU Business School, respectively. The two speeches were moderated by Lai Neng, dean of UM’s Honours College, and Kang Wenjin, head of the Department of Finance and Business Economics of FBA, respectively.
Notably, the conference included a special panel session on fintech chaired by Kang Wenjin, where academic and industry experts discussed in depth the application of big data and artificial intelligence technologies in finance research. The conference had received nearly 800 papers from renowned finance scholars around the world, of which about 200 papers were accepted to form more than 50 discussion sessions and a PhD consortium. They covered cutting-edge finance topics such as algorithmic trading, cryptocurrencies, ESG and green finance, fintech, machine learning, and more. In addition, six Best Paper Awards were presented, and one of the awarded papers was co-authored by Xie Jing, associate professor of finance at UM, and scholars from the National University of Singapore and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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