Organised by Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS)
https://www.pku.org.uk/iyfs/
 
Submissions are now open for the 7th International Young Finance Scholars’ (IYFS) Conference. Having cancelled the 2020 conference, this year it will be entirely virtual and as such become truly international.
 
The Young Finance Scholar’s (YFS) conferences began in 2014 and being hosted by the University of Sussex most young scholars were PhD students in the UK and Europe. This year, with our international focus, the event is hosted by Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) which has campuses in Oxford, UK and Shenzhen, China.
 
The conference has a long tradition of helping young scholars develop the skills they need to publish academic papers and seek employment in the dynamic and challenging environment of financial markets and finance education. By contrast with previous conference, there is no special theme for this year’s event. We welcome submissions from all area of finance including asset pricing, banking, behavioral finance, blockchains, corporate finance, crypto asset markets, decentralized finance, derivatives, entrepreneurial finance, financial econometrics, fintech, fund management, green finance (ESG), insurance, investment management, machine learning applications, market microstructure, mathematical finance, pricing and hedging, quantitative finance, risk management and trading, and macro-finance.
 
The virtual format creates many opportunities for a larger and more international Programme Committee that responds in detail to presentations made by PhD students and non-tenured faculty. Keeping to European time zones allows participants in Asia to join for the morning and those in the Americas to join for the afternoon. The virtual format this year creates the opportunity to network with young scholars from all over the world in breakout rooms dedicated to particular topics, led by senior international academics in that field, held around the time of UTC Midday.
 
Who should attend?
This forum is exclusively for early career researchers, i.e., PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty without tenure. It provides an opportunity for you to present, discuss and debate your research, network with peers and receive comments and advice from leading researchers including editors of some key finance journals.
 
At least one author, and the intended presenter of the paper, should be an early career researcher. Papers may be co-authored with senior academics, but presentations at the conference may only be from the early career researcher. 
 
Fees
The conference is free for those wishing to attend but not present, or to present a poster, but order to schedule the programme effectively we must charge a non-refundable fee of 25 GBP (early bird) or 35 GBP (after 20 June) prior to the event.
 
Key dates
• Submissions open – Now
• Registration opens – 31 March 2021
• Deadline for submissions – 31 May 2021
• Authors notified of acceptance – 10 June 2021
• Early-bird fee registration closes – 20 June 2021
• Registration and fee payment for paper presentations closes – 2 July 2021
• Registration for attending only and poster presentations closes – 10 July 2021
 
 
 
Submission instructions
Submissions are in a single pdf uploaded here. For a scheduled presentation, we ask for a full paper that has not been accepted for publication or a draft version of an incomplete paper. These should start with a title page containing details of all authors [Name, Position, Department and University, email] and an abstract of no more than 150 words. For poster submissions we require only one page, with the presenter's details followed by the title of the poster and an extended abstract of 250 to 500 words. Paper submissions that are not accepted for presentation in the parallel streams may possibly be offered poster presentations instead. Conference papers will not be published in any proceedings and are eligible for submission to an academic journal.
 
Awards
A total of 1500 GBP will be awarded to the best overall paper (500 GBP), and four runner up papers (250 GBP each). Certificates will be awarded for these best papers and for runners up in each category.
 
Questions
For any other questions about the conference, please email Jacqueline O’Brien with title IYFS at phbsuk@pku.org.uk and a member of the organising committee will get back to you.
 
Professor Carol Alexander, Conference Chair