CALL FOR PAPERS

2023 Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference,  June 24-25, 2023

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China

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The Chinese Economists Society (CES) calls for papers for the 2023 Annual Conference, to be held in Wuhan , China, June 24-25 (Saturday - Sunday), 2023. The local host for the conference is the School of Business Administration at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law University (ZUEL). 

The conference welcomes submissions in all fields of economics. The conference includes invited keynote speeches, invited speakers sessions and panels, and parallel sessions. We are also planning for Pre-Conference events which will be conducted in Chinese and are more geared toward policy.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

	Joshua Angrist, 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences. Ford Professor of Economics at MIT.
	Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University.
	Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences. Professor at Harvard University of Economics and Mathematics. Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
	Al Roth, 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences. Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University.

Confirmed invited speakers include:

	Alessandro Acquisti, Trustees Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy and Director of the PeeX (Privacy Economics Experiments) lab, Carnegie Mellon University. IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Innovation, 2018. Andrew Carnegie Fellow (inaugural class).
	Luis Aguiar, Assistant Professor at University of Zurich. Co-editor-in-chief for Information Economics and Policy. Former Research Fellow in the Digital Economy Unit at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center.
	Hanming Fang, 17th Kenneth Arrow Winner, The Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Research Associate of NBER.
	Jin Feng, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Fudan University.
	Biliang Hu, Professor of Economics at Beijing Normal University, Dean of the School of Economics and Resource Management, and President of Emerging Markets Institute.
	Jikun Huang, Professor and Honorary Director, China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University. President, Asian Society of Agricultural Economists. Co-editor of China Agricultural Economic Review. Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) (2016).
	Shi Li, Distinguished University Professor of Arts, and Dean of Institute for Common Prosperity and Development, Zhejiang University. Winner of "China Economic Theory Innovation Award" (2017) and "Sun Yefang Economics Award" (1994, 2010 and 2017).
	Ginger Jin, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Managing Editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization, Associate Editor of Rand Journal of Economics and Co-Editor of Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Research Associate of NBER.
	Kathleen McGarry, Professor of Economics, UCLA. Research Associate of NBER. National Senator for Phi Beta Kappa. Previously served on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Loneliness and Isolation Among the Elderly, and National Health and Aging Trends Study, Scientific Advisory Panel.
	Scott Rozelle, HELEN C. Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
	Guofu Tan, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California.
	Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University and Research Associate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. 2021 Thinkers 50 Digital Thinking Award Winner, 2020 INFORMS Practical Impact Award Winner.
	Guanghua Wan, Director of the Institute of World Economy at Fudan University, Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank.
	Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Professor of Finance and Economics (Business School and SIPA), Columbia University. Research Associate of NBER. Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe). Advisor, Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. Non-resident Fellow, Brookings Institution.
	Wei Xiong, John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Research Associate of NBER.  Academic Dean, CUHK Shenzhen School of Management and Economics. Overseas Advisor, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
	Yaohui Zhao, Boya Chair Professor of Economics at National School of Development, Peking University. Principal investigator of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).

 

VIRTUAL PANELS/SESSIONS

We are organizing a set of virtual panels for the mornings and evenings of June 21-22 China. Mornings will start with virtual panels (all in English), followed by parallel virtual sessions (all in English). Evenings will start with virtual panels (mixture of Chinese and English), followed by parallel virtual sessions (mixture of Chinese and English).

The follow morning virtual panels (in English) have been confirmed:

Industrial Organization/Micro: Yongmin Chen (Colorado), Kathryn Spier (Harvard), Curtis Taylor (Duke), Jidong Zhou (Yale); Moderator: Jianpei Li (UIBE) 

Macro/Finance: Kaiji Chen (Emory), Zhiguo He (Chicago), Ernest Liu (Princeton), Ping Wang (WashU); Moderator: Jun Nie (Wuhan)

US-China Trade Policy: Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale SOM), Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Amit Khandelwal (Yale), Daniel Xu (Duke); Moderator: Xuefeng Qian (ZUEL)        

The follow evening virtual panels (mixture of Chinese and English) have been confirmed:

Ag & Envrionment: Xiangming Fang (China Agricultural U), Binlei Gong (Zhejiang), Xiaoyun Li (Huazhong Agricultural U), Junjie Zhang (Kunshan Duke); Moderator: Shijun Ding (ZUEL)

Marketing: Xianzheng Fei (ZUEL), Qingyun Jiang (Fudan), Qi Sun (SHUFE), Jing Xu (PKU); Moderator: Tony Haitao Cui (Minnesota)

Micro: Xin Feng (Nanjing), Sanxi Li (Renming), Neil Yu (Nanjing Audit), Junjie Zhou (Tsinghua); Moderator: Ju Hu (PKU)

Trade: Mi Dai (Beijing Normal U), Haichao Fan (Fudan), Hong Ma (Tsinghua), Wei Tian (PKU); Moderator: Shu Lin (CUHK)

PAPER (or ABSTRACT) SUBMISSIONS

The CES invites both members and non-members to submit papers and/or to propose organized sessions at the 2023 CES Annual Conference. All fields of specialization within Economics will be considered, and presentations can be virtual or in-person. We also plan to have a few sessions for papers written in Chinese (欢迎优秀中文文章投稿). Preferences will be given to organized sessions, and to papers covering topics of particular importance to economic researchers in China.

To submit, please click this link (or use the URL https://www.china-ces.org/Conferences/ConferenceDefault.aspx?ID=3054), and follow the instructions there to enter the paper title, author name(s), JEL code(s), keywords and abstract of the paper and to upload a PDF file of your paper. For “Paper Title”, if your paper is in English, then only report the English title. Otherwise report only Chinese title. Please also indicate explicitly whether your paper is for online or offline presentation in the field of “Note:”.

Submissions without a complete paper will be considered, but preferences will be given to those with complete papers. Deadline for submission is March 15, 2023. We expect to send out notification of decision around April 10, 2023.

ORGANIZED SESSIONS

If you would like to organize one or more sessions on a specific topic and have presenters/discussants lined up, please submit your proposal to Jia YUAN (jiayuan@um.edu.mo) and Qihong LIU (qliu@ou.edu), by March 8. Each organized session should consist of 4 individual papers. The proposal should contain a tentative name of the session, titles of papers along with their abstracts, as well as names of session presenters and discussants with their emails. Please note that papers included in an organized session must still go through the regular paper submission process through the CES website, with the same deadline. It is the organizer’s responsibility to ensure all papers are submitted properly.

IMPORTANT DATES

BEST PAPER AWARDS

We will select an outstanding paper presented at the 2023 CES Annual conference by a junior scholar for the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award. To be eligible for consideration for this prestigious award, the corresponding author of the paper must be a junior scholar who received his/her PhD within the last five years (no earlier than May 2018) and has an active CES membership. The award winner will receive a certificate and a US $1,000 prize.

We will also select two outstanding papers presented at the 2023 CES Annual conference by graduate students for the CES Best Student Paper Award. To be eligible for consideration for this prestigious award, the corresponding author of the paper must be a graduate student who is currently enrolled in a master or Ph.D. program and has an active CES membership. The award winner will receive a certificate and a US $500 prize.

No application for these awards is needed since all eligible papers are automatically considered as long as a complete paper (in pdf file) is included in the submission.

PUBLICATIONS

The CES will organize two special issues at China Economic Review and China Economic Journal respectively. We are also reaching out to other journals including Digital Economy and Sustainable Development for additional publication opportunities with a streamlined process. Preferences will be given to papers presented at the CES Annual Conference and the CES North American Conference, but all submissions are welcomed. We expect the submission portals to open shortly after the North American Conference, and will close sometime after the Annual Conference.

Papers submitted for consideration of the special issues still need to go through the regular review process. Details about these publication opportunities will be provided later through CES “Call for Submissions” announcements. We will accept submissions of papers written in Chinese (接受中文投稿), with the understanding that if the paper in Chinese is tentatively accepted, there is an additional step and approval of translation before the paper in English can be formally accepted. We hope this will encourage submissions of high-quality papers in Chinese on topics that are important for the Chinese economy.

REGISTRATION

All presenters and conference attendees must register for the Conference. Registration should be made online through the conference page at www.china-ces.org under “Conferences”. Please note that registration fees are non-refundable. ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER BY May 3, 2023 TO BE INCLUDED INTO THE FINAL PROGRAM.

You can join the CES and become a member here: http://www.china-ces.org/AboutCES/Default.aspx?title=Join%20CES. Regular membership is $40 per year while student membership is $15 per year. 

Registration Fee Schedule for On Site Presentations

Registration Fee Schedule for Online Presentations

LODGING AND SHUTTLE INFORMATION

For conference hotel information, please visit the 2023 CES annual conference website, then select “Lodging” from top left. 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Inquiries can be sent to Prof. Qihong LIU at qliu@ou.edu for general matters and Prof. Jia YUAN at jiayuan@um.edu.mo for academic matters.