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2021 CES Annual Conference (Virtual)
Time:2021-06-19-----2021-06-20
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Dear CES Friends,
 
We have extended the deadline to submit paper abstracts to our annual conference to Apr. 19th. Please see below for the call for papers announcement. Note that you can still propose organized sessions until Apr. 15th.

CALL FOR PAPERS

 The Chinese Economists Society 2021 Annual Conference

 June 19-20, 2021


The Chinese Economists Society (CES) calls for paper submissions for its 2021 Annual Conference, jointly hosted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, to be held online June 19-20 (Saturday and Sunday Beijing Time), 2021. The theme of this conference is “Public Policy and Economic Behavior: China and the World amidst a Global Pandemic”, but we welcome submissions in all fields in economics.

 

The conference will include invited keynote speakers, roundtable forums, parallel sessions, and professional development and training sessions.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

CES invites both members and non-members to submit papers and/or to propose organized sessions at the 2021 Annual Conference. All fields of specialization in economics will be considered. The abstract submission deadline is April 19, 2021.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Dr. Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at CalTech; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair;  T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Director. 

Dr. Yan Chen,
Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information, the University of Michigan; 2019 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Winner.  

Dr. David Cutler,
the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Dr. Matthew O. Jackson
, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Winner of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, Toulouse School of Economics 2020; President of the Game Theory Society, 2020-2022.

D
r. Gordon Guoen Liu, Peking University BOYA Distinguished Professor of Economics; Dean of PKU Institute for Global Health and Development; President (2005-2006) of the Chinese Economists Society; Associate Editor, Health Economics.


Dr. Emi Nakamura
, Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Co-editor, American Economic Review; 2019 John Bates Clark Medal Winner; 2014 Elaine Bennett Research Prize.

Dr. Dan Silverman
, Rondthaler Family Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University; Co-editor of American Economic Journal – Economic Policy
                                                                                                         

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTERS

If you would like to present at the conference, please submit an abstract of no more than 400 words with a title, author name(s), JEL code(s), and keywords via the CES website at https://www.china-ces.org/Conferences/ConferenceDefault.aspx?ID=2052. You will be notified by e-mail by April 26, 2021, as to whether your paper has been accepted for presentation.

 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS

If you would like to organize one or more sessions on a specific topic and have speakers/presenters lined up, please submit your proposal to Professor Li QI, CES President, for approval at lqi@agnesscott.edu by April 1, 2021. Each organized session should consist of 4 individual papers. 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 e-mails. Please note that papers included in a session must still go through the regular paper submission process through the CES website to be included into the program. It is the organizer’s responsibility to ensure all papers are submitted properly. The submission deadline of individual papers in proposed organized sessions is April 9, 2021.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Date

 

April 1, 2021

Organized session proposal submission deadline (submit proposals to

lqi@agnesscott.edu)

April 19, 2021

Abstract submission deadline for both individual presenters and presenters of proposed organized sessions

April 26, 2021

Notification of decision

May 1, 2021

Early Registration ends

June 1, 2021

Registration deadline to be included in the conference program

  

GREGORY CHOW BEST PAPER AWARD

We will select an outstanding paper presented at the 2021 CES Annual conference by a junior scholar for the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award. To be eligible for consideration for this prestigious award, the primary author of the paper must be a junior scholar who received his/her PhD within the last five years (no earlier than May 2016) and has an active CES membership. The   award winner will receive a certificate and a US $1,000 prize.

If you would like to be considered for this award, please send your full paper to Dr. Huan XIE, Chair of the Award Selection Committee, at 
huan.xie@concordia.ca, by May 15, 2021. Applicants must provide information confirming eligibility at the time of submission. Graduate students’ submissions should be followed up by a letter on official university stationary from a faculty certifying that the submitter is a graduate student in good standing.


CES BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

We will select two outstanding papers presented at the 2021 CES Annual conference by graduate students for the CES Best Student Paper Award. To be eligible for consideration for this prestigious award, the primary 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.

If you would like to be considered for this award, please send your full paper to Dr. Yang JIAO at yjiao@yhc.edu and Dr. Lijia Wei at ljwei@whu.edu.cn,Co-Chairs of the Award Selection Committee, by May 15, 2021. Applicants must provide information confirming eligibility at the time of submission. Graduate students’ submissions should be followed by a letter on official university stationary from a faculty certifying that the submitter is a graduate student in good standing.

GREGORY CHOW TEACHING AWARD

Winners of the Gregory and Paula Chow Foundation Teaching Award will also be announced at the CES Annual Conference.

 

PUBLICATIONS

The CES plans to select a group of high-quality papers presented at the conference for a special issue with the journals China Economic Review and China Economic Journal. Papers submitted for consideration of the special issues still need to go through regular review process of both of these journals. Details about these publication opportunities will be provided later through a CES “Call for Submissions” announcement.

 

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”. You may wait to register until you find out whether your paper is accepted. Please note that registration fees are non-refundable. ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST REGISTER BY JUNE 1, 2021 TO BE INCLUDED INTO THE FINAL PROGRAM.

You can join the CES and become a member here. Regular membership is $40 per year, and student membership is $15 per year.

 

REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE

 

 

Before or on May 1st, 2021

After May 1st, 2021

Regular CES member

US $50

US $80

Non-CES member

US $100

US $150

Student CES member

US $20

US $40

Student Non-CES member

US $70

US $100

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

For academic matters: Dr. Li QI at lqi@agnesscott.edu

For general inquiries: Dr. Jie WEI at weijie@hust.edu.cn