Call for Papers

In recent years, FinTech and Digital Finance have been rapidly developing in the fields of financial trading, inclusive finance and corporate finance. In parallel, emerging technologies, such as machine learning, textual analytics, and big data methods, are also widely used in financial economics. The development trend of FinTech technology and Digital Finance has attracted the attention and interest of many researchers. Therefore, School of Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) and Innovation and Talent Base for Digital Technology and Finance would like to organize an international conference on the broad theme of “FinTech and Digital Finance”. The objective is to promote the development of FinTech and Digital Finance and expand the impact of FinTech and Digital Finance research, so that both theory and methods of FinTech and Digital Finance can be applied to financial and economic research. 

Potential Topics

It is expected that the VSI will explore the impact of FinTech's technological innovations, and study the application of FinTech in financial economics. Papers that broadly cover (but are not limited to) these areas are welcomed. We particularly welcome research on:

1. FinTech and SME

2. Digital Inclusive Finance

3. Regulatory Issues and Challenges in FinTech

4. RegTech

5. FinTech in Asset Pricing

6. Big Data, FinTech and Regional Economics

7. Big Data, FinTech and Corporate Finance

8. The Impact of BlockChain on the Economy

9. Discussion on Digital Currency

10. Textual Analytics in Economics

The submission deadline for the second round is October 16, 2022. The committee will decide the presentation of papers by October 30, 2022. The conference is planned to be held on November 26 and 27, 2022. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic policy, we plan to hold the conference online, and if the epidemic situation improves, we will organize offline meetings for consideration.

Important participants

Host of Opening Remarks

Prof. Yuehua Tang (University of Florida)

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)

Prof. Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

Prof. Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)

Paper Selection Process

The selection process will involve two stages. In the first stage, participants are invited to submit their full completed papers to zuelfintechconference@gmail.com and xyzong@zuel.edu.cn before October 16, 2022, and the conference committee will screen and evaluate all the submissions. In the second stage, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to Economic Modelling to go through the journal’s review process. These papers will then undergo the standard review process of the journal and an editorial decision will be made following this review process. The standard submission fee applies.

Guest Editors

Minggui Yu (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)

Yang Zhao (Central University of Finance and Economics)

Organizing Committee

Yongbin Lv (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) - Co-Chair

Xianming Sun (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) - Co-Chair

Xuan Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) - Co-Chair

Scientific Committee

Sean Cao (University of Maryland)

Haiqiang Chen (Xiamen University)

Xuanjuan Chen (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Haoyu Gao (Renmin University of China)

Jia He (Nankai University)

Fuwei Jiang (Central University of Finance and Economics)

Dongming Kong (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)

Bin Li (Wuhan University)

Hening Liu (The University of Manchester)

Ronghua Luo (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

Yukun Shi (University of Glasgow)

Tianyi Wang (University of International Business and Economics)

Mingzhe Wei (Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University)

Yan Zeng (Sun Yat-sen Universiry)

Chao Zhou (National University of Singapore)

Paper Submission 

Authors are invited to submit their research papers (in English) as a single word/pdf file to be used in the refereeing process.

Paper Acceptance Email:

zuelfintechconference@gmail.com; xyzong@zuel.edu.cn

Please send your paper to both email addresses.

Organized by

College of Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Frontier Forum for Digital Technology and Finance