Conference Theme: “New and Important Issues in Sustainable Finance”

June 9 – June 10, 2023, Online and Onsite at Shanghai Business School (SBS), Shanghai, China

Hosted by the Research Center of Finance in the Faculty of Professional Finance and Accounting

The 2023 SBSICF provides an international forum for scholars and practitioners to present cutting-edge research and exchange ideas on issues in sustainable finance. Sustainable finance is a key cornerstone to financing activities that contribute to sustainable development, including environmental finance, green finance, and ESG (environment, social, and corporate governance) issues. Our conference is supported by International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Finance Research Letters.

TOPICS:

The theme of the 2023 SBSICF is “New and Important Issues in Sustainable Finance.” The topics may include but are not limited to:

a) Machine learning applications in sustainable finance

b) Textual analysis applications in sustainable finance

c) Greenwashing

d) Aligning central banks and international financial organizations in the context of sustainable finance

e) Climate risk measurement and mitigation

f) Management of greenhouse gas emissions

g) The political economy of sustainable finance

h) Issues in green finance

i) Topics in polluting right trading

j) Disclosure practices related to sustainable finance

k) Climate risk disclosure

l) Carbon accounting and trading

m) Environmental management accounting

n) Sustainability accounting, accountability and reporting

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

The deadline for paper submission is April 15, 2023 (early submission is highly encouraged). Please submit two PDF files: one with title page including author information (including emails) and one without title page to ythsu@sbs.edu.cn. Please use “Submission to 2023 SBSICF” as the title of your email. There is no submission fee. We only consider papers in English. Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. The authors will be notified of the review committee’s decision by May 10, 2023.

PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION:

We welcome participants from both academia and industry. There will be no registration fees. For all presenters and discussants who chose to attend the conference onsite, you are responsible for your own travel and accommodation expenses. We shall provide more information in mid-May, 2023.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Brian Lucey

Professor of International Finance and Commodities

School of Business

Trinity College Dublin

Editor in Chief, International Review of Financial Analysis; and Co-Editor in Chief, International Review of Economics and Finance

Samuel Vigne

Professor of Finance

Luiss Business School

Editor, Finance Research Letters

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS (alphabetically ordered):

Johnny Chan, Shanghai Business School

Victor Chow, West Virginia University

CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS (alphabetically ordered):

Xiang Gao, Shanghai Business School

Chen Gu, Shanghai Business School

Yuan-Teng Hsu, Shanghai Business School

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (alphabetically ordered):

Hui Bu, Beihang University

I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

FengshengChien, Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade

Hung-Gay Fung, University of Missouri at St. Louis

Min Hua, Shanghai Business School

Shenghao Gao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Xu Guo, Shenzhen University

Jie He, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Wen Li, Shanghai Business School

Baohua Liu, Sichuan University

Jing Lu, Chongqing University

Xuan Peng, Huazhong Agricultural University

Guoping Shi, Shanghai Business School

Li Sun, Shanghai Business School

Shuairu Tian, Shanghai Business School

Jamie Tong, Shanghai University

Chi-Yang Tsou, University of Manchester

Xiongyuan Wang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Zhan Wang, Shanghai Business School

Changyuan Xia, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Frank Zhang, China Europe International Business School

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

A subset of papers will be invited to submit to the special issues of the International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, or Finance Research Letters. 

Special Issue Editors (Johnny Chan, Chen Gu, and Yuan-Teng Hsu) will expedite the review process of invited papers by using the regular paper submission standards at these journals. We expect one or more special issues will appear in early 2024. While presenting a paper at the conference is not a prerequisite to be included in a special issue, we give preference to those presented papers.

CONFERENCE CONTACT: For additional information, please feel free to contact us via email

Yuan-Teng Hsu

Research Center of Finance, Shanghai Business School

No.2271 West Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, China

ythsu@sbs.edu.cn