Call For Papers

2025 The SBS International Conference for Finance (SBSICF)

Conference Theme: “Recent Advances in Behavioral and Sustainable Finance”

June 14 – June 15, 2025, Onsite at Shanghai Business School (SBS), Shanghai, China

Hosted by the Research Center of Finance, Shanghai Business School

The 2025 SBSICF provides an international forum for scholars and practitioners to present cutting-edge research and exchange ideas on issues in behavioral and sustainable finance. Behavioral finance integrates psychological theories with economic and financial theories to understand how cognitive biases and emotions influence financial decision-making. 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 the International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, and China Finance Review International.

TOPICS:

The theme of the 2025 SBSICF is “Recent Advances in Behavioral and Sustainable Finance.” The topics may include but are not limited to:

1. The implications of behavioral biases, sentiment, and emotions of shareholders and investors on their investment decision making and investment performance in the financial markets;

2. The impact of government policies on investor decisions and shareholder behavior;

3. The effectiveness of taxes, subsidies, regulations, or other government policies and interventions on corporate ESG/CSR performance in a long-term and systematic manner;

4. How corporate ESG/CSR disclosure impacts the extent of government taxes, subsidies, regulations, or other government policies and interventions;

5. Advances in new government policy to promote corporate ESG/CSR engagement;

6. Advances in governmental response to corporate green washing activities;

7. The impact of government budget on taxes, subsidies, regulations, or other government policies and interventions in corporate ESG/CSR engagement;

8. The moderating effect of corporate digital transformation for the impact of government on corporate ESG/CSR engagement;

9. Government regulatory improvement, such as ESG/CSR enforcement, on corporate ESG/CSR engagement;

10. Corporate finance, corporate governance, and Sustainable finance.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

The deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2025 (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 sbsicf@sbs.edu.cn. Please use “Submission to 2025 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 30, 2025.

PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION:

We welcome participants from both academia and industry. The registration fees will be RMB ¥1000 for teacher or expert, ¥600 for students. For all presenters and discussants who choose to attend the conference onsite, you are responsible for your own travel and accommodation expenses. We shall provide more information in mid-May, 2025.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Brian Bruce, Professor

The Center for Investment Research, United States

Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Behavioral Finance

Paresh Narayan, Professor

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Editor in Chief, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade

Johnny Chan, Distinguished Professor

Shanghai Business School, China

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Review of Economics & Finance, and Finance Research Letters

CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Johnny Chan, Shanghai Business School

CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS (alphabetically ordered):

Xiang Gao, 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

Fengsheng Chien, Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade

Xiaohong Dong, Anhui University of Finance and Economics

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

Xuechen Gao, Penn State Behrend

Shengho Gao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Chen Gu, Shanghai Business School

Jie He, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Wen Li, Shanghai Business School

Yanqiong Li, Shanxi University

Baohua Liu, Sichuan University

Xiangqiang Liu, Southwest University

Jing Lu, Chongqing University

Xuan Peng, Huazhong Agricultural University

Penghua Qiao, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Hongbo Shen, Fudan University

Guoping Shi, Shanghai Business School

Shuairu Tian, Liaoning University

Jamie Tong, Shanghai University

Chi-Yang Tsou, University of Manchester

Xuewu Wang, University of Delaware

Zhan Wang, Shanghai Business School

Di Wu, Capital University of Economics and Business

Changyuan Xia, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Xiaodong Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Lin Yu, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

Chunqiang Zhang, Anhui 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 Journal of Behavioral Finance, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and fast-track submissions to the International Review of Financial Analysis, China Finance Review International. Special Issue Editors (Johnny Chan, and Yuan-Teng Hsu) will expedite the review process of invited papers by using the regular paper submission standards at each respective journal. We expect the special issues will appear in 2026. 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:

Yuan-Teng Hsu

Research Center of Finance, Shanghai Business School

No.2271 West Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, China

ythsu@sbs.edu.cn