Call for Papers：The 6th Greater China Area Finance Conference

Call for Papers: The 6th Greater China Area Finance Conference

June 20-21 (Sat-Sun), 2026

Xiamen, China

We are pleased to announce the 6th Greater China Area Finance Conference (GCFC2026) in Xiamen, China, from June 20-21, 2026, which is jointly sponsored by the College of Economics, Xiamen University, and School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The conference aims to bring together scholars worldwide to present current research and promote research on new development in finance, under the theme “Finance Research in the Era of AI”.

We invite submissions related to modern finance from all areas such as corporate finance, asset pricing, risk management, investment, household finance, macro finance, international finance, ESG, political finance, machine learning, LLM and Generative AI, among others. Research on the greater China area and AI related is particularly welcome.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS（Listed in alphabetical order of surname):

Riccardo Colacito, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Riccardo (Ric) Colacito is an expert in international finance, financial econometrics, model uncertainty, and climate change, with papers published in top-tier journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Finance. Dr. Colacito serves as the faculty director of the Center for Excellence in Investment Management at UNC. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).He has been the editor for Review of Asset Pricing Studies and on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Empirical Finance, among others

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Shiyang Huang, The University of Hong Kong

Shiyang Huang is a Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Head of the Department of Finance at HKU Business School. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A) and the University of Hong Kong Outstanding Young Scholar Award. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the internationally renowned journals Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has published 19 papers in leading international journals, including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Dacheng Xiu, The University of Chicago

Dacheng Xiu is Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His current research focuses on developing machine learning solutions to big-data problems in empirical finance. He has served as Co-Editor for the Journal of Financial Econometrics and has been on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for many prestigious journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, and Management Science. He has received several recognitions for his research, including the Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, and Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics.

Jun Yu, University of Macau

Jun Yu is currently UMDF chair Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Macau and Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau. He has published many papers in leading journals in finance and economics. His articles for detecting the presence of asset price bubbles and estimating their origination and termination dates have initiated a new area of research on the econometric analysis of bubbles in financial assets and real estate. Professor Yu is an inaugural fellow of the Society of Financial Econometrics and a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Theory.

Xiaoyan Zhang, Tsinghua University

Xiaoyan Zhang is the Xinyuan Chair Professor of Finance and Associate Dean at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. Professor Zhang’s research interests include Chinese capital market, Fintech, empirical asset pricing, and international finance. Many of her works have been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and other top tier academic journals, and she has won multiple best paper awards. She is appointed as co-editor at Journal of Banking and Finance, and associate editor at Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Financial Management.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Researchers interested in participating should submit their papers through our online portal at https://conf.xmu.edu.cn/gcfc2026/

The submission deadline is April 20, 2026. Decisions of acceptance will be announced by April 30, 2026.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For academic inquiries about the conference, please contact Prof. Yinggang Zhou (ygzhou@xmu.edu.cn), and Prof. Fuwei Jiang (fwjiang@xmu.edu.cn), Co-Chairs of the organizing committee.

For technical affairs in the submission, please contact Ms. Yuhan Chi (chiyuhan@xmu.edu.cn).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

College of Economics at Xiamen University

The College of Economics, Xiamen University (XMU) is comprised of the School of Economics (SOE), the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics (Chow Institute). 

The College of Economics at XMU has consistently made strong academic impact in economics and finance, as evidenced by global rankings: (1) U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings 2025-2026: Ranked 24^th globally in Economics and Business. (2) ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025: Ranked 50^th in Finance and 68^th in Economics globally. (3) QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Ranked 78^th globally in Economics and Econometrics.

School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

The School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences is one of the most prestigious business schools for educating senior management talents in China. Under the education mode of “integration of schools with institutes”, both the School of Economics and Management and various institutes of Chinese Academy Science are jointly responsible for the graduate education.

For more information about the past Greater China Finance Conferences, please see

https://econpub.xmu.edu.cn/Meetings/GCFC2016/

https://econpub.xmu.edu.cn/Meetings/GCFC2018/

https://conf.xmu.edu.cn/gcfc2020/

https://conf.xmu.edu.cn/gcfc2022/

https://conf.xmu.edu.cn/GCFC2024/

Located in Southeast China with convenient direct flights to many major cities in Asia, Xiamen is famous for its resort like atmosphere and has a reputation as the cleanest and most livable Chinese city. Interesting places near Xiamen include the UNESCO World Heritage Hakka Earth Buildings, Gulangyu (Piano Island) and Wuyi Mountain. For more information on the city of Xiamen, please go to: https://www.xmenglish.cn/