The 8th Summer Institute of Finance, jointly organized by Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and PBC School of Finance, was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province, from July 20 to 22, 2017. More than 60 scholars and industry experts from all over the world attended the summit to share their research and insights.
Sheridan Titman, former President of the American Finance Association Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin and Special-term Professor of SAIF, served as the Chair of the Jury Committee.
Prof. Jiang Wang, Chair of SAIF’s Academic Council, Prof. Chun Chang, Executive Dean, and Prof. Hong Yan, Deputy Dean, along with Prof. Nengjiu Ju, and special-term professors Anmin Zhang and Huibing Zhang were present at the event.
The summit this year received 265 papers, 10 of which were selected by a jury panel of more than 30 members to be presented at the summit, in addition to a policy-oriented paper. This summit focused on China’s financial issues and covered such topics as market bubbles, information transmission, executive incentives and corporate governance.
SAIF Prof. Hong Yan and special-term Prof. Sheridan Titman,Prof. Huining Cao of CKGSB, and Prof. Hong Zhang of PBCSF presided over the discussions at parallel sessions.
SAIF Prof. Nengjiu Ju presented his paper entitled “Optimal Contracting with Unobservable Managerial Hedging”. Scholars from the United States, Canada, Australia and China listened to the presentation and commented on the paper.
