From April 7 to 9, European Financial Management Symposium 2017 was held at XMU. This symposium, co-hosted by XMU School of Economics, the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research and European Financial Management Association (EFMA), is intended to promote international exchanges with regard to finance and help Chinese finance go global.

On the afternoon of April 7, the opening ceremony of the symposium commenced at N302 of the Economics Building. Prof. Zhou Ying’gang, from the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, played host to the ceremony and gave a cordial welcome to all the participants from all over the world. At the ceremony, he also introduced the development of the finance in XMU. Today, the discipline of economics and finance of XMU has become in a class by itself in China and Asia-Pacific region and is on par with international standards.

The theme of this seminar revolved around finance and substantive economy. A trio of world-renowned financiers were invited to deliver keynote speeches. They are respectively Prof. Bruno Solnik of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Warren Bailey of Cornell University and Prof. Zhang Lu of Ohio State University. Also attending the seminar were renowned scholars, financial regulators and industry elites from multiple countries such as China, the United States, Britain, France and other countries. They engaged in in-depth discussion around the issues of international finance, financial liberalization, innovation and real economy, financial engineering, monetary policy, finance, property and labor market, the influence of financial science and technology on the financial and real economy, respectively.

Edited by Zhou Jin & Guo Yanyan

Source:http://wise.xmu.edu.cn/news/2017-04-17-16971.html