The forthcoming China International Risk Forum (CIRF) will be held on December 16, 2017 at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. The purpose of the forum is to promote research on risk, uncertainty, risk management, and related finance topics in the Asia-Pacific region, the Indian subcontinent and around the world. Potential research topics include but are not limited to:

● Corporate risk management, governance and control
● (De)Leverage, risk management, and financial safety of financial institutions
● Investment risk taking of financial institutions
● Ambiguity and ambiguity aversion
● Systemic risk: measurement and management
● Catastrophic risk and its management
● Compliance to financial regulations
● Behavioral explanations of corporate risk taking/management
● Big data applications and predictive modeling in risk management

The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 31, 2017. Please submit your work via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cirf2017. Please submit a pdf file without author information. No submission and registration fees are required for the conference.

Papers presented at the conference could be considered for publication in the special issues of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (PBFJ). Journal submissions will be independent from submissions to the conference. The PBFJ editorial team will be working closely with the CIRF program co-chairs on the review process. Papers presented at the conference can also be considered by the China Finance Review International (CFRI) hosted by the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

2017 CIRF President and Co-Chairs

Jin-Chuan Duan, National University of Singapore
Wenfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (President)
Tong Yu, University of Cincinnati

Research Excellence Award

● The China International Risk Forum Research Excellence Awards (US$1,000, funded by University of Kentucky)
● The Pacific Basin Finance Journal Research Excellence Award (US$1,000 – upon submission of the awarded paper to the journal; the paper will go through regular peer review prior to final acceptance and submission fee is waived).

Important Dates

Guest Co-Editors of PBFJ Risk Management Issue

Forum Registration

● Phase 1: Open to presenters, discussants and invited guests; from October 10 to November 30, 2017; free registration.
● Phase 2: Open to all participants; from December 1 to December 7, 2017 (or whenever reserved seats are fully booked); free registration.
● Phase 3: Open to all participants; from December 8 to noon of December 16, 2017 (or whenever seats are fully booked)；free registration；without your name on the name tag.

* Register early to waive the registration fee.
* Space is limited. People deciding now show but having registered in the first two stages, please kindly inform us about the change. We will pass your space to other people.
* Stay tuned with the registration page of the forum website on seat availability.

About CIRF

Formerly named as the Shanghai Risk Forum (SRF), CIRF has eight founding universities:

● East China Normal University
● Fudan University
● Renmin University of China
● Shanghai Jiao Tong University
● Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
● Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
● Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
● Zhejiang University

Its mission is to promote academic research in risk, uncertainty, and risk management. CIRF serves as a platform for participants to exchange research ideas and to better understand the practice.

About PBFJ

The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is aimed at providing a specialized forum for academic research on capital markets of the Asia-Pacific countries. The journal is included in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The latest impact factor score released by Thomson Reuters is 1.754 and the journal maintains a 5-year impact factor of 1.610.
Journal's website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pacific-basin-finance-journal

About CFRI

The China Finance Review International is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Emerald Group Publishing Limited, seeking to publish highly original and high level theoretical papers on financial and economic issues in China. The journal is listed in Scopus, ESCI, Cabell's Dictionary, and other major indexing services.
Journal's website: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/cfri.htm

Conference Venue

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai.

Conference Website

Visit http://www.acem.sjtu.edu.cn/acem/html/cirf2017/

Contact Email

cirf2017@acem.sjtu.edu.cn (Feel free to send us a note in case you have any issues with your submission or you have any other questions)

Lodging Information

Will be provided at the forum website.
We look forward to seeing you in Shanghai!

1.Create an EasyChair account

To submit your paper, you must have an EasyChair account. If you do not have an EasyChair account,
please click:
https://easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?conf=cirf2017 to create one.

2.Log in to your EasyChair account and submit your papers

● Click https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cirf2017 to log into your account.
● After you have successfully logged in to your account, click on "Conferences" and click on "CIRF2017" in the popped up table.
● Click "enter as an author", shown as the screenshot below, to enter the submission page.

● Instructions provided on the submission page (see the partial screenshot below) help you to submit your paper. Note that you can upload one pdf file only and authors' names and contacts must be removed from the file. The submission size should not exceed 20MB.

● If you have succeeded in submitting your paper, you will receive the email sent by EasyChair.

3.Others

Please pay attention to the following information, which is not included in the instructions on the submission page.

● If you are the sole author of a paper, you do not need to fill out the information of author 2 and author 3, even though it is marked by (*).
● After you have submitted your paper, you can update and resubmit your paper before the submission deadline (August 31, 2017). See the screenshot below.

4.If you forget user ID or password

Then, you will be asked to enter your email address which should be the email address registered with your account. EasyChair will send you an email asking for a confirmation. This email will also contain further instructions on password resetting.

If this guide can't solve the problems you meet during the process of submission, we are happy to assist you. Please send us an e-mail to cirf2017@acem.sjtu.edu.cn.

● Phase 1: Open to presenters, discussants and invited guests; from October 10 to November 30, 2017; free registration.
● Phase 2: Open to all participants; from December 1 to December 7, 2017 (or whenever reserved seats are fully booked); free registration.
● Phase 3: Open to all participants; from December 8 to noon of December 16, 2017 (or whenever seats are fully booked)；free registration；without your name on the name tag.

● The 2017 China International Risk Forum-Pacific Basin Finance Journal Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000) goes to the paper "Global Consistency or Market Oriented? A Quantitative Assessment of RBC Standards, Solvency II, and C-ROSS".
The authors are: Shuyan Liu, Peking University
Ruo Jia, Peking University
Yulong Zhao, China Insurance Regulatory Commission
Qixiang Sun, Peking University

● The 2017 China International Risk Forum-University of Kentucky Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000) goes to the paper "Estimating Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk: A Variance Reduction Approach".
The authors are: Ming-Hua Hsieh, National Chengchi University
Yi-Hsi Lee, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
So-De Shyu, Takming University of Science and Technology
Yu-Fen Chiu, Soochow University

● The 2017 China International Risk Forum-Global Association of Risk Professionals Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000) goes to "Parameter Learning, Sequential Model Selection, and Bond Return Predictability".
The authors are: Junye Li, ESSEC Business School
Andras Fulop, ESSEC Business School
Runqing Wan, ESSEC Business School

The Pacific Basin Finance Journal has devoted a special issue of its Journal to papers presented at the 2017 China International Risk Forum (CIRF), and the guest editors invite all conference presenters to consider submitting their work to the special issue. Published by Elsevier, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal provides a specialized forum for the publication of academic research on capital markets of the Asia-Pacific countries. The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal has generously sponsored a research excellence awards at the 2017 China International Risk Forum.
Special Issue Theme: Financial Risk Management in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

● Corporate risk management, governance and control
● (De)Leverage, risk management, and financial safety of financial institutions
● Pension investment and funding, health risk and insurance
● Credit risk, interest risk, market risk, liquidity risk, and operational risk of banks and other financial institutions
● Ambiguity and ambiguity aversion
● Systemic risk: measurement and management
● Catastrophic risk and its management
● Compliance to financial regulations
● Behavioral explanations of corporate risk taking/management
● Big data applications and predictive modeling in risk management

Guest Editors: Jin-Chuan Duan (National University of Singapore); Wenfeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Tong Yu (University of Cincinnati)

Submissions guidelines for the special issue:

● Go to the Journal website https://www.evise.com/profile/#/PBFJ/login
● Log into the EVISE, as per a normal submission to PBFJ
● In response to the opening screen asking you to "select article type", select the option: "2017 CIFR SI: Financial Risk Management in the Asia Pacific Region"
● Complete all remaining requested information on EES as per a normal PBFJ manuscript submission

Other Important Information:

● Submission Deadline for the special issue: 31 January 2018
● The acceptance deadline (the date by which all manuscripts should be fully reviewed and final decisions made on all manuscripts; and those failing to meet the deadline may be excluded):
31 October 2018
● The expected publication date (the date the Special Issue is expected to be published): 1 December 2018.

Please note that papers can only be considered for publication in this special issue if they are presented at the 2017 China International Risk Forum. Further details about the 2017 China International Risk Forum at http://www.acem.sjtu.edu.cn/acem/html/cirf2017/.

The first Shanghai Risk Forum (SRF) was held December 19, 2015 in Shanghai at the Fudan University. See the website.

The second Shanghai Risk Forum (SRF) was held December 18, 2016 in Shanghai at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. See the website.

Email: cirf2017@acem.sjtu.edu.cn

Contact person:

Ms. Wang Meng

Huashan Rd 1954, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

1.Create an EasyChair account

To review papers, you must have an EasyChair account. You need to click https://easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?conf=cirf2017 to create an EasyChair account for the following two reasons:
● you don't have an EasyChair account.
● the email address associated with your EasyChair account is different from the email address mentioned in the request email.

2.The process of reviewing papers

● Click https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cirf2017 to log in. Note that the email address to which the invitation was sent should be an email address registered with your account, otherwise you can't find the paper you are asked to review.
● After a successful login, please click on "subreviewer", as shown in the following screenshot.



● Enter the web page from which you can see the list of papers you need to review. To work with a request, click on a submission number in the list of papers.



● Enter the web page where you can see the icon .You can click the icon to download the paper.
● Please click "Answer request" at the upper right of the same web page (shown below) to enter the page allowing you to choose whether you would like to review a submission or not.



● Then make your choice in the following interface (Note: you cannot leave the message box empty):



● To submit a review report, please click "Submit review" at the upper right of the new web page.



● Then you will see the interface shown below.







● If you have successfully submitted your review, you can see the interface shown below.

3.If you forget user ID or password

Then, you will be asked to enter your email address which should be the email address registered with your account. EasyChair will send you an email asking for a confirmation. This email will also contain further instructions on password resetting.

4.Contact us

In case you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail: cirf2017@acem.sjtu.edu.cn.

Crowne Plaza located on 400 Panyu Road, Shanghai, 200052（银星皇冠假日酒店) is the forum designated hotel. If you plan to reserve Crowne Plaza through CIRF2017 reservation, you may fill in the following reservation form and send it back to reserves@cpsha.com (Please use CIRF2017 Crowne Plaza; your name as the email subject). Though the CIRF official event period is from 12/14 to 12/18/2007, please feel free to include extended dates in the reservation form.

>> Crowne Plaza Resevation Form

If you need to book other hotels, please book by yourself via the hotel website or telephone. The most convenient way to book hotels in Shanghai (China) is through ctrip.com. (http://english.ctrip.com/#from=click_en).

Dear 2017 CIRF Participants,

Welcome to Shanghai and the Antai  CollegeCollege of Economics and Management of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)!

Quite a few nice hotels are nearby SJTU. Below, we breakdown hotels into luxury, mid-level and economical classes, and provide some information about these hotels. Information on "price per night" is for a single-bed standard room. Please visit ctrip.com for accurate price information.

Luxury Hotels

Crowne Plaza Hotel

Address:  No. 400 Panyu Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-61458888
Walking time: 10 minutes
Price per night: ￥700-1200（$106-181）
Website: http://www.ihg.com
(Crowne Plaza is the forum designated hotel. We have blocked some rooms available up to 12/6/2017. The reservation form is attached.)

Mid-level (Fine) Hotels

(1) Xi Hua Hotel

Address:  No.1 West Huaihai Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-52585656
Walking time to SJTU: 7 minutes
Priceper night: ￥510-760（$77-115）
Website: http://www.cnwhotel.com/list/20829/#m

(2)SJTUFaculty Club

Address:  No.1954 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-62822822
Walking time: 4 minutes
Pricepernight: ￥420-680（$63-103）
Website: http://hotel.5dingfang.cn/107693/rooms.html

Economic Hotels

(1) Ibis Hotel

Address:  No.858 Fanyu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-62838800
Walking time: 8 minutes
Price per night: ￥400-440（$60-66）
Website: http://www.huazhu.com/Ibis

(2) Jinjiang Inn Hotel

Address:  No. 319 West Guangyuan Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-64471000
Walking time: 13 minutes
Price per night: ￥270-350（$41-53）
Website: http://www.jinjianginns.com/

Others

(1) Bo Xue Lou Hotel

Address:  No.1859 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-62825500
Walking time: 8 minutes
Price per night: ￥380（$57）
Website: http://hotel.5dingfang.cn/39028/rooms.html

(2) Han Ting Hotel

Address:  No.955 Fanyu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-64480808
Walking time: 12 minutes
Price per night: ￥340-380（$51-57）
Website: http://www.huazhu.com/Hanting

(3) Pu Jiang Zhi Xing Hotel

Address:  No.1621 Huashan Road, Changning District, Shanghai
Tel: 021-51696958
Walking time: 10 minutes
Price per night: ￥210-330（$32-50）
Website: http://11322.hotel.cthy.com/

A convenient way to book hotels in Shanghai (China) is through ctrip.com. (http://english.ctrip.com/#from=click_en). In case you have difficulty to reserve a hotel, please don't hesitate to contact cirf2017@acem.sjtu.edu.cn with a subject "Help on Hotel Accommodation".

Please refer to hotel map to find out the locations of the hotels.

Sincerely wish you will enjoy the 2017 CIRF, and have a great stay in Shanghai!

>>Map of Xuhui Campus