Call for Posters


The Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research will be holding its 12th Annual Conference on 19-22 May 2025 at Conrad Singapore Orchard. We invited submission of high quality papers from PhD students for the poster sessions which will be held on 20 and 21 May 2025, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Accepted Papers

Out of the 90 papers received from the Call for Posters, 16 papers were accepted. Posters will be available on this page from 2 May 2025.

  1. Can a Minor Regulatory Intervention Lower Corporate Borrowing Costs?
    Hui TAN* (ESSEC Business School)
  2. Institutional Ownership Concentration and Informational Efficiency
    Yan XIONG (University of Hong Kong)
    Liyan YANG (University of Toronto and ABFER)
    Zexin ZHENG* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  3. Price Discrimination, Backhaul Problems, and Trade Costs: Theory and Evidence from E-commerce Delivery
    Chunmian GE (South China University of Technology)
    Hanwei HUANG (City University of Hong Kong)
    Chang LIU* (City University of Hong Kong)
    Wenji XU (City University of Hong Kong)
  4. Do Gamified Social Interactions on a Green Fintech App Nudge Users' Green Investments?
    Chuwen CHEN* (Zhejiang University)
    Tse-Chun LIN (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)
    Xingguo LUO (Zhejiang University)
  5. Failure To Jettison: The Cost of Labor on the Path to Recovery
    Guanmin LIAO (Renmin University of China)
    Xiaoyun YU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    Yaya YU (Ant Financial)
    Zihan ZHANG* (Renmin University of China)
  6. Does Lender Monitoring Spill Over into Supply Chain Contracts?
    Ting DAI* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  7. Memory, complexity, and Generative AI
    Xingjian ZHENG* (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)
  8. Efficient Bankruptcy, Bargaining Power, and AI Innovation
    Runtong LIN* (University of Hong Kong)
  9. How Should Central Bank Issue Digital Currency?
    Fangfang GONG* (Singapore Management University)
  10. When Did China’s Economic Growth Start to Slow Down? A New Method of Tracking China’s Per Capita GDP Trends and Cycles
    Tingbin BIAN* (Nanyang Technological University)
    Qu FENG (Nanyang Technological University)
  11. Understanding Racial Disparities in Mortgage Refinancing
    Heejin YOON* (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  12. Export Restrictions and the Ripple Effect: Evidence from U.S.-China Trade Networks
    Laura Xiaolei LIU (Peking University)
    Hongxun RUAN (Peking University)
    Yijing ZHENG* (Peking University)
  13. Green Neighbors, Greener Neighborhoods: Peer Effects in Residential Green Investments
    Christine Zhuowei HUANG* (The University of Texas at Dallas)
  14. Banks Lending Behavior under the Zero-Zero Loan Policy
    Tasuku SATO* (University of Tokyo)
    Kenichi UEDA (University of Tokyo and ABFER)
  15. Navigating Bequests: The Strategic Role of Financial Advisors in Bequest Motives
    Michelle CHANG* (Nanyang Technological University)
    Yeow Hwee CHUA (Nanyang Technological University)
  16. Senior Lender Monitoring and Bankruptcy Inefficiency
    Jihye JANG* (Cornell University)

* Presenter

Organising and Selection Committee

Chair: Jun PAN (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ABFER)
Allen HUANG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
Kwan Ok LEE (National University of Singapore and ABFER)
Kenichi UEDA (University of Tokyo and ABFER)



Timeline

Open Submission 15 November 2024
Submission Deadline 15 January 2025
Selection by 15 February 2025
Inform Authors by 28 February 2025

Things to Note

  • We highly encourage submissions from PhD students and those who are not affiliated with ABFER.
  • Submissions can be a joint work with other scholars, researchers and PhD students.
  • Presenter has to be a current PhD student.
  • The presenter has to bring the roll-up poster, set up and attend the poster sessions in-person on 20 and 21 May at 5:00 pm.
  • The selection committee will select 10 to 16 papers. Authors have to prepare the poster if their papers are selected. Guidelines on poster preparation will be provided.
  • The selection committee will award three prizes after the poster sessions.
    • Best poster: S$500
    • 1st Runner-up: S$300
    • 2nd Runner-up: S$200
  • Only selected authors will be notified and decision by the selection committee is final.

Interest to Attend

  • If you are interested to attend the conference, please visit this page.
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