Conference Date:October 11th,2025
Location:Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting & Finance, No. 2800, Wenxiang Road, Shanghai, China
Conference Theme:"Global Monetary Policy Issues and Challenges"
Hosted by the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting & Finance, this conference aims to provide an international forum for scholars and practitioners to present cutting-edge research and exchange ideas on the evolving landscape of finance and trade in the context of digital economies in emerging economies with a particular focus on China.
Motivation and Justification
Monetary policies and their associated challenges have become a focal point of policy debates amid growing global uncertainties. These uncertainties encompass environmental and climate risks (such as natural disasters), health crises (including the ongoing pandemic), geopolitical tensions, and financial instability. Recent extreme events, including the pandemic and escalating regional conflicts, have amplified these challenges, fueling debates without clear consensus on policies that work effectively across different countries or regions.
The theme of this conference is particularly relevant as it aligns with global trends towards digitization and the increasing importance of digital financial instruments, platforms, and policies. By focusing on finance and trade issues in digital economies, we aim to foster discussions that can lead to innovative solutions and insights beneficial to both academia and industry.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions on a range of topics related to finance and trade in digital economies, including but not limited to:
· The impact of digital currencies on international trade and finance
· Big data analytics and its implications for financial decision-making
· The role of artificial intelligence in transforming trade practices
· Digital platforms and their influence on global supply chains
· Regulatory challenges and frameworks for digital financial services
· Privacy protection and data security in the context of digital finance
· Sustainability and corporate governance in digital economies
· The effects of digital transformation on employment and skill requirements
· the effectiveness of monetary policy rules, and monetary-fiscal policy coordination.
· factors that influence the effectiveness of policies.
· how global factors such as financial technologies, natural disasters, terrorism, trade wars, trade agreements, and climate change influence monetary policy?
· endogenous growth models and monetary policy.
· financial cycles and monetary policy.
· business cycles and monetary policy.
· monetary policies and implications for financial market performance.
· economic uncertainties and monetary policy.
· energy insecurity and monetary policy.
· convergence of monetary policies in emerging markets.
· other related topics to the theme, corporate performance, risk management, portfolio diversification, trading strategies impact by monetary policies are all welcome.
Keynote Speaker(s)
Paresh Narayan, Professor of Finance
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Editor in Chief, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
Conference Chair
Ruihai Li, Professor of Finance
Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
Conference Co-Chairs(alphabetically ordered):
Yuan-Teng Hsu, Associate Professor of Finance
Shanghai Business School
Xuewu Wang, Associate Professor of Finance
University of Delaware
Program Committee
Yuan-Teng Hsu, Shanghai Business School
Paresh Narayan, Monash University
Wujun Sun, Nanjing University
Xinyuan Tao, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Tong Wang, University of Oklahoma
Xuewu Wang, University of Delaware
Zhipeng Yan, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
Yingfei Zheng,Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Paper Submissions
The deadline for paper submission isOctober3, 2025. Please submit two PDF files: one with a title page including author information (including emails) and one anonymous manuscript (without title page) to lirh@lixin.edu.cn. Use “Submission to 2025 The Workshop of the Yangtze River Delta Digital Economy Research Institute” as the title of your email. There is no submission fee. We only consider papers in English. Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Authors will be notified of the review committee’s decision byOctober8, 2025.
Publication opportunities
A subset of papers will be invited to be submitted to the special issue of the APPLIED ECONOMICS. Special Issue Editor(s) (Dr. Paresh Narayan, Monash University) will expedite the review process of invited papers by using the regular paper submission standards at these journals. We expect the special issues will appear at the end of 2026. While presenting a paper at the conference is not a prerequisite to be included in a special issue, we give preference to those presented papers.
Conference contact:For additional information, please feel free to contact us via email
Ruihai Li, Professor of Finance
Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
Shanghai, China
Participant Registration
We welcome participants from both academia and industry. There will be no registration fees. More information will be provided closer to the conference date.