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The Chinese Hayek Society & Department of Economics and Finance of Hong Kong Shue Yan University jointly organised – “11th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Hayek Society” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Altogether, there were 50 participants and 29 papers were presented in this conference. The key topics included entrepreneurship, Hayek theories, and Internet revolution and challenges. In addition, a round-table talk was held to discuss the issues related to taxes.

The Department of Economics and Finance hosted the 11th Biennial Conference of Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association. The co-organisers include Department of Business Administration, Business, Economics and Public Policy Research Center and Sustainable Real Estate Research Center. There were 120 registered professors, post-graduate students, and practitioners came from 14 countries/regions (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, USA, and Vietnam) participating in 21 concurrent Oral Presentation Sessions with 81 papers, 22 Poster Presentations, a Journal Editor Panel Session, and a Country Report Session. Additionally, four journals, including Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning (JFCP), International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM), International Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and Construction Economics (IJSRECE), and Singapore Economic Review (SER) would offer opportunity for selected participants to publish their papers in the special issues. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles Yuji HORIOKA, Research Professor, Asian Growth Research Institute, Japan; and Dr. Euston QUAH, Professor and Head of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Also, a country report session was organised to share the key local economic issues.

Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) – Recent Development in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis – Seminar: Automatic Selection of Multivariate Dynamic Econometric Models. Speaker: Dr. Jurgen Doornik.
Abstract: Automatic general-to-specific selection of univariate econometric models is now well established and available in software. Extensions include saturation estimators, e.g. adding an impulse dummy for every observation to handle outliers. This seminar will provide an overview of the approach, and then consider extension of these procedures to the multivariate setting. The starting point is a vector autoregression, and the final stage can be a simultaneous equations model where the role of identification is considered. The aim is to obtain procedures trhat are relevant for empirical modelling.

Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) – Recent Development in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis. Seminar :Do both demand-following and supply-leading theories hold true in developing countries? Speaker: Professor Wong, Wing Keung (Asia University, Taiwan). In this seminar, the speaker recommends using both multivariate linear and nonlinear causality tests to analyze the relationship between financial development and economic growth. In particular, multivariate nonlinear causality test allows us to consider dependent and joint effects among financial variables, and detect a multivariate nonlinear deterministic process. By the end of the seminar, the recent applications of multivariate nonlinear co-integration and causality tests will be discussed.

28 February 2012, The Department of Economics and Finance organised : “Economics Seminar: Global Economic Crises”. Guest speaker Professor Alexander Katkov (Professor, Department of Economics, Johson and Wales University, and Professor Dragana Mitrovic, Faculty of Political Sciences, Balgrade University) delivered a speech in the seminar.

The Department of Social Work, and the Department of Economics and Finance co-organised – “Seminar: Hong Kong: More Business, Worse Poverty”. The guest speaker was Professor Leo Goodstadt, Adjunct professor, School of Business, University of Dublin.

Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) – Recent Developments in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis. Workshop: Important Considerations in Working Panel Dynamic Models. Speaker: Professor Hsiao Cheng, University of Southern California.

The Department of Economics and Finance, Sustainable Real Estate Research Centre, and Business and Economic and Public Policy Research Centre jointly organised – “International Conference on Banking, Real Estate and Financial Crises: Hong Kong, China and the World” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. 30 papers presented, which covered global financial crises, concurrent real estate issues and international financial environment. Furthermore, a round-table talk was arranged to discuss Hong Kong’s real estate markets and housing policies.

The Department of Business Administration and SRS Consortium for Advanced Study in Cooperative Dynamic Games organised – “Nobel laureate John Nash Public Lecture”. Professor John F. Nash Jr., an internationally renowned game theorist and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, gave a public lecture on Cooperative Optimization at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. In the public lecture, attended by about 800 academics and guests, Professor Nash presented various refinements and improvements on his recent research on three person cooperative games.

16 April 2019, Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) – Recent Developments in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis. Seminar: Panel Parametric, Semi-parametric and Nonparametric Construction of Counterfactuals. Speaker: Professor Hsiao Cheng, University of Southern California.

The Department of Economics and Finance, and the Social Work Department jointly organised – “Economics Seminar: Poverty in Hong Kong”. Guest speaker Professor Leo F. Goodstadt (Adjunct professor in the School of Business Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. HKIMR Research Fellowships) delivered a speech in the seminar.

Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) – Recent Development in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics Analysis. Workshop: Practice in nonlinear co-integration and causality tests. Speaker: Professor Wong, Wing Keung (Asia University, Taiwan). This workshop will discuss the econometric programs for linear and nonlinear co-integration and causality. Sample computer codes will be illustrated during the workshop. It is designed to familiarize participants with the common computer codes for tackling financial and economic research questions.

The Department of Economics and Finance organised – “Economics Forum: RMB Exchange Rate and Inflation in Hong Kong”. Professor Leo F. Goodstadt, Adjunct professor in the School of Business Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. HKIMR Research Fellowships was the guest speaker.

The Chinese Hayek Society & Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University in conjunction with Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Department of Business Administration, Hong Kong Shue Yan University organised – “The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Hayaek Society”.

Mr. Mak Cho Kei, Year 4 student of Department of Economics and Finance, attended the UA Summit 2016 held in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mak is the Regional Winner in the Economics category of The Undergraduate Awards 2016. His paper ‘Associations between Happiness and Sustainability in Asian Countries’ is the highest performing paper in the Asia region in the Economics category.

Each year, Winners and Highly Commended Entrants are invited to Dublin to attend the UA Global Summit – a “Davos for students”. The UA Global Summit is a unique four-day event (November each year) during which the top students from around the world take part in discussions, workshops and events all geared towards enhancing their personal development, encouraging responsible leadership and equipping them with the knowledge they need to further themselves, their ideas and research.

The Summit is an exclusive event in that only Winners and Highly Commended Entrants can attend. The event is designed to celebrate these outstanding undergraduates from across the world, and to inspire them with speakers assembled from a diverse range of backgrounds; as diverse as the attendees themselves. The four-day conference provides the opportunity to display their winning work at UPresent, with an audience comprising their fellow Summit attendees, i.e. like-minded, ambitious young academics from an array of disciples. The UA Global Summit promotes collaboration among these future leaders, encouraging them to build lifelong professional and personal relationships.

(Source: UA’s website at www.undergraduateawards.com/the-prize-2/the-prize/)