The 2010 China International Conference in Finance (CICF), co-organized by China Center for Financial Research of Tsinghua University and MIT Sloan School of Management, was held in Beijing from July 4 to 7. Over 200 scholars from home and abroad as well as more than 100 students in the filed participated in the conference.

Prestigious financial experts such as Franklin Allen, Steven Ross, Stewart C. Myer, Andrew W. Lo, Michael Brennan, and Hayne Leland, have been invited as keynote speakers at China International Conference in Finance in the past years.

The 2010 Conference received 810 papers, including 561 papers in English and 249 in Chinese. A total of 227 papers were discussed on the Conference, and seven of them were awarded “the best thesis.”

Dean of SEM Professor QIAN Yingyi delivered a welcome speech at the Conference. This year’s keynote speaker Professor John Y. Campbell, Chair of the Department of Economics of Harvard University, talked about the risk of government bonds in light of the development of economic and financial policies on a global scale.

The next CICF will be held July 4 to 7, 2011. The collection of papers will start at the end of October 2010.