The 1st INFINITI Conference on International Finance ASIA-PACIFIC

31/12/2018

Infiniti Conference on International Finance is an annual conference on international finance founded in 2003 by Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland and Monash University, Australia. The conferences were often held in Ireland or Europe. This was the first conference to be held in Asia, hosted by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH). The event took place from Dec 6 to Dec 8, 2016 at UEH, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

In the morning of Dec 7, 2016, at 59C Nguyen Dinh Chieu Campus, the opening ceremony was attended by many distinguished guests. On the UEH's side, there was the participation of Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dong Phong - President of UEH, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Dinh - Chairman of the University Council, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phan Thi Bich Nguyet - Vice President, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Trong Hoai - Vice President, Dr. Tran The Hoang - Vice President; Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Huu Huy Nhut - Vice President, along with registered researchers, lecturers and officers from UEH.  On the side of Monash University and TCD, there were Prof. Dr. Brian M. Lucey from TCD, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Batten from Monash University,  Prof. Dr. Colm Kearney - Dean of the Faculty of Business & Economics at Monash University.  UEH also welcomed the presence of many professors, researchers in Vietnam and from 20 countries around the world who had registered to attend this conference.

During the preparation process, the Conference Programme Committee received more than 600 papers from universities around the world and selected 90 papers to be presented at the conference. The authors came from over 20 different countries such as Ireland, Australia, France, UK, USA, Canada, Germany, China, ... and Vietnam.

The official sessions of the conference took place on Dec 7th and 8th, including 4 plenary sessions and 30 parallel sessions with 30 different topics. In addition to the traditional topics of the conference such as various financial markets, development finance, corporate governance, financial modeling, the topics for this year were relevant to the financial markets of developing countries, emerging countries, transition countries, Southeast Asia area, finance in the era of climate change, etc.

The conference was chaired by Prof. Dr. B. Lucey, Prof. Dr. Batten and Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dong Phong. Prof. Dr. B. Lucey and Prof. Dr. J. Batten are on the editorial board of many popular journals of Elsevier and ISI systems, such as Emerging Markets Review, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Research in International Business and Finance and Economic Development. The two professors attended the plenary session to share their experience and knowledge on the method and process of publishing papers in journals of economics and management under the ISI list.

This conference also belonged to a series of activities to celebrate the UEH 40th anniversary in 2016. This event was another step of UEH on the path of integration with other countries in the region and in the world, as well as an important move to help make UEH a research-oriented university.

Whole view of the Opening Ceremony

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dong Phong making the opening speech

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dong Phong presenting souvenirs to Prof. Dr. B. Lucey and Prof. Dr. J. Batten

Researchers taking souvenir photographs

That night, at the Reunification Hall, Hochiminh City, the Organizing Programme Committee held an informal meeting for researchers participating in the conference to meet, interact, and seeking for research cooperation in the future.

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