Dr. Michael Lokshin, Lead Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank, delivered a lecture titled “Age Policy Index” in the Economics Building of Xiamen University on the afternoon of November 5. This was the 10th lecture of the Fubon Economics and Finance Lecture Series initiated by XMU College of Economics.
Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies Successfully HeldOn November 2-3, the Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies, jointly initiated by the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), and School of Economics at Xiamen University, was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University....
2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics Successfully HeldOn October 21, the 2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University. Prof. Thomas Sargent, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, was specially invited to give a keynote speech enti...
Recently, the paper “A Latent Space Model for Weighted Keyword Co-occurrence Networks with Applications in Knowledge Discovery in Statistics” has been published online in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. The paper is a collaborative work of five authors: Yan Zhang, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, XMU School of Economics, Prof. Kuangnan Fang, Y...
Recently, a paper titled “Forecasting Inflation Using Economic Narratives” has been published in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, a leading international journal of statistics and econometrics. The paper is jointly authored by Prof. Fuwei Jiang from the School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University (XMU), Prof. Yongmiao Hong from...
Prof. Shuping Shi, Eminent Alumna of WISE, Visited College of Economics and Provided Guidance on Academic CareerOn the afternoon of September 20, Prof. Shuping Shi, a distinguished alumna of the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and Professor from the Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia, gave an enlightening talk on the topic of “Navigating Through an Ac...
Symposium on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Held at Xiamen UniversityOn September 7, the Symposium on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, jointly organized by the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, the School of Economics and the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics of Xiamen University, was successfully held. The sympos...
Recently, the paper “Multiperiod Dynamic Portfolio Choice: When High dimensionality Meets Return Predictability” has been published online in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, a top journal of statistics and econometrics. The paper is co-authored by four scholars: Associate Professor Xiaoling Mei affiliated with the Department of Finance at XMU School of Economics, and XMU Wang Y...
From July 1 to 5, 2024, a team of students and faculty members from the College of Economics, Xiamen University visited the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Cross-National Data Center in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, to participate in the 32nd LIS Summer Workshop. The team was led by Prof. Shaohua Chen, Prof. Qinghua Zhao, and Assistant Prof. Jialiang Zhu, and team members include Assistant Engine...
The Fifth Greater China Area Finance Conference Held at XMUOn June 29-30, the 5th Greater China Area Finance Conference, themed “Finance Research in the Era of AI”, was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University (XMU), with over 80 scholars from domestic and international academic institutions attending the conference. The conference, centering on the applications of large AI models ...
