Call for Papers -CEF 2015
Society for Computational Economics
21st International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
June 20-22, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan

http://www.aiecon.org/conference/cef2015/index.htm

Keynote Speakers

Athanasios Orphanides, MIT Sloan School of Management

Stephen Turnovsky, Department of Economics, University of Washington

Tony He, Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology, Sydney

Program Chair

Shu-Heng Chen, Professor, AI-Econ Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Program Committee:
(Committee members will be organizing invited and contributed sessions, and nearly all have committed to attending the conference.)

AGENT-BASED MODELLING

Mikhail Anufriev, Senior Lecturer, Economics Discipline Group, UTS Business School, Sydnedy, Australia

Jasmina Arifovic, Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Cars Hommes, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thomas Lux, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany

Akira Namatame, Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Defense Academy

FINANCE

Carl Chiarella, Professor, Finance Disciplinary Group, University of Technology. Sydney, Australia

German Creamer, Associate Professor, Department of Quantitative Finance, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA

David Goldbaum, Associate Professor, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology. Sydney, Australia

Xue-Zhong He, Professor, Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology. Sydney, Australia

MACROECONOMICS - THEORY

Kenneth Kasa, Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Kevin Lansing, Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, USA

Robert Tetlow, Advisor, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. USA

MACROECONOMICS - EMPIRICAL

Thomas Lubik, Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA

Paul McNeils, Professor, Economics and Financial Policy, Fordham, University, NYC, USA

Michel Juillard, Adviser, Bank of France, Paris, France

Francesco Furlanetto, Researcher, Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway

ECONOMETRICS

Francesco Ravazzolo, Senior Researcher, Research Department, Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway

Peter Zadrozny, Research Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., USA

COMPUTATIONAL METHOD

Gary Anderson, Economist, Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C., USA

Wei Zhang, Professor, College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

**ECONOPHYSICS **

Wei-Xing Zhou, Professor of Finance, East China, University of Science and Technology, China

Pre-Conference Workshops

Murat Yildizoglu, Agent-Based Models of Economics and Finance with Netlogo

Cars Hommes, TBA

Deadlines

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 16, 2015

Student Contest Entry Deadline: March 16, 2015

Decisions on submitted papers: March 23, 2015

Student Contest Finalists Announced: April 13, 2015

Discounted Early Registration: April 27, 2015

Presenter Registration Deadline: May 11, 2015

Presenters Upload Full Papers to Conference Maker: May 18, 2015

Student Prizes

The SCE sponsors cash prizes for the best graduate student paper presented at the Conference. Details for eligibility and submission will be posted on the conference website.