JRFM Webinar | The Future of Economics and Finance
28 Apr 2021, 00:00
Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Financial Management
Webinar Information
1st JRFM Webinar
The Future of Economics and Finance
As can be seen in the 2020 JRFM Annual Report, the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) has significantly increased the number of publications, citations, readers, editorial board members, and reviewers. Moreover, JRFM has established many sections, covering many topical and challenging aspects of economics and finance. The webinar will cover the topic "The Future of Economics and Finance", which describes the coverage and direction in which the journal and its numerous sections will be moving.
Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer
Department of Finance, College of Management,
Asia University,
Taichung, Taiwan
Date: 28 April 2021
Time: 2:00 pm CEST
Webinar ID: 837 4667 6117
Webinar Secretariat: jrfm.webinar@mdpi.com
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer
The following experts will present and talk:
Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer, Asia University, Taiwan |
Michael McAleer holds a PhD (Economics), Queen's University, Canada. He is University Research Chair Professor, Department of Finance, College of Management, and Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, College of Information and Electrical Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan; Erasmus Visiting Professor of Quantitative Finance, Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Adjunct Professor, Department of Economic Analysis and ICAE, Complutense University of Madrid (founded 1293), Spain; Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. On numerous occasions, he has been a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University and Osaka University, Japan; University of Padova (founded 1222), Italy, Complutense University of Madrid (founded 1293), Spain; Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy; University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (DFIETI), and an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (FIEMSS), Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (FMSSANZ), Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands, Journal of Econometrics, and Econometric Reviews. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI), and has guest-edited numerous Special Issues in JRFM. In terms of academic publications, he has published 1000+ journal articles and books in economics, financial econometrics, quantitative finance, risk and financial management, econometrics, statistics, time series analysis, energy economics and finance, sustainability, carbon emissions, climate change econometrics, forecasting, informatics, data mining, bibliometrics, and international rankings of journals and academics. |
Prof. Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA |
Prof. Shawkat Hammoudeh is an expert in gas and oil pricing, and its effects on the economy. He has served as the senior economist to the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries and as a researcher for the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He has earned grants to study world oil prices and is the co-author of journal articles on the price of gas and oil and its connection to the U.S. markets. |
Prof. Dr. Siri A. Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), USA |
Dr. Siri Terjesen is the Associate Dean of Research and External Relations and the Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida, and Professor .2 at the Norwegian School of Economics (Norges Handelshøyskole: NHH) in Bergen, Norway. She joined FAU in August 2019 from American University in Washington D.C., where she served as Professor and Director of the American University Center for Innovation and was co-PI of the NSF I-Corps site grant to commercialize tech-based entrepreneurship. |
Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph, Canada |
Prof. Thanasis Stengos joined the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 1984, where he was University Research Chair from 2004 to 2019. He received his BSc and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and PhD from Queen's University. |
Program
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
Chair Introduction |
2:00 – 2:05 pm |
Prof. Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh The Future of Energy Economics |
2:05 – 2:40 pm (with Q&A) |
Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos Research Challenges and Opportunities for Publishing under COVID Slides of the presentation available here. |
2:40 – 3:15 pm (with Q&A) |
Prof. Dr. Siri A. Terjesen The Future of Business and Entrepreneurship Research Slides of the presentation available here. |
3:15 – 3:50 pm (with Q&A) |
Closing of Webinar |
3:50 – 4:00 pm |
Webinar Content
Relevant Special Issues
AI and Financial Markets II
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori, Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Takiguchi
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021
Artificial Neural Networks in Business
Guest Editor: Dr. Jakub Horak
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2021
Economy under the Conditions of a Creative Society
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Tomas Kačerauskas
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021
FinTech and the Future of Finance
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Jakub Górka, Prof. Dr. Malte Krueger
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2021
Machine Learning Applications in Finance
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Jong-Min Kim
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021
Smart Cities Research in Enabling Technologies and Tools
Guest Editors: Dr. Stephen Chan, Dr. Yuanyuan Zhang, Dr. Jeffrey Chu, Dr. Shou Hsing Shih
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021
Technical Analysis of Financial Markets
Guest Editor: Dr. Reza Tajaddini
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021
Trends in Information Technology
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Aleksy Kwilinski, Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kuzior, Prof. Dr. Oleksii Lyulyov
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021
The Use of Big Data in Finance
Guest Editor: Dr. Paulo Ferreira
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021
The Future of Banking Risk and Regulation
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Stefano Zedda
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021
Innovation, Internationalization and Entrepreneurship
Guest Editors: Prof. Renata Korsakienė, Prof. Hasan Dinçer, Dr. Serhat Yüksel
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021)
Green and Sustainable Finance
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Sabri Boubaker, Prof. Dr. Pierre Chollet, Prof. Dr. Souad Lajili-Jarjir
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2021
Frontiers in Quantitative Finance
Guest Editor: Dr. Tihana Škrinjarić
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021
Topical Collection
Frontiers in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Collection Editors: Dr. Saralees Nadarajah, Dr. Stephen Chan, Dr. Yuanyuan Zhang, Dr. Jeffrey Chu