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The 3rd Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award
Announcement

To promote China-related research in financial economics, the Sun Yefang Economic Science Foundation (SYESF) established the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award (SYFIA) in 2013. This award focus on innovative research works, which makes significant contribution to the prosperity and development of Chinese finance field. The SYFIA, in line with the principles of openness and fairness, is awarded every two years. The third round award competition opens in July 2017.

ELIGIBILITY: Books and papers, published or accepted during the period from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2017 are eligible for the Award. The main content should be conducive to Chinese financial reform and policy development, and innovative in financial theory and industry practice.

AWARDS COMMITTEE: Awards Committee Members are invited by the Board of SYESF, from academia, financial regulatory authorities, and financial industry.

The Board of SYESF entrusted Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research as the supporting academic organization, and the Office of Awards Committee resides in Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research.

REWARD DETAIL: The Sun Yefang Economic Science Foundation will grant RMB 200,000 to Book Award winner and RMB 100,000 to Paper Award winner. The SYFIA will disburse the awards and certificates in mid-2018.

PROCEDURE:
1. Preliminary Review: The Awards Committee Office takes on the responsibility for preliminary procedural review;
2. Evaluation: The Awards Committee organize the external evaluation, works will be assigned to external experts randomly. For those finalists, the Awards Committee hold extensive deliberation and anonymous vote for the final awardee list;
3. Announcement: The final awardee list will be posted on the official websites of the SYESF and the National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University for one month;
4. Approval: The final awardee list will be submitted to the Board of SYESF for approval;
5. Award granting: The final awardees will be announced and presented at the award ceremony.

SUBMISSIONS: Applicants shall submit their works before December 31, 2017, including all appendices. Documents for the Book Award shall include:
1. A completed Application Form for the Third Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Book Award (Appendix 1);
2. Two reference letters (Appendix 3);
3. Three copies of book.

Please send all the documents to:

Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award Review Committee Office
PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
43 Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083

Documents for the Paper Award shall include:
1. A completed Application Form for the Third Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Paper Award (Appendix 2);
2. Two reference letters (Appendix 3);
3. Electronic version of the paper.

Please send all the documents in electronic format to: syffia@pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn

There is no application fee.

All appendices should be found on the website: http://eng.pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn/NIFR/innovation1.html

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tel: 010-6279 2735
E-mail: syffia@pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn

Contact address:
Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award Review Committee Office
PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
43 Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083

Posted: 7 Dec 2017