2025 MRS International Risk Conference Call for Papers

Conference dates

24 Jul 2025 - 26 Jul 2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Description

Call for Papers
2025 MRS International Risk Conference
July 24-26, 2025
Boston, USA

The 2025 MRS International Risk Conference will take place in Boston, Massachusetts from July 24-26, 2025. Hosted by the Sawyer Business School of Suffolk University, the conference welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide on all aspects of risks and capital markets. The event will also feature an AI and Climate Risk Forum at MIT in the afternoon on July 26th. Key event sponsors include the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the China Finance Review International (CFRI), the Global Association for Risk Professionals (GARP), and the Modern Risk Society (MRS). The annual MRS conference was known as the “CFRI & CIRF Conference”. The conference submission deadline is February 10th, 2025, Eastern Time.

The conference aims to promote research broadly related to global financial risk management. As in the previous annual MRS conferences, the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal will dedicate a special issue to papers presented at the conference. Potential research topics include but are not limited to the following:

 AI risk
 Ambiguity and ambiguity aversion
 Artificial intelligence and machine learning
 Asset pricing: capital market efficiency and anomalies
 Banking and bank risk management
 Behavioral finance and risk management
 Climate risk, catastrophic risk, and rare disasters
 Corporate finance and governance
 Credit risk and liquidity risk
 Cryptocurrency risk and reward
 Cyber risk
 Derivatives, risk management, and speculations
 ESG and green finance
 Financial literacy and household finance
 Geopolitical risk
 Health and retirement risk
 Housing market and housing risk
 Inflation and monetary policy
 Insurance and risk finance
 Leverage and systemic risk
 Mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutional investors
 Supply chain risk and corporate risk management
 Venture capital, innovations, and entrepreneurship

Keynote Speakers
• Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT, 2024 Economics Nobel Prize Winner
• Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School

Conference Website: https://www.globalmrs.org

Conference Submission: Interested authors should register an account via our submission website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MRS2025. Both completed papers and early drafts with innovative ideas related to the theme topics are encouraged. Please submit a PDF file without author information via the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MRS2025/Submission/Index. The submission deadline is February 10th, 2025, Eastern Time. There is no submission fee. For detailed submission instructions, please refer to: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/author/author-submission-form.html. Papers will be anonymously reviewed by multiple members of the Program Committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to be available to serve as session chairs or discussants.

Submission to the PBFJ: The submission to the PBFJ special issue is separate from the conference submission and the submission portal is expected to open on August 15, 2025 (tentative). Submission details will be provided shortly after the conference. The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is a high-quality journal specializing in the publication of academic research on capital markets of the Asia-Pacific countries. PBFJ’s current Impact Factor is 4.8.

Submission to the CFRI: You are also welcome to submit your paper to the China Finance Review International, a flagship academic journal covering both Chinese and international financial markets. CFRI is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, ABI, EBSCO, HCERES, and more. The Journal boasts an Impact Factor of 9.0 and a Scopus CiteScore of 12.4. To submit, please use the CFRI’s online submission and review system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cfri.

Research Excellence Awards
 Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 Suffolk University Sawyer Business School Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 Global Association of Risk Professionals Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 China Finance Review International Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 Sinofin CCER Database Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Research Excellence Award (USD1,000)
 Modern Risk Society Contribution Award (USD 1,000)
 Modern Risk Society “Edward Kane Memorial” Research Excellence Award (USD 1,000)
 Modern Risk Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Conference Registration
The registration fee for the conference is USD 295. The registration fee for PhD students is USD 145. Presenting authors should register for the conference by May 31, 2025.

Important Dates
Deadline for Conference Submission February 10, 2025
Notification of Conference Acceptance March 20, 2025
Conference Registration for Presenters May 31, 2025
Conference Dates July 24-26, 2025
Starting Date for Submission to PBFJ August 15, 2025
Expected Journal Acceptance/Publication Date December 31, 2026

Conference Co-presidents
Michael Goldstein, Babson College
Shahriar Khaksari, Suffolk University
Wenfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Program Committee Co-chairs
Lin Guo, Suffolk University
Abu Jalal, Suffolk University

Guest Co-Editors of the PBFJ Special Issue
Hui Guo, University of Cincinnati
Lin Guo, Suffolk University
Wenfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tong Yu, University of Cincinnati

Conference Accommodation
Omni Parker House
Address: 60 School Street, Boston, 02108, USA
Phone number: (617) 227-8600
The Omni Parker House is famously known as the location where President John F. Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier.

Suffolk University Dormitories
To be updated

Contact of Conference Affairs
Susan Loos, Suffolk University, susan.loos@suffolk.edu
Huixia Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, luhuixia@sjtu.edu.cn

Conference Contact Email
admin@globalmrs.org; cfrc@sjtu.edu.cn