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

The entry for Student Contest is started!!!!

Abstract Submission Started!!!
http://www.aiecon.org/conference/cef2015/index.htm

The 21st Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2015) will take place in Taipei (The first Asian location of CEF annual conferences) from 20 June through 22 June, 2015. The program will cover all areas dealing with the computational aspects (broadly defined) of economics, finance, and decision making.

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

Main topic areas (but not limited to)
Agent-based modeling
Artificial/experimental markets
Asset pricing and computational finance
Dynamic games
DSGE/business cycle modeling
Economic dynamics development and growth
Econophysics
Finance and financial crises
Fiscal policy
Heterogeneous-agent modeling
Inflation dynamics
Learning and evolutionary economics
Macro Theory
Market structure
Monetary policy
Monte Carlo methods
Open-economy macro and international trade
Optimal and robust control
Optimization and solution methods
Search and labor markets
Time series econometrics and analysis
Volatility modeling

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
Francesco Furlanetto, Researcher, Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway
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
Michel Juillard, Adviser, Bank of France, Paris, France
Thomas Lubik, Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA
Paul McNelis, Professor, Economics and Financial Policy, Fordham, University, NYC, USA

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

EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
Chung-Ching Tai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tunghai University, Taiwan



Pre-Conference Workshops
Murat Yildizoglu, Agent-Based Models of Economics and Finance with Netlogo
Cars Hommes, Behavioral Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations in Complex Economic Systems

Deadlines
Feb. 16, 2015 - Abstract Submission Deadline
Mar. 16, 2015 - Student Contest Entry Deadline
Mar. 23, 2015 - Decisions on submitted papers
Apr. 13, 2015 - Student Contest Finalists Announced
Apr. 27, 2015 - Discounted Early Registration
May. 11, 2015 - Presenter Registration Deadline
May. 18, 2015 - Presenters Upload Full Papers to Conference Maker

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.

For further information, please visit our website
http://www.aiecon.org/conference/cef2015/index.htm