ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

2017 CHINA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT (CICIRM 2017)

July 19-22, 2017
Guilin, China

The 8th China International Conference on Insurance and Risk Management (CICIRM 2017) will be held on July 19-22, 2017 at Grand Link Hotel in Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The conference was jointly organized by Tsinghua University’s China Center for Insurance and Risk Management (CCIRM) and the Cass Business School of City University, London, and hosted by School of Management, Guilin University of Finance and Economics. Following upon the last seven years’ successful meetings in Xining (July 19-22, 2010), in Beijing (July 24-27, 2011), in Qingdao (July 18-21, 2012), in Kunming (July 17-20, 2013), in Shenzhen (July 23-26, 2014) , in Hangzhou (July 15-18, 2015), and in Xi’an (27-30, 2016), CICIRM 2017 continues to launch the annual forum in China for international communication and cooperation in the studies of insurance, risk management, and actuarial science.

 

The CICIRM is the unique international conference in the field of insurance and risk management in China. CICIRM attendees will have the opportunity to hear from distinguished speakers, exchange ideas with leading international researchers, present recent academic and practical research in parallel sessions, and discuss the latest academic and practical research on current importance within the field of insurance, risk management and actuarial science. There have been 15 well-known professors invited as keynote speakers over the past seven years. They are Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania), Sharon Tennyson (Cornell University), Gene Lai (Washington State University), Christopher Parsons (City University London ), Patrick Brockett (University of Texas-Austin), Richard MacMinn (Illinois State University), J. David Cummins (Temple University), Mary A. Weiss (Temple University), Jan Dhaene ( KU Leuven), Georges Dionne (HEC Montréal), Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Mark J. Browne (St. John’s University), David Babbel (University of Pennsylvania), Andreas Richter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and Patricia H. Born (Florida State University)

 

The Conference Proceedings have been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) since 2011. The proceedings of CICIRM 2017 will continue to be published by Tsinghua University Press and submitted for indexing by CPCI.

 

Detailed information is available at the conference website: http://www.ccirm.org/conference/2017.

 

Keynote Speakers:

  • Prof. Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

 

Submission Guidelines
The conference will cover topics related to insurance, risk management and actuarial science. Research related to specific aspects of Chinese markets and government programs is especially welcome and parallel sessions will be organized in both English and Chinese.

 

Possible topics for submission can include:

 

Development and Regulation of Insurance Market
Insurance Economics,
Theory and Practice of Risk Management,
Property and Liability Insurance,
Life and Health Insurance,
Pension and Social Security,
Actuarial Science
Behavioral Insurance

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts can be submitted in either English or English-Chinese bilingual. All abstracts should be submitted electronically as a file attachment in Word (.doc) format and formatted using the conference abstract template.

The scientific quality of all submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of the following three criteria: novelty of the research, significance of the findings, and clarity of writing. The conference participants whose abstracts are accepted will be encouraged to contribute oral presentations in English.

We will inform the abstract submitter about the acceptance of submitted abstracts by e-mail. Please contact us via email ccirm@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn if you have not received your e-mail notification by April 30, 2017. The abstract submitter is responsible for informing all co-authors about the status of the abstract.
All accepted abstracts will be saved on USB flash drive and distributed to all registrants at the start of the conference.

Click to download CICIRM 2017 conference template for abstracts

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Oral presentations will be 30 minutes long and consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 5 minutes for questions/discussion and 5 minute for presenter change over. Please note that time slots for oral presentations are limited and therefore oral presentations will be assigned on a competitive basis.

 

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION

Full paper submissions are accepted in English or Chinese, but all full papers submitted must have a title, an abstract, keywords, all authors’ contact information (including full first given names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses), and references in English. All full papers must be submitted electronically as a file attachment in Word (.doc) format and formatted using the conference full paper template.

Click to download CICIRM 2017 conference template for papers

 

All submitted full papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted paper will be considered for publication after the conference. At least one author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication. We will inform the paper submitter about the acceptance of submitted paper by e-mail. Please contact us via email ccirm@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn if you have not received your e-mail notification by September 1, 2017. The full paper submitter is responsible for informing all co-authors about the status of the paper.

 

Submissions should be made via email ccirm@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

 

Important Dates:

  • Deadline for submission of abstract: April 17, 2017
  • All abstract acceptance notifications letters will be sent via e-mail by April 30, 2017
  • Deadline for submission of full paper: June 1, 2017
  • Deadline for early-bird registration: June 30, 2017
  • Conference date: July 19-22, 2017
  • All full paper acceptance notifications letters will be sent via e-mail by September 1, 2017

 

For additional information, please contact:  ccirm@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Organizing Committee of CICIRM 2017  

 

Contact us:

YAN Xuehuang,  ZHANG Yanfang

China Center for Insurance and Risk Management

Address: Room 376, Weilun Building,
              School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
              Beijing, China, 100084
Tel:     +86 10 62773414;  +86 10 62782830
Fax:     +86 10 62796801
Email:  ccirm@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn