The rapid development of emerging markets is changing the landscape of the world economy

George A. Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate, University of California, Berkeley
Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Department of Economics
Yongding Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh

Submissions of theoretical and empirical studies are welcome. Topics covered may include but are not limited to:
• China and the Global Financial Crisis
• Implications of the Global Recession for the Chinese Economy
• China’s Economic Reform, Growth Patterns and New Challenges
• China’s Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Response to the Current Global Crisis
• Income Distribution, Healthcare and Social Welfare Reforms
• Globalisation and International Integration
• Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
• Innovation, Technology and Development
• Financial Sector and Tax Reforms
• Real Estate, Capital Market and Corporate Governance
• Labour Market Reform and Human Resource Management
• Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Migration
• Rural Development and Land Reform
• Sustainable Development and the Natural Environment
Selected conference papers will be published in the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies and an edited book. Further features of the conference include:
• PhD colloquium: experienced supervisors will chair and comment on students’ papers
• Prizes will be awarded for best papers submitted and presented by PhD students
• Information Corner on job opportunities
You are invited to submit an abstract of 300-500 words by the 25th of March 2009, either through online submission (www.ceauk.org.uk), or email to jinghaizheng.cea@gmail.com. You will be informed within two weeks whether your paper can be accepted. Subsequently you will be expected to provide the full paper by the 29th of May 2009.
Conference fee is €105, but for PhD student the fee is €40 (including membership of CEA and four issues of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies). Chinese students studying in the UK are particularly encouraged to submit their papers and participate in the conference. We will try our best to assist with your VISA applications and transportation from the UK to Dublin.
About the CEA (Europe)
China’s economic development has become increasingly important for the world in general and for Europe in particular taking accounts the fact that EU is China’s most important trading partner. A major effort we have been attempting at CEA (UK) was to push forward the establishment of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe), i.e., CEA (Europe).
We are now pleased to inform CEA (UK) members that the CEA (Europe) was successfully launched on 17th of December, 2008 in Oslo. The new association was intended as a major expansion of activities by the CEA (UK) and will be officially established as a non-profit and independent legal entity by the end of June 2009. The main objective of the CEA (Europe) is to promote scholarly exchanges and encourage academic leadership associated with the Chinese economic and business studies in Europe. To celebrate the establishment of our new organization, the Inaugural CEA (Europe) and 20th CEA (UK) Annual Conference will be held in Dublin, July 23-24, 2009. All CEA (UK) members will be offered free membership of CEA (Europe).
CEA (UK)
The CEA (UK) was launched in 1988 and has since become one of the leading organisations in Europe promoting research on China. Its past annual conferences have attracted wide-ranging attention from academic institutions, government organisations, banks and industries, alongside with the media in the UK and China. Prominent speakers have included ministers from the Chinese and British governments, the Chinese ambassadors, and eminent academic figures of international repute including Nobel laureates in economics. Papers from these conferences have been published in leading economics and business journals, in edited books, and in the CEA (UK)’s official journal, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, with Taylor & Francis as the publisher. Since 2001, the CEA (UK) has run parallel annual conferences in the UK and in one of the key universities in China. Selected presenters at the UCD conference 2009 will be invited to attend the parallel conference at Renmin University of China in early September 2009.

Jinghai Zheng                Liming Wang
Conference Chair           Chair of Local Organising Committee
President-elect              Secretary-General
CEA (Europe/UK)           CEA (Europe)