We are excited to announce the 2025 MRS International Risk Conference, taking place in Boston, Massachusetts from July 24 to 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.
The China Finance Review International (CFRI), Sawyer Business School of Suffolk University, and Modern Risk Society (MRS) co-organize this conference. Our sponsors include the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the Global Association for Risk Professionals (GARP), and the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. This conference was known as the “CFRI & CIRF Conference”.
Conference website: https://www.globalmrs.org
The conference aims to promote research broadly related to global financial risk management. 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
- Audit risk, litigation risk, and regulation risk
- Banking and bank risk management
- Behavioral finance and risk management
- Climate risk, catastrophic risk, and rare disasters
- Corporate disclosure, financial and non-financial reporting, and sustainability reporting
- Corporate finance and governance
- Credit risk and liquidity risk
- Cryptocurrency risk and reward
- Cyber risk and information system 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
Keynote Speakers
- Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT, 2024 Economics Nobel Prize Winner
- Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School
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.
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.
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
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 dorm
To be updated
Contacts of Conference Affairs
Susan Loos, Suffolk University, susan.loos@suffolk.edu
Huixia Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University，luhuixia@sjtu.edu.cn