The Conference is jointly organized by the Center for Asian Financial Markets, HKUST; Cheung Kong GSB; and the International Review of Finance.

Top academics from North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific will present their research on various aspects of global market integration and financial crises, with a particular focus on the ongoing global financial crisis. Several of the papers presented will appear in a special issue of the International Review of Finance, co-edited by Michael Lemmon and Steven Ongena.

 The following is the list of speakers who are scheduled to present or discuss papers at the conference: Franklin Allen (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), James R. Brown (Iowa State University), Henry Cao (Cheung Kong GSB), Elena Carletti (European University Institute), Sudipto Dasgupta (HKUST), Sankar De (Indian School of Business), Jie Gan (HKUST), Florian Heider (European Central Bank), Jennifer Huang (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Deniz Igan (International Monetary Fund), Charles Kahn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Michael Lemmon (Univ. of Utah), Laura Liu (HKUST), Darius Miller (Southern Methodist University), Ulrike  Neyer (Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf), Steven Ongena (Tilburg University), Andrey Pavlov (University of Pennsylvania), Joao Santos (Federal Reserve Bank, New York), Susan Wachter (University of Pennsylvania), Jan Wenzelburger (Keele University),  Clas Wihlborg (Copenhagen Business School), Rida Zaidi (Fitch Ratings).