The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte and the Wang Yana Institute for Studies in Economics at Xiamen University hosted an International Symposium on Risk Management and Derivatives July 4-6 in Xiamen, China.
Dr. Steven Ott, director of the Center for Real Estate and the John Crosland Jr. Professor of Real Estate, was a keynote speaker. Finance professors Richard Buttimer, Bill Sealey and Weidong Tian each chaired a session and served on the symposium planning committee. Finance Ph.D. student Xinde Zhang presented a paper, "Takeover, Agency Cost and Corporate Governance," co-written with Dr. Tian and Dr. Dolly King.
The mission of this international symposium on Risk Management and Derivatives is to bring together leading academic and industry experts in the fields of finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, and engineering to identify, quantify, and manage risk in derivatives portfolios.
In addition to the UNC Charlotte delegation, other top experts in finance and economics participated, representing universities in the U.S., Canada, Germany, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China.
Additional information on the symposium is available at wise.xmu.