Australia-China Free Trade Agreement: Econometric Modeling and Policy in Trade, Investment and Economic Integration
April. 17th -18th, Beijing, China

　　The conference is sponsored by the Center for Applied Statistics (CAS) of Renmin University of China (RUC), School of Statistics of RUC, Center for Strategic Studies of Victoria University of Australia and Department of Statistics of Capital University of Economics and Business, and will take place in Beijing on April 17th ~ 18th , 2006. Scholars and experts from Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and China will be present at the conference, and this conference is to be held in English.

Topics:

1. Empirical study on policies and development of Australia-China Free Trade Agreement
2. Empirical study on policies and development of trade and investment between China and Australia
3. Empirical study on the regional service sector development and policies in Australia and China
4. Empirical study on the regional development and policies in and China
5. Statistical modeling and analysis on regional development

　　The papers to be presented at the conference are supposed to be submitted before March 18th, 2006 and those by Chinese authors are supposed to be both in Chinese and in English. The topics of papers may be selected freely.

　　Conference contacts:

　　Prof. Zhao Yanyun,
　　Tel: 86-10-82509087, 86-10-82509086
　　Email: cas-kriu@ruc.edu.cn, yanyun_zhao@sina.com.cn
　　Prof. Ji Hong
　　Tel: 86-10-83952120, 86-10-83952118
　　Email: jihong@cueb.edu.cn

Center for Applied Statistics, RUC (Key Research Institute in Universities of China)
School of Statistics, RUC
Center for Strategic Studies of Victoria University of Australia
Department of Statistics, CUEB