On November 20, 2018, the first high-end forum on economics was held in the 133 lecture hall of the main building. The forum was hosted by the School of Management and Economics and undertaken by the Dept. of Applied Economics. Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, Visiting Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology, Li Wei, First Class Professor of Renmin University of China, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar, Yang Ruilong, Associate Dean of School of Finance and Finance, Renmin University of China, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar Zhang Chengsi, Lu Yi, a special professor of Changjiang Scholars at Tsinghua University, attended the forum and gave a keynote speech. Dean Wei Yiming, Party Secretary Wang Weihua, and more than 100 teachers and students from the School of Management and Economics attended the forum.

　　This forum aims to strengthen academic exchanges, stimulate research inspiration, and promote the development of economic disciplines.

　　Professor Yang Ruilong pointed out in the keynote speech that we must pay attention to the problem of insufficient investment confidence in the private economy, eliminate the discrimination of ownership, and boost the investment confidence of private enterprises. Professor Li Wei introduced a new partial identification subnet method for teachers and students to avoid multiple possible equilibrium points under discrete games, and used this method to empirically test whether peers smoke or not in social networks impacts on smoking or not. Professor Zhang Chengsi's speech analyzed the mechanism affecting the financial investment behavior of non-financial companies in China. He pointed out that the financial investment behavior of non-financial enterprises in China is mainly driven by the risk ratio of fixed asset investment rather than capital profit-seeking behavior. Professor Lu Yi's speech considered the welfare effects of building a new highway and the role of production networks in measuring welfare improvements.