Department of Economics & Finance
College of Business - City University of Hong Kong AACSB International EQUIS - European Quality Improvement System

Past Events: Academic Research Seminars

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Non-executive Employee Stock Options and Coprorate Innovation
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14 May, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Xin Chang, Simba of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Venue: B4701, Blue Zone, Level 4, Academic 1
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The Invisible Cost of Short Selling
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9 May, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Yu Zheng of City University of Hong Kong
Venue: B5-307, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Sell-Side Analysts' Responses to Mutual Fund Trading Pressure
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2 May, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Kelsey D. Wei of University of Texas at Dallas
Venue: B5-307, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Tug-of-War: Incentive Alignment in Securitization and Loan Performance
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25 April, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Zhao Feng of The University of Texas at Dallas
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Merger Negotiations with Stock Market Feedback
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23 April, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Sandra Betton of John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Rethinking Directed Technical Change with Endogenous Market Structure
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16 April, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Lei Ji of Shanghai School of Economics and Finance
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response
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11 April, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Wooyoung Lim of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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On the Mergers and Acquisitions of Mutual Fund Families: The Determinants and Subsequent Impact on Fund Performance
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9 April, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Jiang Luo of Nanyang Technological University
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
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27 March, 2013 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Ludo Visschers of Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Venue: G7534, Green Zone, Level 7, Academic 1
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Human Capital Loss in Corporate Bankruptcy
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25 March, 2013 (Monday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Si Li of Wilfrid Laurier University
Venue: G7534, Green Zone, Level 7, Academic 1
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Governance through Trading: Does Institutional Trading Discipline Empire Building and Earnings Management?
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21 March, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Tse-chun Lin of The University of Hong Kong
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Debt, Labor Markets and the Creation and Destruction of Firms
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5 March, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Andres Almazan of University of Texas at Austin
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Call Your Clients First: An Examination of How Analysts Add Value to Their Fund Clients
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4 March, 2013 (Monday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Lei Xie of Yale University
Venue: G5-132, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Effective Endowment, Trade and Wages
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1 March, 2013 (Friday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Xiaoping Chen of Boston College
Venue: Y5-404, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Family Planning Policies in China
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20 February, 2013 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Tianran Dai of Brown University
Venue: Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Cities and Product Variety
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18 February, 2013 (Monday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Nathan Schiff of University of British Columbia
Venue: Y5-404, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt
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6 February, 2013 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Xuan Tam of University of Cambridge
Venue: Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Volatility Uncertainty, Time Decay, and Option Bid-Ask Spreads
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5 February, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. PeiLin Hsieh of Cornell University
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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How Monitoring Affects the Structure of CEO Equity-Based Compensation
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4 February, 2013 (Monday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Fan Yu of University of Washington
Venue: B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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What Is the Maximum Return Predictability Permitted by Asset Pricing Models?
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1 February, 2013 (Friday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Dashan Huang of Washington University, St. Louis
Venue: Y5-403, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Does Option Trading Convey Stock Price Information?
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31 January, 2013 (Thursday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Jianfeng Hu of City University of New York
Venue: B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Estimating a Spatial Autoregressive Model with an Endogenous Spatial Weight Matrix
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30 January, 2013 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Xi Qu of The Ohio State University
Venue: B5-209, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Modeling China’s Macro-economy
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29 January, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Prof. Gregory Chow of Princeton University
Venue: Y5-204, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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In Support of the TRIPs Agreement
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28 January, 2013 (Monday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Amanda Jakobsson of Stockholm School of Economics
Venue: G4302, Green Zone, Level 4, Academic 1
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The Costs of Being Private in the Public Debt Market
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25 January, 2013 (Friday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Jessica Yuqian Wang of University of Texas Dallas
Venue: B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Inventory Accumulation, Cash Flow, and Corporate Investment
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24 January, 2013 (Thursday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Kirak Kim of Arizona State University
Venue: Y5-205, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Reputation, Volatility and Performance Persistence
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23 January, 2013 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Yi Li of Princeton University
Venue: Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Decomposing Globalization
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22 January, 2013 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Eliza Wu of University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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Assessing the Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases in a Zero-Interest-Rate Environment through the Lens of DSGE and VAR Models
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21 January, 2013 (Monday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Speaker:
Ms. Han Chen of University of Pennsylvania
Venue: B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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On Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization: Improving Performance Through Better Use of Hedging Relations
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18 January, 2013 (Friday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Speaker:
Dr. Yan Xu of University of Rhode Island
Venue: B5-420, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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A Structural Modeling Approach for Network Formation and Social Interactions – with Applications to Students’ Friendship Choices and Selectivity on Activities
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17 January, 2013 (Thursday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker:
Mr. Chih-Sheng Hsieh of Ohio State University
Venue: B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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In Search of Explanation for the Predictive Ability of the Baltic Dry Index for Global Stock Returns, Commodity Returns, and Global Economic Activity
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10 January, 2013 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker:
Dr. George Panayotov of Georgetown Univeristy
Venue: Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
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All are welcome