CB awarded greatest number of GRF and ECS projects in the Business Studies panel
The Research Grants Committee (RGC) released the 2021/22 results of General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) on 30 June, awarding funding to 36 projects led by researchers at the College of Business.
The College received 35 grants in the Business Studies panel, including 26 GRFs and 9 ECSs. This number is the highest among the eight UGC-funded institutions.
The GRF aims to supplement universities’ own research support to researchers who have achieved or have the potential to achieve excellence while the ECS is intended to nurture junior academics and to prepare them for a career in education and research.
Professor Frank Chen, Dean of College of Business, said, “The encouraging results are testimony to the College’s effort in conducting interesting, insightful and impactful research projects of the highest quality. GRF and ECS success is one of the key performance indicators for research. I must thank my colleagues for their hard work and dedication to research excellence.”
List of the funded projects
| Principal Investigator | Dept | Project Title |
| Dr LU, Jinzhi | AC | Short-selling, discretionary accruals, and earnings management |
| Dr SUN, Stephen Teng | AC | Auditor Labor Market Mobility Constraints and Audit Outcomes: Evidence from Enforceability of Non-Compete Covenants |
| Dr WANG, Wenfeng | AC | Firms' Incentive to Meet Analyst Forecast and Hiring Decision: Evidence from Job Posting |
| Dr Zhu, Xindong | AC | PCAOB inspections and trade credit: International evidence |
| Dr CHOI, Hongseok | EF | Can Learning Reduce the Dark Matter in the Long-Run Risk Model? |
| Dr CUI, Liyuan | EF | Estimation and Inference of Large Dimensional Unobservable Dynamic Uncertainties |
| Dr DU, Jintao | EF | Does Money Really Talk: Heterogeneous Beliefs, Endogenous Wealth Distribution and Asset Pricing |
| Dr Han, Xu | EF | Shrinkage Estimation, Model Selection and Uniform Inference in Possibly Nonstationary SVARs with External Instruments |
| Dr HSHIEH, Shenje | EF | Long-Term R&D Impact of Human Capital Investments: An Examination of the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| Dr HUANG, Hanwei | EF | Trade, Migration, and Pandemics: the Effect of COVID-19 Containment Policies |
| Dr LI, Yunan | EF | The optimal selling mechanism in the takeover market |
| Dr LIU, Will Shuo | EF | Borrower Flexibility vs. Lender Protection: The Shadow Price of "Covenant-light" |
| Dr ROY, Nilanjan | EF | Dynamic Interactions, Information Transmission, and Asset Prices: Experiments |
| Dr WU, Di | EF | Inferring Expectation of Return in the Crash State with Option Data |
| Dr XU, Wenji | EF | Social Learning, Misperception, and Imperfect Information |
| Dr XU, Zhengyang | EF | Learning from Experience in the Foreign Exchange Market |
| Dr LU, Qinglian (Angela) | IS | IT Career under Market Contingency: Career Achievement, Firm Resilience, and Digital Entrepreneurship Post Market Crises |
| Dr XU, David Jingjun | IS | Do Job Applicants and HR Professionals Resist AI-Led Recruitment System, Why, and How to Mitigate? An Organizational Justice Perspective |
| Prof Wang, Weiquan | IS | App Innovation Strategies and Innovation Performance: A Perspective of Developer Brand Equity |
| Dr KIM, Kyoung Yong | MGT | All-or-None: The Curvilinear Effect of CEO Servant Leadership on Organizational Performance |
| Prof LU, Jane Wenzhen | MGT | Doing "Good" to Offset "Bad": The Moderating Role of Stakeholders |
| Dr DESPOTAKIS, Stylianos | MKT | The Effects of Microtargeting on Conversion Rates and the Role of Information Asymmetry |
| Dr Dong, Maggie Chuoyan | MKT | To Be Unified or Divergent? The Performance Implications of Information Variance Across Multiple E-Sellers Offering an Identical Product |
| Dr LI, Xi * | MKT | Price Nontransparency and Behavior-Based Pricing |
| Dr TAN, Yong-Chin | MKT | Examining the Impact of Product Leak Announcements on Online Buzz, Product Sales, and Firm Value |
| Dr ZHENG, Xu | MKT | When Multi-Unit Franchising Backfires: The Contingent Effects of Subgroup Configurations |
| Dr FENG, Guanhao | MS | Textual Analysis of Corporate Bond Market |
| Dr HE, Jingyu | MS | XBART: a novel tree-based machine learning framework for regression, classification and treatment effect estimation |
| Dr SUN, Zhankun | MS | Investigation of Fast-Track Routing Decisions and Its Impact in Hospital Emergency Departments |
| Dr TRIMBORN, Simon | MS | Network Structure Identification in Large-Scale Financial Systems |
| Dr WANG, Jianfu | MS | Information Technology and Routing Policies in Open-shop Healthcare Systems |
| Dr ZHOU, Zhixin ** | MS | Sparse Bipartite Graphs: Concentration, Regularization and Applications |
| Prof LIU, Guangwu | MS | Simulation methods for sensitivities of expectations with nested discontinuity |
| Prof LU, Ye | MS | An Approximation Scheme for a class of Operations Management Problem with an O(TK) Performance Bound |
| Prof Shum, Stephen Wan-Hang | MS | Supply Chain Management Under Consumer Panic Buying and Hoarding |
| Prof Yan, Houmin | MS | Stochastic and Dynamic Click-through and Sell-through Optimization: A Machine Learning and Optimal Control Approach |
* Dr. Li left CityU on 1 July 2021.
** Dr. Zhou applied to the Engineering panel.