CB achieves GRF and ECS Research Funding Success
4 Jul 2023
The Research Grants Committee (RGC) announced the 2023/24 results of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) on 30 June. A total of 34 projects led by researchers at the College of Business, including 24 GRFs and 10 ECSs, were awarded funding in the Business Studies Panel.
Professor Jeong Bon Kim, Dean of the College of Business, said, “GRF and ECS success is one of the key performance indicators for research work. I wish to thank all participating colleagues for their hard work this year, and my hearty congratulations to the awardees for their excellent results!”
| Principal Investigator | Dept | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. SAHOO, Satish | AC | Do Analysts Understand Mergers and Acquisitions? Evidence from Analyst Reports |
| Prof. YEUNG, Kelvin Kwok Shing | AC | Detecting Financial Misreporting: An Application of Transdermal Optical Imaging |
| Prof. YU, Yangxin | AC | Audit Partners with Outside Appointments and Audit Quality |
| Prof. CHOI, Jin Kyung | AC | How does ESG rating agencies shape ESG disclosure and ESG outcome? Evidence from Refinitiv’s ESG rating methodology update |
| Prof. SUN, Stephen Teng | AC | Product Market Implications of Corporate Accounting Fraud: Evidence from Scanner Data |
| Prof. YEE, Ha Yoon | AC | Disclosure Strategies to Win The War for Talent: Evidence from LinkedIn |
| Prof. Wu, Xueping | EF | A Comprehensive Analysis of the Externalities of Corporate Political Connections: Evidence from Close Elections |
| Prof. WU, Di | EF | A new measure of crisis risk and its pricing in the time series and cross-section of stock returns |
| Prof. QIU, Zhesheng | EF | Fighting the Inflation Caused by Foreign Price Shocks |
| Prof. QI, Yaxuan | EF | Does Automation Make the Workplace Safer? |
| Prof. CUI, Liyuan | EF | Estimating and Testing Time Variation Modeling Misspecification |
| Prof. HAN, Xu | EF | Estimation and Testing of Structural Changes in Possibly Misspecified High-Dimensional Factor Models: A Singularity Approach |
| Prof. HU, Audrey Xianhua | EF | Post Pandemic Social Division and Conflict: Theory and Experiments |
| Prof. BANG, Minji | EF | Access and Attitudes to the Local News Media in the Digital Economy |
| Prof. BEDDOCK, Arthur Nicolas Georges Michel | EF | Belief skewness and the stock market |
| Prof. HU, Guanliang | EF | Impact of China–U.S. Trade Tensions on China’s Exports and Employment |
| Prof. LIU, Qing | EF | Designing Incentives for Teams |
| Prof. LIU, Jinge | EF | Bringing Context to Financial Content Analysis |
| Prof. ZHOU, Ying | EF | Workforce Aging and Structural Shift |
| Prof. LIU, Junming | IS | Beyond Cognitive Appraisal: An AI Delegation Framework for Human-AI Collaborative Intelligence |
| Prof. KWON, Juhee | IS | Suppliers' Strategic Shifts by an Online Platform in a Fresh Product Market: Evidence from a Flower Marketplace |
| Prof. LAU, Raymond Yiu Keung | IS | Multimodal Data Augmentation-enhanced Deep Learning Framework for Corporate Credit Risk Assessment |
| Prof. SIA, Choon-ling | IS | Enhancing Diagnosticity and Credibility of Healthcare Information in Websites through Integrating Multiple Information Sources: Impact of Prior Beliefs and Consistency of Different Information Sources |
| Prof. LAM, Chak Fu | MGT | Overcoming cultural status disadvantage in multicultural teams: The role of leader global identity |
| Prof. KOO, Haeyoung | MGT | The Role of Family Firm Status in Target Firm Response to Hedge Fund activism: the Socioemotional Wealth Perspective |
| Prof. SPENCER, Bryan Joseph | MGT | How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Work and Professions: The Case of Doctors and Medical Trainees in the Greater Bay Area |
| Prof. ZHAO, Huazhong | MKT | Defensive Response to Negative Reviews in P2P Markets |
| Prof. SONG, Camilla Eunyoung | MKT | Are Smartphones Always Bad for Our Brain? The Positive Effect of Taking a Break with a Smartphone on Creativity |
| Prof. XU, Zibin | MKT | Biased Recommendation with Superior Knowledge and Implications of Data Compliance |
| Prof. SU, Lei | MKT | It Is Too Early to Say “Thank You”: Pre-Action Appreciation Backlashes Prosocial Behaviors |
| Prof. FENG, Guanhao | MS | Time-Varying Coefficient Modeling for Factor Selection in Asset Pricing |
| Prof. LI, Menglong | MS | S-Convexity and Market Equilibrium |
| Prof. LIU, Guangwu | MS | Adaptive Sampling Methods for Ranking and Estimation Problems |
| Prof. LI, Hanwei | MS | Demand Estimation and Price Optimization for Substitutable Products |