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Past Economics Seminars

Year
How Does Block Ownership by Institutions Affect Corporate Governance? Evidence from the Valuation of a Firm’s Cash Holdings
Dec 17 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Jay Wang of University of Oregon
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Equities' Exposures to Currencies: Beyond the loglinear model
Dec 11 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Piet Sercu of K.U.Leuven
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Prime Broker-Level Comovement in Hedge Fund Returns: Information or Contagion?
Dec 10 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Byoung Kang of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Monetary Transmission and Dynamic Provisioning through the Lens of Loan Loss Reserve on Credit Extension
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Dec 9 (Mon), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Simon H. Kwan of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Venue
G5-133, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Robust Selection of Rationalizability
space
Dec 5 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Yi-Chun Chen of National University of Singapore
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Barriers to Health and The Poverty Trap
Dec 3 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Yin-Chi Wang of Chinese University of Hong Kong
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Big Fish in Small Pond: Institutional Holding of Penny Stocks
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Nov 25 (Mon), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. George J. Jiang of Washington State University
Venue
G5-132, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Investor Trading Behavior around Geopolitical Events: Evidence from South Korea
space
Nov 21 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Young Han Kim of Nanyang Technological University
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Providing Protection or Misaligning Incentives? The Effects of Labor Unions on Innovation
Nov 19 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Xuan Tian
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Family Firms, Antitakeover Provisions, and Costs of Bank Financing
space
Nov 14 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Hyun-seung Na of City University of Hong Kong
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
CityU Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Myron Scholes, 1997 Nobel Laureate
space
Nov 13 (Wed), 2013
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue
Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room
Details All are welcome
Common Factors in Stock Market Seasonalities
Nov 12 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Matti Keloharju of Aalto University School of Business, CEPR and IFN
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
An Economic Investigation of Linguistic Differences: Theory and Experiment
space
Nov 6 (Wed), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Xiaojian Zhao of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Venue
G5-137, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Sovereigns Versus Banks: Credit, Crises, And Consequences
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Oct 31 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Moritz Schularick of University of Bonn
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Hilbert Transform Methods for Options Valuation
Oct 29 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Liming Feng of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Volatility Risk Premia and Exchange Rate Predictability
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Oct 24 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Della Corte Pasquale
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Testing for Linear and Nonlinear Predictability of Stock Returns
space
Oct 23 (Wed), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Pentti Saikkonen of University of Helsinki
Venue
Y5-202, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Did going public impair Moody’s credit ratings?
Oct 22 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Simi Kedia of Rutgers Business School
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Macroeconomic Risks and Asset Pricing: Evidence from a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model
space
Oct 17 (Thu), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Erica Lai
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Investor Horizon Clientele and IPO Underpricing
Oct 15 (Tue), 2013
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker
Dr. Zhang Lei of Nanyang Technological University
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Partial Insurance in China: the Data Part
space
Oct 10 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Zheng Yu of City University of Hong Kong
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Economic Integration and Structural Change
Oct 8 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Jean Imbs of Paris School of Economics
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Does Takeover Pressure Deter Corporate Investment? Evidence from State Anti-takeover Legislations
space
Sep 30 (Mon), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Qiang Kang of Florida International University
Venue
B5-121, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Firm Heterogeneity, Trade, Multinationals, and Growth: A Quantitative Evaluation
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Sep 26 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Tommy T. Wu of Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Governance through Threat: Does Short Selling Improve Internal Governance?
space
Sep 19 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Hong Zhang of INSEAD
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA
Sep 17 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Lorenzo Caliendo of Yale University and NBER
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Corporate Liquidity Dynamics - Empirics and Modeling
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Sep 12 (Thu), 2013
12:45pm - 2:15pm
Speaker
Dr. Andrew Carverhill of City University of Hong Kong
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Sex Discrimination and Female Top Managers: Evidence from China
space
Sep 5 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Huasheng Gao of Nanyang Technological University
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Self-Regulation of Enforcement: Evidence From Investor-Broker Disputes at the NASD
Sep 3 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Jiro E. Kondo of McGill University
Venue
G5-317, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Enhanced mean-variance portfolios - A controlled integration of quantitative return estimates
Aug 20 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Lars Kaiser of University of Liechtenstein
Venue
G7534, CHY Multimedia Studio, Green Zone, Level 7, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
"An Academic Economist and an Economic Policy Adviser" by Prof. Gregory Chow, Princeton University
space
Aug 15 (Thu), 2013
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue
Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong
Aug 15 (Thu), 2013
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue
Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong
Details All are welcome
Why is the Amihud (2002) Illiquidity Measure Priced?
space
Aug 15 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Tao Shu of University of Georgia
Venue
G5-134, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Creditor Governance through Loan-to-Loan and Loan-to-Own
Aug 13 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Kai Li of University of British Columbia
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Credit Policy as Fiscal Policy
Jul 23 (Tue), 2013
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker
Dr. Deborah Lucas of MIT Sloan School of Management
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Organization of Health Care Services
Jul 9 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Albert Ching-To Ma of Boston University
Venue
G5-315, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Do Hedge Funds Exploit Rare Disaster Concerns?
space
Jul 8 (Mon), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. George Gao of Cornell University
Venue
G5-315, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Competition, Gatekeeping, and Health Care Access
space
Jun 27 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Albert Ching-To Ma of Boston University
Venue
G5-131, Green Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Liquidity Premium in the Eye of the Beholder: An Analysis of the Clientele Effect in the Corporate Bond Market
space
May 23 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Tong Yao of University of Iowa
Venue
B5-307, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Non-executive Employee Stock Options and Coprorate Innovation
space
May 14 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Xin Chang, Simba of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Venue
B4701, Blue Zone, Level 4, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Invisible Cost of Short Selling
space
May 9 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Yu Zheng of City University of Hong Kong
Venue
B5-307, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Sell-Side Analysts' Responses to Mutual Fund Trading Pressure
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May 2 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Kelsey D. Wei of University of Texas at Dallas
Venue
B5-307, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Tug-of-War: Incentive Alignment in Securitization and Loan Performance
space
Apr 25 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Zhao Feng of The University of Texas at Dallas
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Merger Negotiations with Stock Market Feedback
Apr 23 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Sandra Betton of John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Rethinking Directed Technical Change with Endogenous Market Structure
Apr 16 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Lei Ji of Shanghai School of Economics and Finance
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response
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Apr 11 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Wooyoung Lim of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
On the Mergers and Acquisitions of Mutual Fund Families: The Determinants and Subsequent Impact on Fund Performance
Apr 9 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Jiang Luo of Nanyang Technological University
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Mar 27 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Ludo Visschers of Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Venue
G7534, Green Zone, Level 7, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Human Capital Loss in Corporate Bankruptcy
Mar 25 (Mon), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Si Li of Wilfrid Laurier University
Venue
G7534, Green Zone, Level 7, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Governance through Trading: Does Institutional Trading Discipline Empire Building and Earnings Management?
space
Mar 21 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Tse-chun Lin of The University of Hong Kong
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Debt, Labor Markets and the Creation and Destruction of Firms
Mar 5 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Andres Almazan of University of Texas at Austin
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Call Your Clients First: An Examination of How Analysts Add Value to Their Fund Clients
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Mar 4 (Mon), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Lei Xie of Yale University
Venue
G5-132, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Effective Endowment, Trade and Wages
Mar 1 (Fri), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Xiaoping Chen of Boston College
Venue
Y5-404, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Family Planning Policies in China
Feb 20 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Tianran Dai of Brown University
Venue
Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Cities and Product Variety
Feb 18 (Mon), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Nathan Schiff of University of British Columbia
Venue
Y5-404, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt
Feb 6 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Xuan Tam of University of Cambridge
Venue
Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Volatility Uncertainty, Time Decay, and Option Bid-Ask Spreads
Feb 5 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. PeiLin Hsieh of Cornell University
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
How Monitoring Affects the Structure of CEO Equity-Based Compensation
Feb 4 (Mon), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Fan Yu of University of Washington
Venue
B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
What Is the Maximum Return Predictability Permitted by Asset Pricing Models?
Feb 1 (Fri), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Dashan Huang of Washington University, St. Louis
Venue
Y5-403, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Does Option Trading Convey Stock Price Information?
Jan 31 (Thu), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Jianfeng Hu of City University of New York
Venue
B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Estimating a Spatial Autoregressive Model with an Endogenous Spatial Weight Matrix
Jan 30 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Xi Qu of The Ohio State University
Venue
B5-209, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Modeling China’s Macro-economy
Jan 29 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Prof. Gregory Chow of Princeton University
Venue
Y5-204, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
In Support of the TRIPs Agreement
Jan 28 (Mon), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Amanda Jakobsson of Stockholm School of Economics
Venue
G4302, Green Zone, Level 4, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
The Costs of Being Private in the Public Debt Market
Jan 25 (Fri), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Jessica Yuqian Wang of University of Texas Dallas
Venue
B5-118, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Inventory Accumulation, Cash Flow, and Corporate Investment
Jan 24 (Thu), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Kirak Kim of Arizona State University
Venue
Y5-205, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Reputation, Volatility and Performance Persistence
Jan 23 (Wed), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Ms. Yi Li of Princeton University
Venue
Y5-203, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Decomposing Globalization
Jan 22 (Tue), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Dr. Eliza Wu of University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
Assessing the Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases in a Zero-Interest-Rate Environment through the Lens of DSGE and VAR Models
Jan 21 (Mon), 2013
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker
Ms. Han Chen of University of Pennsylvania
Venue
B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
On Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization: Improving Performance Through Better Use of Hedging Relations
Jan 18 (Fri), 2013
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker
Dr. Yan Xu of University of Rhode Island
Venue
B5-420, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
A Structural Modeling Approach for Network Formation and Social Interactions – with Applications to Students’ Friendship Choices and Selectivity on Activities
Jan 17 (Thu), 2013
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Speaker
Mr. Chih-Sheng Hsieh of Ohio State University
Venue
B5-309, Blue Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome
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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Jan 10 (Thu), 2013
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Speaker
Dr. George Panayotov of Georgetown Univeristy
Venue
Y5-406, Yellow Zone, Level 5, Academic 1
Details All are welcome