Online Word-of-Mouth Transmission and Beyond: An Integrative Model at the Individual Level
With the ongoing development of the Internet and Internet-related technologies, online consumer-to-consumer (C-to-C) word-of-mouth (WOM) communications have become increasingly widespread and substantial (Berger 2014; King, Racherla, and Bush 2014)

Cuiping Chen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Word-of-mouth marketing, Consumer-to-consumer marketing, C-to-C marketing, Online word-of-mouth transmission

Keywords: Word-of-mouth marketing, Consumer-to-consumer marketing, C-to-C marketing, Online word-of-mouth tra

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Institutions, Markets and Growth: A Theory of Comparative Corporate Governance
Two different financial systems with some opposing features have evolved in the advanced economies, namely the insider system and the outsider system

Kose John, New York University

Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Institutions, Markets and growth, Comparative corporate governance

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A Theory of Optimal Institutional Trading
I develop a theory of optimal trading by an institutional trader who receives a parent order (i e , an overall trading request) from a fund manager to buy a specific quantity of a particular stock over a specified time horizon

Craig W. Holden, Indiana University

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | 10:30am–12:00pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Optimal trading strategy, Dynamic limit order book, Liquidity, Order flow

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Financial Sector Interconnectedness and Monetary Policy Transmission
We document that in the U S , the share of financial assets that have a direct counterpart in the financial system has increased by between 15 8 and 21 8 percentage points during the period 1952-2011

Alessandro Barattieri, ESG UQAM

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Financial sector interconnectedness, Monetary policy transmission mechanism

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The Political Economy of Making an Authoritarian Constitution: The Case of China
This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the rational of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s constitutional transformation from totalitarian to authoritarian

Chenggang Xu, University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Political Economy, Totalitarian constitution

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Organizations as Communities: The Rise (and fall) of Community Capital in Chinese Firms
The phenomenon that many Chinese business organizations incorporate social function units into their structures and employee welfare into their practice, surprisingly, received insufficient attention in organization studies

Yi Han, Peking University

Monday, June 1, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Organizations, Community capital, Chinese firms

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Seasoned Equity Offerings and Agency Problems: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China
We find that agency problems become more severe following seasoned equity offerings We examine publicly-listed Chinese firms over the period 2000 to 2012, which contains exogenous regulatory shocks on the eligibility of SEOs

Yao Lu, Tsinghua University

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Equity issuance, Agency problems, Corporate investment, Managerial compensation, Tunneling

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Competitive Difference Analysis of One-Way Trading with Limited Information
How to buy or sell a certain amount of goods facing uncertain price fluctuations within a given time period? We

Yingjie Lan, Peking University

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 | 3:30pm–5:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: One-way trading, Competitive difference analysis, Multistage game, Online algorithm

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Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk under Pegged Currency Arrangements - Evidence from China
Existing research found that Asian-Pacific firms experienced more widespread and significant exposure to foreign exchange rate risk than firms in industrialized economies

Xiuping Hua, Nottingham University Business School China

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Pricing of exchange rate risk, Pegged currency arrangements

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Online Shopping Intermediaries: The Strategic Design of Search Environments
An online shopping intermediary is an internet platform on which consumers and third-party sellers transact

Lin Liu, University of Central Florida

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Online shopping, Search environment

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