Front End Planning of New Product Development Projects
Conventional wisdom suggests that a well-planned and organized launch can improve the probability of success of new product development

Avraham Shtub, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Front end, Product development project

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Standardizing the Giant: Mitigating Longevity Risk in China Through Capital Markets Solutions
As the annuity market in China develops, the Chinese insurance industry is increasingly exposed to longevity risk

Chan Wai Sum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: C-ROSS, Index-based longevity hedges, Longevity risk, Multi-population mortality models, Securitization

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Banks VS Fintech –Who Will Win in 2025?
What are recent trends in banking? Are Chinese banks and Fintech companies significant on a global scale?

Petr Teplý, Charles University in Prague

Monday, September 12, 2016 | 7:00pm-8:30 pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Banks, Fintech

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The Evolution of European Union (EU) and “Brexit” (The United Kingdom leaving the EU): Implications for China, the US and the World
​On June 23, 2016, the citizens of The United Kingdom voted to approve Brexit: the exiting of Great Britain and the rest of the UK from the European Union

Eydis Olsen, Drexel University

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: EU, Brexit

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Rethinking Self-Dealing and the Fairness Test: A Law and Economics Framework for Internal Transactions in Corporate Groups
In the controlling shareholder ownership, tunneling (i e , wealth transfer from a corporation to a controlling shareholder) is a prevailing business practice

Sang Yop Kang, Peking University

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 | 2:00 – 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

Keywords: Self-Dealing and the fairness test, Law and economics framework, Internal transactions

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Bank Equity Capital and Risk-taking Behavior: The Effect of Competition
We examine how the relationship between bank equity capital and risk taking changes in the presence of other risk-mitigating devices such as increased competi- tion in the banking market

Kuncheng Zheng, Northeastern University

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 | 2:00 – 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

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Time Varying Correlations and Casualties between Stock and Foreign Exchange Markets: Evidence from China, Japan and Korea
This paper examines the time varyingrelationship between stock and foreign exchange markets for China, Japan and Korea for the period Jan 2005 to Nov 2013

Young K. Park, Sungkyunkwan University

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

Keywords: Conditional Correlations , FX and stock markets, Granger Casuality, Casuality Reversals, Markox Regime Sgifting

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Endogenous Credit Constraints and Household Portfolio Choices
In this paper we develop a consumption and portfolio selection model for a household with borrowing constraints endogenized by limited enforcement of debt repayment

Kyoung Jin Choi, University of Calgary

Monday, June 20, 2016 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

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Banks Interconnectivity and Leverage
In the period that preceded the 2008 crisis, US nancial intermediaries have become more leveraged (measured as the ratio of assets over equity) and interconnected (mea- sured as the share of liabilities held by other nancial intermediaries)

Alessandro Barattieri, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

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An Experimental Study of the Competitive Saving Motive
We use a series of laboratory experiments to study the hypothesis of the competitive saving motive proposed by Wei and Zhang (2011) and Du and Wei (2013)

Binglin Gong, Fudan University

Monday, June 13 2016 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |Room 337, HSBC Business School

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