It’s Showtime! Conference Call Participation and Analysts’ Career Outcomes
We show that analysts who enjoy more connectivity with firms’ managers, or are seen as more skillful and enjoy more stature, are more successful in the labor market than peers from the same brokerage when their brokerages close

Ling Cen, University of Toronto-Scarborough

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Career outcomes, Analyst forecasts and recommendations, Earnings conference calls

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Inter-firm Patent Litigation and Innovation Competition
Using novel hand-collected patent litigation data from 2000-2006, we show that patent litigation has important financial and real impacts on firms

Seungjoon Oh, PHBS

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 | 12:00pm-1:00pm |Room 763, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Litigation, Innovation competition

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A Theory of Fintech
In this talk, I will give a brief overview of current academic research on Fintech by using tools from operations research and statistics

Steven Kou, National University of Singapore

Wednesday, September 6, 2017 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Fintech

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Who is More likely to Purchase in the Next Visit?
This study thus proposes to investigate the behavioral characteristics of visitors attracted to an ecommerce website by different types of displaying ads

Bin Zhu, The Ohio State University

Thursday, June 29, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Visitors, E-commerce

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Data Science in Action
Data Science has become one of the most rapidly growing interdisciplinary fields

Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, June 23, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 339, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Data science

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Strategy in Digital Economy
With the emergence of digital economy, an increasing number of firms are competing and operating based on digital computing technologies

Sali Li, University of South Carolina

Thursday, June 15, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 331, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Digital economy, Strategy

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Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India
A significant amount of resources is spent every year on the improvement of transportation infrastructure in developing countries

Jose Asturias, Georgetown University

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Transportation infrastructure, The golden quadrilateral of India

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Protectionism and the Business Cycle
We study the consequences of protectionism for economic fluctuations First, using data on tariffs and non-tariffs barriers, we present fresh evidence on the dynamic effects of an increase in trade barriers

Alessandro Barattieri, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Protectionism, Economic fluctuations

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The Dilemma of Moving Fast: The Antecedents and Consequences of Outside CEOs’ Early Action Plans
I examine whether the positive relationship between the amount of early action plans and post-succession investment analysts’ recommendation change is moderated by the outside new CEO’s prior experience

Xiwei Yi, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Thursday, May 25, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 331, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: CEO succession, CEOs’ early action plans

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How does the Medical Device Tax Affect firm R&D and Performance
This article examines how the excise tax affects firm research and development (R&D) investment and performance in the medical device industry

Daeyong Lee, PHBS

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | 12:00pm-1:00pm |Room 763, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: How does the Medical Device Tax Affect firm R&D and Performance

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