The Effects of Analyst-Auditor Connections on Analysts’ Performance and Auditor Switches
​We examine the effects of school ties between analysts and the signatory auditors of the companies they cover

Shuqing Luo, The University of Hong Kong

Friday, May 31, 2019 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Analysts, Signatory auditors

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Money and Credit: Theory and Applications
​We develop a theory of money and credit as competing payment instruments, then put it to work in applications

Liang Wang, University of Hawaii

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Money, Credit

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Liquidity and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation
​We find strong empirical evidence that economic fundamentals can well account for nominal exchange rate movements

Charles M. Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 | 3:30pm-5:00pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Liquidity, Exchange rates

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Contingency Effects of National Culture and Institutions on How Social Networks Influence Individual Creativity
While the role of social networks in organizations has received considerable attention, researchers have paid less attention to how national culture and institutional differences across countries influence how networks work

Carl Fey, Aalto University School of Business

Friday, May 17, 2019 | 10:00am-11:30am |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Contingency, Individual’s social network

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The Biases of Others
When social beliefs are systematically biased, understanding how people think about the biases of others is essential since biased beliefs about the beliefs of others and the anticipation of the same biased tendency in the thinking of others are directly

Kristof Madarasz, London School of Economics

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Biases

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Long-Term Asset Management and Asset Pricing
I will talk about Duesenberry s theory of consumption and propose a formal model of the theory

Hyeng Keun Koo, Ajou University

Wednesday, May 9, 2019 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Asset management, Asset pricing

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The Effects of Legalizing Open Market Share Repurchases: International Evidence
To causally identify the effects of legalizing the open market share repurchases on firm value and behaviors, we construct a unique dataset of 38 countries’ deregulation laws and utilize the yearly variation across the international markets on the restr

Zigan Wang, The University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Share repurchases, Firm value, Firm behavior, Cash holding, Payout policy

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Do Proprietary Costs Deter Insider Trading?
Stock markets infer insiders’ private information from their trades as prices react to insider trade disclosures

Lyungmae Choi, City University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Proprietary costs, Insider trading

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Focused and Ambidextrous Catch-Up Strategies of Emerging Economy Multinationals
Many emerging economy multinationals (EMNEs) conduct asset-seeking foreign direct investment as a strategy to catch up to global market leaders

Yi Li, University of Sydney

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Emerging economy multinationals

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Optimal Investment, Heterogeneous Consumption and the Best Time for Retirement
In this talk we discuss an optimal investment and consumption problem with heterogeneous consumption of basic and luxury goods, together with the choice of time for retirement

Harry Zheng, Imperial College

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Optimal investment, Heterogeneous consumption

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