The Telegraph and Modern Banking Development (Online Seminar)
The Telegraph and Modern Banking Development

Yuchen XU, PHD Candidate, HKU

Wednesday, 25 March, 2020 | 2:00-3:30pm |Online

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Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Pricing(Online Seminar)
This paper studies an entrepreneur’s pricing strategy in a reward-based crowdfunding campaign under asymmetric quality information

Ehsan Bolandifar, PHBS

Wednesday, 10 June, 2020 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm Beijing Time |Online

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Knowledge Sharing on Online Platforms within Organizations: An Interactionist Examination from a Generalized Exchange Perspective
​Organizations are increasingly introducing online platforms to facilitate knowledge sharing within the organization

Chia-Huei Wu, University of Leeds

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |ZOOM

Keywords: Online platforms, Generalized exchange perspective

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Secret and Overt Information Acquisition in Financial Market(Online Seminar)
We develop a model to study the observability of investors information acquisition in financial markets

Liyan Yang, University of Toronto

Wednesday, 10 June, 2020 | 10:00am – 11:30am Beijing Time |Online

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When FinTech Meets Privacy: The Consequence of Personal Information Misuse in Debt Collection
​We examine the consequence of an intrusive debt-collection tactic, whereby delinquent borrowers’ social circles are targeted

Jun Yang, Indiana University

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 9:00am-10:30am |ZOOM

Keywords: Reciprocity, FinTech, Privacy, Debt Collection

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The Sensitivity of Trading to the Cost of Information
We document a decrease in price discovery following two events that increase data access costs

Robert I. Webb, University of Virginia

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 | 9:00am-10:30am |ZOOM

Keywords: Stock bubbles

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What is the Impact of Introducing a Parallel OTC Market? Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Interbank FX Market(Online Seminar)
We examine a rare change in market structure

Dong Lu, Renmin University of China

Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 | 10:00-11:30am Beijing Time |Online

Keywords: Market Structure; Over-the-Counter; Limit-Order Book, FX market

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Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Strategic Competition(Online Seminar)
This paper explains the value and profitability “anomalies” in stock returns across industries using a two-beta consumption-based model — a new general equilibrium framework with concentrated industries, consumer inertia, and strategic competition

Yan Ji, HKUST

Wednesday, 27 May, 2020 | 2:00Pm – 3:30Pm Beijing Time |Online

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Combating COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of SARS Imprint (Online Seminar)
Our findings suggest that the imprint of the early experience of similar viruses is a fundamental mechanism underlying timely responses to COVID-19

Hong RU, Nanyang Technological University

Wednesday, 3 June | 10:00am – 11:30am |Online

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Delayed Crises and Slow Recoveries (Online Seminar)
This paper formalizes credit-driven financial crises as a Keynes’ game of musical chairs in a textbook stochastic growth model (RBC), speaking to Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis in a rational expectations framework

Xuewen Liu, HKU

Wednesday, 22 April, 2020 | 2:00-3:30pm Beijing Time |Online

Keywords: Credit extensions, Synchronization, Externality, Economic recoveries

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