Asset Growth Anomaly in Corporate Bond Market: A Decomposition Analysis
Bonds issued by high asset growth firms are better collaterized thus they are less likely to default This poten

Wenfeng Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 339, PHBS Building

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Grand Challenges and Local Beliefs: How Belief in Climate Change Relates to Greenhouse Gas Emissions in U.S. Manufacturing Facilities
We provide a theory of wage dispersion and involuntary unemployment based on optimal monopsony pricing A wage sc

Glen Dowell, Cornell University

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 | 9:00am – 10:30am |Room 335, PHBS Building / ZOOM

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Digital Connectivity, Climate Emergency, and Corona Pandemic: The Battle for Sustainability
We are currently facing an accelerating climate emergency and the worst public health epidemic in a hundred years

Graham Murdock, Loughborough University

Wednesday, Oct.27, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, PHBS Building

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Causal Reinforcement Learning: An Instrumental Variable Approach
In the standard data analysis framework, data is first collected (once for all), and then data analysis is carri

Ye Luo, Hong Kong University

Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 337, PHBS Building

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Firm Commitments
We provide a first empirical analysis of firm commitments to reduce their carbon emissions A growing fraction of

Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm |Room 339, PHBS Building / ZOOM

Keywords: Sustainability

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Managing Young Children’s Experience of Touchscreens
When touchscreens first appeared on tablets and smartphones the easier to use interface enabled very young childre

Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 9:00am – 10:30am |Room 335, PHBS Building / ZOOM

Keywords: Managing Young Children’s Experience of

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Faster Deliveries and Smarter Order Assignments for an On-Demand Meal Delivery Platform
The focus of this talk is to identify the underlying factors and develop an order assignment policy that can he

Ying Rong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm |Room 335, PHBS Building (onsite) / ZOOM

Keywords: Service Operations, Retail Operations, Operations in Emerging Business Models and Data-driven Optimization

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Investment in Human Capital under Endogenous Asymmetric Information
When is general training under-provided? We study this classic question in a model of a competitive labour market

Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 9:00am – 10:30am |Room 337, PHBS Buildings / ZOOM

Keywords: Managerial Economics, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics

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Digital Transitions of Local Press in China: Some Recent Findings
Two recent research projects will be shared in this seminar 1 Title: Making Un-news: News Aggregation in Local C

Angela (Dan) Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room 337, PHBS Building & Zoom Meeting

Keywords: Digital Journalism

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Currency Management by International Fixed Income Mutual Funds
Investments in international fixed income securities are exposed to significant currency risks We collect novel da

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 | 10:00am-11:30am | Room 339, PHBS Building & Zoom Meeting

Keywords: Investments, Retirement savings, and Taxation

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