Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring
We study a principal& 39;s joint design of optimal monitoring and compensation schemes to incentivize an agent by

Liang Dai, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337

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The Token-Effort Effect: How Minimal Redemption Effort Increases Price Promotion Effectiveness
This research documents how introducing redemption tasks requiring a token (i e , minimal) amount of effort—for in

Kuangjie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 339

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Why Don't the Young File for Bankruptcy?
We provide two explanations for why young people file fewer bankruptcies The first is that young people delay b

Guozhong Zhu, University of Alberta

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337

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The Golden Revolving Door: Hedging through Hiring Government Officials
Using both the onset of the US-China trade war in 2018 and the most recent Russia-Ukraine conflict and associate

Ling Cen, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Monday, September 25, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337

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Evolving Strategy Using Innovation Portfolios: A Field Intervention Study
Innovation portfolio management is the process of prioritizing resources spent on innovation projects The most wid

Christoph Loch & Haijian Si, PHBS & CJBS

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 2:00pm-3:30pm |Room335

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Is Electricity a Weak Link in Development?
This paper considers the case that electricity is a weak link in development, meaning that small productivity imp

Martin Shu, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337

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Econometric Learning: A Select Review
In this talk, I will start with the difference between econometrics and machine learning, then motivate why and

Chunrong Ai, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337

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Trading Under the Law of Small Numbers
We build a model of the law of small numbers (LSN)—the incorrect belief that even small samples represent the

Cameron Peng, London School of Economics and Political Science

Wednesday, Aug 30, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 339

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Acquiring Patents for Monopoly
The paper studies a possible "dark side " of patent trade in enhancing the market power of monopolists We explor

Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room 337, ZOOM

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Is Public Debt Arm’s Length? Evidence from Corporate Bond Purchases of Life Insurance Companies
We show that borrower-lender relationship is important for corporate bond financing and this relationship may influ

Ali Ozdagli, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm |Room339, ZOOM

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