Uncertainty Motivates Morality
We propose an uncertainty-motivated morality hypothesis whereby individuals behave more morally under uncertainty tha

Songfa Zhong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337

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Using Machine Learning to Generate Novel Insights: Culture, Creativity, and Innovation
What are the most important cultural values that shape individuals’ creativity and countries’ innovation?

Krishna Savani, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room335

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Extracting Efficiency from Chaos: Rider Behavior, Performance and Negative Externality in Dockless Bike Sharing Systems
In recent years, urban bike-sharing systems developed in two main forms: Dock-based systems that rely on fixed lo

Weiming Zhu, HKU Business School

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room335

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Option Mispricing and Alpha Portfolios
Relying on a latent factor model with time-varying dependence of systematic risk and mispricing on firm and optio

Junye Li, Fudan University

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 339

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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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