2015 - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning

We design an all-pay auction experiment in which we reveal the gender of the opponent Using this design, we find that women bid higher than men, but only when bidding against other women

Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen, David Ong, Roman M. Sheremeta

ARTICLE | Economics Letters | Vol. 137, 2015

Keywords: Experiments, All-pay auction, Competitiveness, Gender differences

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Real Estate Prices and Firm Borrowings: Micro Evidence from China

Real estate price appreciation can lessen firm’s financial constraint by increasing its collateral value This paper studies this channel by utilizing a large firm-level dataset during the 2000-2007 period on Chinese firms

Pu Chen, Chunyang Wang, Yangyan Liu

ARTICLE | China Economic Review | Vol. 36, 2015

Keywords: Real Estate Prices, Borrowings, Collateral effect

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Optimal Ring Size at First-Price Auctions

This paper studies the optimal-ring-size problem in a first-price auction environment, where a collusive ring center can endogenously choose the number of its members

Zhiyong Tu, Lan Ju

ARTICLE | Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE | Vol. 171, No. 4, 2015

Keywords: Optimal Ring Size, First-Price Auctions

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Who Wants to Adopt and Who Wants to be Adopted: A Sample of American Families and Sub-Saharan African Orphans

The debate between pro- and anti-international adoption advocates relies heavily on rhetoric and little on data analysis

Balding, Christopher*, Yan Feng, Atashband, A

ARTICLE | Health Policy and Planning | Vol.30, 2015

Keywords: Child mortality, Demographics, International adoption, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ownership and M&A Performance in a Transitional Economy: The Case of the Chinese Real Estate Industry

In a transitional economy such as China’s, when resources are unevenly distributed across different sectors, the disadvantaged sector may seek a growth path that bypasses resource constraints

Hongyan Yang, Jing Ru, Ting Ren

ARTICLE | Management and Organization Review | Vol. 11, No. 4, 2015

Keywords: M&A performance, Market environment, Ownership, Real estate industry, Transitional economy

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Product Market Competition and the Value of Innovation: Evidence from US Patent Data

This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and the market value of innovation using firm-level patent data of US firms over the period 1977-2005

Hyun Joong Im, Young Joon Park, Janghoon Shon

ARTICLE | Economics Letters | Vol. 137, 2015

Keywords: Innovation, Product market competition, Value of innovation, Tariff cuts

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Wall Street Rewards CEOs Who Talk About Their Strategies

Conventional wisdom says investors dislike uncertainty A CEO succession presents a time of enormous corporate uncertainty — and thus a time when investors may become especially skittish

Richard Whittington, Basak Yakis-Douglas, Kwangwon Ahn

ARTICLE | Havard Business Review | December 28, 2015

Keywords: CEOs, Strategies

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How Local Financial Market Imperfection and Exchange Rates Relate to Decisions to Export

Theoretic and empirical studies argue that the differences in financial mar- ket development contribute to varying export levels in international trade

Dingming Liu, Pu Chen*, Chunyang Wang

ARTICLE | Annals of Economics and Finance | No. 2, Vol. 16, 2015

Keywords: Financial market imperfection, Exchange rates, Export

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Education and Income Attraction: An Online Dating Field Experiment

Prior studies have found a robust correlation in the education of dating and married couples

David Ong

ARTICLE | Applied Economics | 2015

Keywords: Education, Online dating, Field experiment, Gender, Differences, Matching, Marriage

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Child Gender, Intergenerational Kinship and Parental Labor Market Outcomes

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of child gender on parental labor market outcomes

Qing Wang

ARTICLE | Review of Development Economics | Vol. 19, 2015

Keywords: Child Gender, Intergenerational Kinship, Parental Labor Market Outcomes

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