2015 - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

R&D Competence and Firm Growth

We examine the effects of heterogeneous firm technological competence, and industry R&D uncertainty and costs on f

Seungjoon Oh, PHBS

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | 12:00pm–1:00pm | Room 763, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: R&D Competence, Firm Growth

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Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance:Evidence From the 2003 Tax Cut

Evidence on the causal effect of managerial ownership on firm performance is elusive due to a lack of within-fir

Teng Sun, Stanford University

Monday, April 20, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Firm valuation, Director and officer ownership, Corporate Governance, Institutional ownership concentration

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How Costs and Heterogeneous Consumer Price Sensitivity Interact with Add-On Pricing

Even if firms have the capability to pre-commit to not adopting add-on pricing, we show that competing firms can be locked in a prisoner’s dilemma where all choose to adopt add-on pricing and lose profits (as compared to none adopting add-on pricing)

Xianjun Geng, University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, April 10, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 331, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: OM-economics interface, Add-on pricing, Competitive price discrimination

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Military Moral Hazard and the Fate of Empires

To explain why authority was delegated to the military in some empires and centralized in others, we construct a

Charles Z. Zheng, University of Western Ontario

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Authority, Military, Delegate, Equilibrium, Centralization

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Service Pricing with Loss Averse Customers

We consider a queueing system in which customers are loss averse towards both price and delay attributes: custome

Yulan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Friday, March 27, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Loss aversion, Equilibrium strategie, Service Pricing

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Mortgage Foreclosures and Securitisation

We develop a model to jointly study the security design problem of a mortgage pool owner (a bank), and the subsequent decision to foreclose or modify some mortgages which turn out to be non-performing

Jing Zeng, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Securitisation, Mortgage, Foreclosure

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Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and the Competition for High-income Men in Chinese Cities

Our findings with online dating, census and time use data suggest that the difficulties of elite women stem from incentives that affect women in general

David Ong, PHBS

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Online dating, Field experiment, Marriage, Hypergamy, Sex ratios, Competition

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Standing Out From the Crowd: The Outlier's Effect on Corporate Governance

This paper examines the real effects of outliers’ opinions in the context of extreme analyst optimism and c

Qianqian Du, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Outliers, extreme optimism, earnings management, financial analyst, corporate

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How does Macroprudential Regulation Change Bank Credit Supply?

We analyze a variant of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model of banking in which savers can use a bank to invest in

Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, University of Oxford

Monday, January 19, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Macroprudential regulation, Bank credit supply

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Accounting for the Corporate Cash Increase

Why do U S firms hold much more cash now than they did 30 years ago? I construct an industry equilibrium mode

Jake Zhao, Stony Brook University

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Cash holdings, Revenue, Operating expenses

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