2016 - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

Smart-Dating in Speed-Dating

How do people in a romantic matching situation choose a potential partner? We study this question in a new model of matching under search frictions, which we calibrate using data from an existing speed dating experiment

Xiaoyu Xia, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Friday, January 8, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Smart-dating, Speed-dating

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Capital Structure Misallocation

We ask whether financial assets are well-allocated in the cross-section of firms Extending the framework of Hsieh and Klenow (2009) to the liabilities side of the balance sheet, we estimate the real losses that accrue from the cross-sectional misalloc

Jake Zhao, Stony Brook University

Thursday, January 7, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Capital structure misallocation, Firms

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Labor Unemployment Concern and CEO Risk-taking Incentives

A firm serves as a nexus of a set of contractual relationships in which the conflicting objectives of different stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and investors, are brought into equilibrium

Qingbo Yuan, University of Melbourne

Thursday, January 7, 2016 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 333, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Firms, Employees’ unemployment risk

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Overlapping-Generations Ratings: How to identify experts to identify experts to identify . . . ?

Overlapping-Generations Ratings: How to identify experts to identify experts to identify ?

Kim-Sau Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Overlapping-generations ratings, Experts

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