2018 - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

The Role of Standards in the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative

Standards play a crucial role in the cooperation and connectivity of countries and economic zones

Pavel Castka, University of Canterbury

Monday, April 9, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: ISO standards, The One Belt One Road Initiative, Cooperation, Connectivity

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The Price Effects of Liquidity Shocks: A Study of SEC's Tick-Size Experiment

This paper studies the SEC s pilot program that increased the tick size for approximately 1,200 randomly chosen stocks

Yao Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Tick size pilot program, Liquidity, Price efficiency, News response rate

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A Firm’s Information Environment and Employee Wages

We examine the relation between a firm’s information environment and the wages paid to its rank-and-file employees

John (Jianqiu) Bai, Northeastern University

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Information environment, Employee wages, Disclosures, Readability, Forecasts

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Complexity Science & Systems Thinking for a New World

Global challenges and local problems can no longer be viewed and ‘solved’ with disciplinary sciences and the 17th century reductionist mind-sets

Kambiz Maani, Massey University

Tuesday, March 7, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Complexity science, Systems thinking

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Portfolio Manager Ownership and Mutual Fund Risk Taking

This paper studies the effect of portfolio manager ownership (i e , skin in the game) on mutual fund risk taking

Linlin Ma, Northeastern University

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Mutual funds, Portfolio manager ownership, Agency issues, Risk taking, Managerial incentives

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Recent Developments of Markov Chain Approximation for Option Pricing and Hedging

Continuous time Markov chain (CTMC) approximation is an intuitive and powerful method for pricing and hedging options in general Markovian models

Gongqiu Zhang, Wuhan University

Monday, March 5, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Markov chain approximation, Pricing and hedging

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The Roles of Regional Directorship Networks in Firm Failure among Colombian SMEs

We expand board interlock research by developing theory and testing hypotheses about community-level social capital

Albert A. Cannella Jr., Texas A&M University

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Regional directorship networks, SMEs

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Do Prime Brokers Matter for Funds of Hedge Funds?

We analyze possible information sharing between two important types of hedge fund intermediaries, namely funds of hedge funds (FoFs) and prime brokers (PBs)

Byoung Uk Kang, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Funds of hedge funds, Prime brokers

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Downward Wage Rigidity, Corporate Investment, and Firm Value

Firms reduce investment when facing downward wage rigidity (DWR), the inability or unwillingness to adjust wages downward

Duckki Cho, University of Sydney

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Downward wage rigidity, Corporate investment

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Oil Shocks, External Adjustment, and Country

This study examines the intertemporal theory of external adjustment and the determinants of country portfolio dynamics by using two types of oil income shocks with different timings

Liugang Sheng, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thursday, January 4, 2018 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Keywords: Oil shocks, External adjustment

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