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Too Hasty a Break-up? Internal Control Weakness Disclosure and Firm Divestiture Decisions
We examine how changes in the economic incentives of state-owned partners can reshape the balance of cooperation

Qiang Li, HKUST

Thursday, November 26, 2020 | 10:30am - 12:00pm | ZOOM, Room 321

Keywords: economic incentive, SOE, bargaining power

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Will Book Corners Help? Exploring the Effect of In-Class Book Corners on Students’ Academic Performance and Psychological Well-Being
Reading resources are scarce for children in rural China and other developing countries We conduct a large-scale

Rui Zhu, CKGSB

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | ZOOM, Room 333

Keywords: rual Chinese, academic performance

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Does regulation inhibit innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growt

John Van Reenen, MIT

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | ZOOM, Room 335

Keywords: innovation intensity, regulatory threshold

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From Finance to Fascism
Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study the banking crisis of Germany of 1931, when two major banks collaps

Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | ZOOM, Room 331

Keywords: financial crisis, bank failure

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Banks, Dollar Liquidity and Exchange Rates
This paper presents a theory of exchange rate determination based on an endogenous liquidity premium The theory

Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am | ZOOM, Room 337

Keywords: exchange rate, liquidity premium, dollar-reserve position

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Human Capital Portability and Worker Career Choices: Evidence from M&A Bankers
We estimate a dynamic model with endogenous human capital accumulation and job separations using a novel data tha

Yufeng Wu, UIUC

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am | ZOOM, Room 339

Keywords: labor mobility, career path, M&A advisor

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Motivations and Equity: Restoring Balance in IJVs in Post-SASAC China
We examine how changes in the economic incentives of state-owned partners can reshape the balance of cooperation

Andrew Delios, National University of Singapore

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | ZOOM, Room 335

Keywords: economic incentive, ownership, financial performance

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Leveraging Overconfidence
In theory, overconfident investors with a budget constraint use leverage more, trade more, and perform worse than

Terrance Odean, Berkeley Haas

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am | ZOOM, Room 339

Keywords: individual investors, margin, stock trading

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Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations
This paper investigates how transportation networks shape firms’ geographic footprint by reducing monitoring co

Yatang Lin, HKUST

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | ZOOM, Room 337

Keywords: distant investment, HSR effect

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Cleaning House Before Hosting New Guests: A Political Path Dependence Model of the Adaptation of Political Connections in the Aftermath of Anticorruption Shocks
We develop a political path dependence model to integrate the network embeddedness perspective and the literature

Han Jiang, Tulane University

Wednesday, November 4, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | ZOOM, Room 335

Keywords: political connection, anticorruption

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