2021 - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

Comparing Communication Systems - The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States

We provide a theory of wage dispersion and involuntary unemployment based on optimal monopsony pricing A wage sc

Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Room 335, PHBS Building / ZOOM

Keywords: emphasize communication theory, empirical research methodologies, and the history of media and communication

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Wage Dispersion, Minimum Wages and Involuntary Unemployment: A Mechanism Design Perspective

We provide a theory of wage dispersion and involuntary unemployment based on optimal monopsony pricing A wage sc

Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Room 337, PHBS Buildings/ZOOM

Keywords: Mechanism Design, Industrial Organization

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Digital Connectivity, Climate Emergency, and Corona Pandemic: The Battle for Sustainability

We are currently facing an accelerating climate emergency and the worst public health epidemic in a hundred years

Graham Murdock, Loughborough University

Wednesday, Oct.27, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 335, PHBS Building

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Causal Reinforcement Learning: An Instrumental Variable Approach

In the standard data analysis framework, data is first collected (once for all), and then data analysis is carri

Ye Luo, Hong Kong University

Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, PHBS Building

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Firm Commitments

We provide a first empirical analysis of firm commitments to reduce their carbon emissions A growing fraction of

Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm | Room 339, PHBS Building / ZOOM

Keywords: Sustainability

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Managing Young Children’s Experience of Touchscreens

When touchscreens first appeared on tablets and smartphones the easier to use interface enabled very young childre

Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 9:00am – 10:30am | Room 335, PHBS Building / ZOOM

Keywords: Social shaping, Consumption of ICTs, children’s digital experiences

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Faster Deliveries and Smarter Order Assignments for an On-Demand Meal Delivery Platform

The focus of this talk is to identify the underlying factors and develop an order assignment policy that can he

Ying Rong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Room 335, PHBS Building (onsite) / ZOOM

Keywords: Service Operations, Retail Operations, Operations in Emerging Business Models and Data-driven Optimization

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Investment in Human Capital under Endogenous Asymmetric Information

When is general training under-provided? We study this classic question in a model of a competitive labour market

Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | 9:00am – 10:30am | Room 337, PHBS Buildings / ZOOM

Keywords: Managerial Economics, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics

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Digital Transitions of Local Press in China: Some Recent Findings

Two recent research projects will be shared in this seminar 1 Title: Making Un-news: News Aggregation in Local C

Angela (Dan) Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337, PHBS Building & Zoom Meeting

Keywords: Digital Journalism

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Currency Management by International Fixed Income Mutual Funds

Investments in international fixed income securities are exposed to significant currency risks We collect novel da

Clemens Sialm, University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, 15 September, 2021 | 10:00am-11:30am | Room 339, PHBS Building & Zoom Meeting

Keywords: Investments, Retirement savings, and Taxation

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