Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 06/Dec/2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
Registration
8:30am
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9:25am
SAT 1-1: Fixed Income
 

Anatomy of the Treasury Market: Who Moves Yields?

Manav Chaudhary1, Zhiyu Fu2, Haonan Zhou3

1: University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; 2: Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business; 3: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-1: Corporate Bonds
 

Illiquidity Meets Intelligence: AI-Driven Price Discovery in Corporate Bonds

Stacey Jacobsen, Kumar Venkataraman, David Xu

Southern Methodist University, United States of America

SAT 3-1: Health and Finance
 

Diffused Errors along Technology Spillovers: Evidence from the 510(k) Medical Device Market

Po-Hsuan Hsu1, Kyungran Lee2, S. Katie Moon3, Seungjoon Oh4

1: National Tsing Hua University; 2: Neoma Business School; 3: University of Colorado; 4: Peking University

SAT 4-1: Trust and Culture
 

Set in Stone: The Persistence and Origin of Corporate Culture

Kai Li1, Yu-Jane Liu2, Ruichang Lu2, Kaihao Qian2, Xiaojun Zhang2

1: University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business; 2: Peking University, Guanghua School of Management,

9:40am
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10:35am
SAT 1-2: Fixed Income
 

What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient?

Yilin {David} Yang

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-2: Corporate Bonds
 

What Drives Global Corporate Bond Returns?

Jiarui Deng1, Kewei Hou2, Zhan Shi1

1: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100083, China; 2: Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

SAT 3-2: Health and Finance
 

Healthy Returns: The Impact of Paid Sick Leave on Hospital Healthcare Quality

Jie Cao1, Lei Lei1, Linjia Song2, Xintong Zhan3

1: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Xiamen University; 3: Fudan University

SAT 4-2: Trust and Culture
 

Valuing Ideological Customer Capital: Measurement through Procurement

Winston Dou1, Yan Ji2, David Reibstein2, Di Tian3

1: University of Pennsylvania and NBER; 2: HKUST, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: University of Pennsylvania

10:50am
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11:45am
SAT 1-3: Fixed Income
 

A Nascent International Financial Channel of China’s Monetary Policy Transmission

Chang Ma1, Alessandro Rebucci2, Sili Zhou3

1: Fudan University; 2: Johns Hopkins University; 3: University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-3: Corporate Bonds
 

The Risk and Return of Stocks and Bonds

Alex Dickerson1, Mathieu Fournier1, Jan Ericsson2, Piotr Orlowski3

1: UNSW business school, Australia; 2: Mc Gill University; 3: HEC Montreal

SAT 3-3: Health and Finance
 

What They Don't Know Can Hurt You: Hidden Medical Debt and Consumers’ Access to Credit

Elena Loutskina, Joonsung Won

University of Virginia, United States of America

SAT 4-3: Trust and Culture
 

From CeFi to DeFi: What does Investors (Mis)trust?

Shaokai Ding1, Wenzhi Ding2, Chen Lin3

1: Manchester University, Manchester (U.K.); 2: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

11:55am
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1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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2:55pm
SAT 5-1: Patterns in Returns
 

Mosaics of Predictability

Lin William Cong1, Guanhao Feng2, Jingyu He2, Yuanzhi Wang2

1: Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business (Johnson) and NBER; 2: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 6-1: Financial Products
 

Asset Pricing with "Buy Now, Pay Later"

Semyon Malamud1, Neng Wang2, Yuan Zhang3

1: Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL, and CEPR, Switzerland; 2: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and NBER, China; 3: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

SAT 7-1: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Financial Innovation

Francesco D'Acunto1, Hengyi Huang2, Michael Weber3, Jin Xie4, Liu Yang5

1: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; 2: Tilburg University; 3: Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER; 4: Peking University HSBC Business School; 5: University of Maryland

SAT 8-1: ESG
 

How green is green? Anatomy of ESG funds’ selection

Dunhong Jin, Roni Michaely, Menghan Wang

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

3:10pm
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4:05pm
SAT 5-2: Patterns in Returns
 

Anomaly-driven demand

Anders Merrild Posselt, Mads Markvart Kjær

Aarhus University, Denmark

SAT 6-2: Financial Products
 

The Distribution Side of Insurance Markets

Jiaxing Tian1, Li An2, Wei Huang3, Dong Lou4, Yongxiang Wang5

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 2: Tsinghua PBC School of Finance; 3: University of International Business and Economics; 4: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and CEPR; 5: Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

SAT 7-2: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Labor Unrest and Socially Responsible Hiring

Bohui Zhang1, Jiaxing You2, Haikun Zhu3

1: Xiamen University; 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen); 3: China Europe International Business School, China, People's Republic of

SAT 8-2: ESG
 

Oil-Driven Greenium

Zhan Shi1, Shaojun Zhang2

1: Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 2: The Ohio State University

4:20pm
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5:15pm
SAT 5-3: Patterns in Returns
 

Belief Skewness in the Stock Market

Arthur Beddock1, Paul Karehnke2

1: City University of Hong Kong; 2: ESCP Business School

SAT 6-3: Financial Products
 

Leasing as a corporate risk management mechanism

Weiwei Hu1, Kai Li1, Chenjie Xu2

1: Peking University, HSBC Business School, China, People's Republic of; 2: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

SAT 7-3: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Displacement or Augmentation? The Effects of AI on Workforce Dynamics and Firm Value

Mark Chen1, Joanna Wang2

1: Georgia State University; 2: Peking University

SAT 8-3: ESG
 

The Salience of Climate Change and Green Patents Review: Evidence from Climatic Disasters

Jie Cao1, Tao Shu2, Xuan Tian3, Yajing Wang1, Xintong Zhan4

1: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: Tsinghua University; 4: Fudan University

5:30pm
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7:30pm
Awards Reception