Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 07/Dec/2025 | ||||
| 8:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration Location: Lobby, 1/F, Friendship Palace |
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| 8:30am - 9:25am |
SUN 1-1: Crypto and Fintech Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Laura Xiaolei Liu, Peking University Discussant: Yingguang Zhang, Peking University, Guanghua School of Management Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends 1: Yuan Ze University; 2: Arizona State University; 3: National University of Singapore; 4: Harvard Business School (visiting) |
SUN 2-1: Disclosure and Transparency Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto Discussant: Xiao Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University CEO Incentives and Acquisitions: Evidence from the Pay Ratio Disclosure Mandate 1: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: CEPR; 3: ABFER; 4: ECGI |
SUN 3-1: Government Location: Meeting Room 7, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Nancy Xu, Boston College Discussant: Xiang FANG, University of Hong Kong Government Spending and Rising Industry Stars London Business School |
SUN 4-1: Risk Factors Location: Meeting Room 8, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Jun Liu, University of California San Diego Discussant: Dan Luo, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics So Many Jumps, So Little News 1: Princeton University, USA; 2: Renmin University of China, China; 3: Peking University, China |
| 9:40am - 10:35am |
SUN 1-2: Crypto and Fintech Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Laura Xiaolei Liu, Peking University Discussant: Chloe Yue Liu, Peking University Crypto Risk in the Financial System 1: SWUFE, China, People's Republic of; 2: NYU, USA; 3: CAL Poly, USA |
SUN 2-2: Disclosure and Transparency Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto Discussant: Xintong Zhan, Fudan University Unveiling the Fog of Law: Judicial Transparency and Entrepreneurship Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance |
SUN 3-2: Government Location: Meeting Room 7, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Nancy Xu, Boston College Discussant: Xin Zheng, University of British Columbia Contracting with Government: Judicial Independence and Expropriation Risk in the Capital Market Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China |
SUN 4-2: Risk Factors Location: Meeting Room 8, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Jun Liu, University of California San Diego Discussant: Zhe Geng, Fudan University Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks, Bonds (and Options), Redux 1: The Wharton School; 2: The Wharton School; 3: HKUST Business School, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 4: The Wharton School |
| 10:50am - 11:45am |
SUN 1-3: Crypto and Fintech Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Laura Xiaolei Liu, Peking University Discussant: Zhibing Li, University of International Business and Economics CODE-WASHING: EVIDENCE FROM OPEN-SOURCE BLOCKCHAIN STARTUPS 1: National University of Singapore; 2: The University of Hong Kong; 3: Tsinghua University |
SUN 2-3: Disclosure and Transparency Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto Discussant: Zhen Zhou, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University Moral Hazard and the Corporate Information Environment Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
SUN 3-3: Government Location: Meeting Room 7, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Nancy Xu, Boston College Discussant: Jin Xie, Peking University HSBC Business School Sowing Public Seeds, Reaping Private Blooms: A Q-theoretical Approach to Government Investment 1: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Boston College; 3: University of Waterloo; 4: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
SUN 4-3: Risk Factors Location: Meeting Room 8, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Jun Liu, University of California San Diego Discussant: Junxiong Gao, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance Semiparametric Conditional Factor Models in Asset Pricing 1: CUHK-Shenzhen; 2: The Wharton School; 3: HKUST Business School, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
| 11:55am - 1:45pm |
Lunch Location: Buffet Restaurant, 1/F, Friendship Palace |
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| 2:00pm - 2:55pm |
SUN 5-1: Information and Trading in Financial Market Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Kalok Chan, City University of Hong Kong Discussant: Arthur Beddock, City University of Hong Kong Inside Out: Who Trade Before the Start of Cyber Attacks? 1: Baruch College, City University of New York; 2: Central University of Finance and Economics; 3: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics |
SUN 6-1: Inequality Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Chishen Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Discussant: Seungjoon Oh, Peking University HSBC Business School To Grant or Not to Grant: Inventor Gender and Patent Examination Outcomes 1: Temple University, United States of America; 2: Willamette University; 3: Dartmouth College; 4: Nankai University |
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| 3:10pm - 4:05pm |
SUN 5-2: Information and Trading in Financial Market Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Kalok Chan, City University of Hong Kong Discussant: Grace Hu, Tsinghua University Market Feedback: Evidence from the Horse’s Mouth 1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: Tsinghua University; 3: University of Toronto |
SUN 6-2: Inequality Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Chishen Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Discussant: Julia Meijun Qian, People’s Bank of China Share the gain but not the pain: Managerial rent extraction and the manager-worker pay growth gap 1: University of Georgia, United States of America; 2: Meta Platforms Inc; 3: Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| 4:20pm - 5:15pm |
SUN 5-3: Information and Trading in Financial Market Location: Meeting Room 4, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Kalok Chan, City University of Hong Kong Discussant: Tianyu Wang, Tsinghua University China Walls 1: PolyU, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Wharton School; 3: CEU |
SUN 6-3: Inequality Location: Meeting Room 5, 2/F, Friendship Palace Chair: Chishen Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Discussant: Danxia XIE, Tsinghua University Does Digitalization Widen Labor Income Inequality? 1: School of Economics, Shandong University; 2: School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 3: School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen); 4: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto |
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