学术讲座 seminar
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R&D Competence and Firm Growth
Seungjoon Oh, PHBS
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | 12:00pm–1:00pm |Room 763, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: We examine the effects of heterogeneous firm technological competence, and industry R&D uncertainty and costs on f
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Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance:Evidence From the 2003 Tax Cut
Teng Sun, Stanford University
Monday, April 20, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: Evidence on the causal effect of managerial ownership on firm performance is elusive due to a lack of within-fir
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How Costs and Heterogeneous Consumer Price Sensitivity Interact with Add-On P...
Xianjun Geng, University of Texas at Dallas
Friday, April 10, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 331, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract:Even if firms have the capability to pre-commit to not adopting add-on pricing, we show that competing firms can be locked in a prisoner’s dilemma where all choose to adopt add-on pricing and lose profits (as compared to none adopting add-on pricing)
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Military Moral Hazard and the Fate of Empires
Charles Z. Zheng, University of Western Ontario
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: To explain why authority was delegated to the military in some empires and centralized in others, we construct a
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Service Pricing with Loss Averse Customers
Yulan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Friday, March 27, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 333, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: We consider a queueing system in which customers are loss averse towards both price and delay attributes: custome
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Mortgage Foreclosures and Securitisation
Jing Zeng, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract:We develop a model to jointly study the security design problem of a mortgage pool owner (a bank), and the subsequent decision to foreclose or modify some mortgages which turn out to be non-performing
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Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and the Competition for High-income Men in...
David Ong, PHBS
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: Our findings with online dating, census and time use data suggest that the difficulties of elite women stem from incentives that affect women in general
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Standing Out From the Crowd: The Outlier's Effect on Corporate Governance
Qianqian Du, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: This paper examines the real effects of outliers’ opinions in the context of extreme analyst optimism and c
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How does Macroprudential Regulation Change Bank Credit Supply?
Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, University of Oxford
Monday, January 19, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Building ||
Abstract: We analyze a variant of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model of banking in which savers can use a bank to invest in
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Accounting for the Corporate Cash Increase
Jake Zhao, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | 2:00pm–3:30pm |Room 335, HSBC Business School Buildin ||
Abstract: Why do U S firms hold much more cash now than they did 30 years ago? I construct an industry equilibrium mode