Academic Areas - HKU Business School

24 August

2022 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference

2022 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference [Programme Rundown]
9:00am-9:15am	Welcome Speech Pingyang Gao (Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)
9:15am-10:00am	Paper 1: Charles Kang, University of Hong Kong Paper title: Divestitures, Classification Uncertainty, and Stock Market Mispricing
10:00am-10:45am	Paper 2: Arthur Morris, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Paper title: Individual Mortgage Lending, Public Corruption, Race, and Gender: Evidence from Local Corruption Crackdowns
10:45am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-11:45am	Paper 3: John Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Paper title: Do Corporate Income Tax Assessments Affect Pricing Strategy?
11:45pm-12:30pm	Paper 4: Mark Yan, Hong Kong Baptist University Paper title: Debt Contracting and Changes to the Accounting for Leases: Implications of Accounting Standards Codification 842
12:30am-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm	Paper 5: Lawrence Lei, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong Paper title: Inclusive Board Representation? Views on Diverse Directors from HK Listed Companies
2:45pm-3:30pm	Paper 6: Liwei Weng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Paper title: Mutual Fund Strategic Disclosure
3:30pm-3:45pm	Break
3:45pm-4:30pm	Paper 7: Kelvin Yeung, City University of Hong Kong Paper title: Audit Partners’ Cultural Heritage, Audit Outcomes, and Client Financial Reporting Choices
4:30pm-5:15pm	Paper 8: Ray Wang, Lingnan University Paper title: Contemptuous CEOs and Management Forecasts
5:15pm-5:30pm	Closing speech Pingyang Gao (Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)

This conference is co-organized by Hong Kong Academic Accounting Association Limited and HKU Business School.

18 July

HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management

June 29 -30, 2022 | Information Systems (IS) Part

Keynote

Prof. Andrew Burton-Jones (University of Queensland)

“Views from MISQ: The world of the text”

Keynote

Prof. Yong Tan (University of Washington)

“Learning to be Proficient? A Structural Model of User Dynamic Engagement in E-Health Interventions”

Keynote

Prof. Han Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

“Bots with Feelings: Should AI Agents Express Positive Emotion in Customer Service?”

Presentation 1

Dr. Lionel Li (HKU)

“Store Recommendations in Offline Shopping: An Unbiased Ranking Approach Using Spatial Movement”

Presentation 2

Ms. Yifan Jiao (HKU)

“Algorithms versus Friends in Content Recommendations: A Large-Scale Field Experiment”

Presentation 3

Dr. Yipu Deng (HKU)

“Let Artificial Intelligence Be Your Shelf Watchdog: The Impact of AI-powered Shelf Monitoring on Product Sales”

Presentation 4

Dr. Shengjun Mao (HKU)

“Offline Stores Boost the Credibility of Online Stores: Evidence from a Multichannel Retailer”

HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management

July 6 -7, 2022 | Operations Management (OM) Part

Keynote

Prof. Jeannette Song (Duke University)

“The Blockchain Newsvendor: Value of Freshnesss Transparency and Smart Contracts”

Keynote

Prof. Wedad Elmaghraby (University of Maryland)

“Electronics and Fashion Waste”

Presentation 1

Dr. Feng Tian (HKU)

“Punish Underperformance with Suspension — Optimal Dynamic Contracts in the Presence of Switching Cost”

Presentation 2

Dr. Zhengli Wang (HKU)

“New Venture Creation: A Drift-Variance Diffusion Control Model”

Presentation 3

Dr. Eric Park (HKU)

“Patient Sensitivity to Emergency Department Waiting Time Announcements”

Presentation 4

Mr. Jin Yao (HKU)

“How Does Risk Hedging Impact Operations? Insights from a Price-Setting Newsvendor Model”

HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management

July 15, 2022 | Business Analytics (BA) Part

Keynote

Prof. Jianqing Fan (Princeton University)

“Structural Deep Learning in Conditional Asset Pricing”

Keynote

Prof. Jane-Ling Wang (University of California)

“The Trouble with Sparse Functional Data”

Presentation 1

Dr. Dan Yang (HKU)

“Network Regression and Supervised Centrality Estimation”

Presentation 2

Dr. Weichen Wang (HKU)

“Volatility Prediction Comparison via Robust Volatility Proxies”

30 August

The Second HKU Empirical Accounting Symposium (Virtual)

About the Speaker

Professor W. Robert Knechel is a prominent scholar in the field of accounting. He currently holds the University of Florida Research Foundation Professor and the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting in the Fisher School of Accounting, Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He is the senior editor (chief editor) of The Accounting Review, one of the most prestigious accounting journals.

He has previously served as the Senior Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. He is the Director of the International Accounting and Auditing Center in the Fisher School of Accounting. He previously has held partial appointments at Maastricht University and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He currently serves on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the PCAOB and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Audit Research in the Netherlands.

Professor Knechel is a leading scholar in auditing. He received the Auditing Section’s Outstanding Educator Award in 2015. He has also received the award for the Best Paper Published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory in 2016 and was the recipient of the Auditing Section’s Notable Contribution in the Auditing Literature Award in 2017. Professor Knechel has been active in the American Accounting Association, especially the Auditing Section. He served as the Chairman of the Auditing Section. During his tenure, the Auditing Section initiated the first of its annual midyear meetings. He also served as Vice-Chairman and Director of Education of the Auditing Section at different times.

Program

Aug 5 (Thu) 08:30-10:30 AM | Keynote Speech: Economics of Auditing and Future of Audit Research

Aug 6 (Fri) 07:30-10:30 PM | Accounting Ph.D. Workshop I

Aug 20 (Fri) 07:30-10:30 PM | Accounting Ph.D. Workshop II

22 July

HKU Business School Economics Research Showcase

This mini-workshop aims to showcase the diverse portfolio of the research interests and expertise of the recently transformed Economics area at HKU business school. Each participating faculty will first discuss either their research area or a recent research project, followed by a personal sharing about the origin of the idea and the challenges encountered during the project.

Date:	July 28-29, 2021 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Time:	2:00pm – 5:20pm (July 28) (HKT/GMT+8) 9:30am – 11:30am (July 29) (HKT/GMT+8)
Language:	English
Moderator:	Prof. Heiwai Tang

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Schedule:

July 28, 2021

Time	Presenter	Research Field/Area	Title of Presentation
14:00 – 14:40	Dr. Yanhui Wu	Organisational Economics and Media	Organizational and Media Economics in the Digital Era
14:40 – 15:20	Dr. Heng Chen	Political Economy	Do the Media Bow to Foreign Economic Powers? Evidence from a News Website Crackdown
15:20 – 16:00	Dr. Guojun He	Environmental Economics	Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China
16:00 – 16:40	Dr. Bingjing Li	Trade	Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China’s Economy
16:40 – 17:20	Prof. James Kung	Economic History	Commercial Revolution in Medieval China: Origin and Consequences

July 29, 2021

Time	Presenter	Research Field/Area	Title of Presentation
09:30 – 10:10	Prof. Xiaodong Zhu	Macroeconomics	Macroeconomic research of the Chinese Economy
10:10 – 10:50	Dr. Leyla Han	Macroeconomics	Announcements, Expectations, and Stock Returns with Asymmetric Information
10:50 – 11:30	Prof. Wing Suen	Microeconomic Theory	Gaming a Selective Admissions System