3rd HKU Summer Finance Conference
3rd HKU Summer Finance Conference
Date: 22- 23 May 2025
| 22 May 2025 – Day 1 | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30-09:40 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| Session 1 – Chair: Irene Yi (University of Toronto and ECGI) | |
| 09:40-10:25 | Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics and ECGI) Delegated Blocks |
| 10:25-11:10 | Xavier Giroud (Columbia University) Innovation Spillovers Across U.S. Tech Clusters |
| 11:10-11:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 – Chair: Harald Hau (University of Geneva) | |
| 11:40-12:25 | Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics and ECGI) Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch at Shanghai Garden |
| Session 3 – Chair: Runjing Lu (University of Toronto) | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Jennie Bai (Georgetown University) China’s Global Ownership |
| 14:15-14:30 | Matthew Ringgenberg (University of Utah) Stock Options, Stock Loans, and the Law of One Price |
| 14:30-14:45 | Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh (Sungkyunkwan University) Bond Funds and Credit Risk |
| 14:45-15:00 | Thomas Schmid (University of Hong Kong) Are Politicians listening to Science? Evidence from the Impact of Climate Predictions on Policy Stringency |
| 15:00-15:15 | Silvina Rubio (University of Bristol) Transparency in Voting: When and Why Institutional Investors Provide Voting Rationales |
| 15:15-15:30 | Darwin Choi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) E vs. G: Environmental Policy and Earnings Management in China |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 – Chair: Bohui Zhang (CUHK Shenzhen) | |
| 15:55-16:45 | Caroline Flammer (Columbia University and ECGI) Blended Finance |
| 16:45-17:35 | Maxime Couvert (University of Hong Kong) Proxy voting guidelines and Director Elections |
| 18:00 | Dinner (covered) |
| 23 May 2025 – Day 2 | |
| Session 5 – Chair: Paul Karehnke (ESCP) | |
| 09:00-09:45 | Ran Duchin (Boston College) The Economic Effects of Political Polarization: Evidence from the Real Asset Market |
| 09:45-10:30 | Song Ma (Yale University and ECGI) Banks’ Image: Evidence from Financial Advertising |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6 – Chair: Ekaterina Gavrilova (Nova School of Business and Economics) | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Paul Voss (HEC Paris) Dynamic Leverage and Risk Taking |
| 11:15-11:30 | Yizhou Xiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Funding Payments Crisis-Proofed Bitcoin’s Perpetual Futures |
| 11:30-11:45 | Jiaheng Yu (University of Hong Kong) Why are accounts receivable backed loans expensive? |
| 11:45-12:00 | Daniele Macciocchi (University of Miami) The Economics of Investor Engagement |
| 12:00-12:15 | Alan Kwan (University of Hong Kong) Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work |
| 12:15-12:30 | Sivan Frenkel (Tel Aviv University) Strategic Disclosure with Fake and Real News |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch at The Square |
| Session 7 – Chair: Vicente J. Bermejo (ESADE) | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Philipp Krueger (University of Geneva and ECGI) The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green |
| 14:45-15:30 | Francois Derrien (HEC Paris) Climate Risk Engagements |
