The CUHK-RAPS-RCFS Conference on Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance

 

 

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DAY 1: 9 December 2024 (Monday)
9:00 - 9:30
Registration
9:30 - 9:40

Welcome Remarks

Tao Shu (Chairman, Department of Finance, CUHK)

Zhiguo He (Society of Financial Studies)

Corporate Finance Programme
              Session I: Mortgage Markets
              Chair: Wensi Xie (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
9:40 - 10:30

Developer Transparency and Mortgage Access: Expanding Homeownership
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Mingxuan Fan (National University of Singapore)
Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Arkodipta Sarkar (National University of Singapore)
Xiaoyu Zhang (Capital University of Economics and Business)

 

Discussant: Rawley Heimer (Arizona State University)

10:30 - 11:20

Algorithmic Underwriting in High Risk Mortgage Markets
Janet Gao (Georgetown University)
Hanyi Livia Yi (Boston College)
David Zhang (Rice University)

 

Discussant: Tetiana Davydiuk (Johns Hopkins University)
11:20 - 11:40
Tea/Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:40

Keynote Speech: Where is Corporate Finance Headed?

Franklin Allen (Professor of Economics and Finance and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London)


Moderator: Sudipto Dasgupta (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:40 - 2:00
Lunch (3rd Floor, The Stage, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK)
              Session II: ESG
              Chair: Tao Shu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2:00 - 2:50

Do Carbon Markets Undermine Private Climate Initiatives?
Pat Akey (INSEAD and University of Toronto)
Ian Appel (University of Virginia)
Aymeric Bellon (University of North Carolina)
Johannes Klausmann (University of Virginia)

 

Discussant: Qifei Zhu (National University of Singapore)
2:50 - 3:40

ESG Skill of Mutual Fund Managers
Marco Ceccarelli (VU Amsterdam)
Richard B. Evans (University of Virginia)
Simon Glossner (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
Mikael Homanen (PRI and Bayes Business School)
Ellie Luu (Strathclyde Business School)

 

Discussant: John Bai (Northeastern University)
3:40 - 4:00
Tea/coffee Break
              Session III: Entrepreneurship
              Chair: Ling Cen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4:00 - 4:50

Learning from the Band of Brothers: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Spillover

Yen-Cheng Chang (National Taiwan University)

Chun-Che Chi (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica)

Tim Chih-Ching Hung (National Taiwan University)

Kevin Tseng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

Discussant: Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore)

4:50 - 5:40

Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

Alan Kwan (University of Hong Kong)

Ben Matthies (University of Notre Dame)

Richard Townsend (University of California San Diego)

Ting Xu (University of Toronto)

 

Discussant: Fangyuan Ma (Peking University HSBC Business School)

5:40 - 9:00

Conference Dinner (By Invitation)

DAY 2: 10 December 2024 (Tuesday)
9:00 - 9:30
Registration
              Session IV: Policymakers and Policy Lessons
              Chair: Zhenyu Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
9:30 - 10:20

Between Boardrooms and the Beltway: The Career Paths of Senior Regulators

Ran Duchin (Boston College)

Yudong Wang (Boston College)

 

Discussant: Shuran Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

10:20 - 11:10

Housing and Fertility

Bernardus van Doornik (Banco Central do Brasil)

Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore)

Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London and CEPR)

Janis Skrastins (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Discussant: Yu Zhang (Peking University)

11:10 - 11:30
Tea/coffee Break
11:30 - 12:20

Strategic Risk-Modelling by Banks: Evidence from Inside the Black Box

Mike Mariathasan (KU Leuven)

Ouarda Merrouche (University Paris Nanterre)

Elizaveta Sizova (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

 

Discussant: Thomas Flanagan (The Ohio State University)

12:20 - 2:00

Lunch (5th Floor, Gastronomy Club, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK)

Asset Pricing Programme
              Session I: Noise Trading and Belief
              Chair: Yizhou Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2:00 - 2:50

Social Media-Driven Noise Trading: Liquidity Provision and Price Revelation Ahead of Earnings Announcements

Edna Lopez Avila (University of Toronto)
Charles Martineau (University of Toronto)
Jordi Mondria (University of Toronto)

 

Discussant: Neil Pearson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2:50 - 3:40

Higher-Order Beliefs and Risky Asset Holdings
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley)
Xiao Yin (University College London)

 

Discussant: Arthur Beddock (City University of Hong Kong)

3:40 - 4:00

Tea/Coffee Break

              Session II: Return Predictability
              Chair: John Kuong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4:00 - 4:50

Does Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns?
Andrew Y. Chen (Federal Reserve Board)
Alejandro Lopez-Lira (University of Florida)

Tom Zimmermann (University of Cologne and Centre for Financial Research)

 

Discussant: Philippe Mueller (The University of Warwick)

4:50 - 5:40

Pre-Refunding Announcement Gains in U.S. Treasurys
Chen Wang (University of Notre Dame)
Kevin Zhao (Office of Financial Research)

 

Discussant: Grace Xing Hu (Tsinghua University PBCSF)

5:40 - 9:00
Conference Dinner (By Invitation)
DAY 3: 11 December 2024 (Wednesday)
9:00 - 9:30
Registration
              Session III: Financial Institution
              Chair: Chen Yao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
9:30 - 10:20

Corporate Bond Issuance by Financial Institutions

Tetiana Davydiuk (Johns Hopkins University)

Tatyana Marchuk (BI Norwegian Business School)

Ivan Shaliastovich (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

Discussant: Jinyuan Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles)

10:20 - 11:10

Local Monetary Policy

Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College, NBER, ECGI, CEPR)

Tommaso Tamburelli (Boston College)

Nancy R. Xu (Boston College)

 

Discussant: Egemen Eren (Bank for International Settlements)

11:10 - 11:30
Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30

Keynote Speech: Information Acquisition By Mutual Fund Investors: Evidence from Stock Trading Suspensions (joint with David Xu)

Clemens Sialm (Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay Regents Chair in Finance at University of Texas at Austin)


Moderator: Wenxi Griffin Jiang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch (5th Floor, Gastronomy Club, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK)

              Session IV: New Factors
              Chair: Paul Whelan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2:00 - 2:50

Asset Pricing with the Awareness of New Priced Risks
Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen (BI Norwegian Business School)

Philipp Illeditsch (Texas A&M University)

Petra Sinagl (University of Iowa)

 

Discussant: Chao Ying (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2:50 - 3:40

Oil-Driven Greenium
Zhan Shi (Tsinghua University PBCSF)
Shaojun Zhang (The Ohio State University)

 

Discussant: Darwin Choi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

3:40 - 4:00
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:50

Do Software Companies Spread Cyber Risk?
Giorgio Ottonello (NOVA School of Business and Economics)
Antonino Emanuele Rizzo (ESADE Business School)

 

Discussant: Alan Kwan (University of Hong Kong)

4:50 - 5:00

Conference Concludes

Tao Shu (Chairman, Department of Finance, CUHK)

5:00 - 9:00
Conference Dinner (By Invitation)

 

 

 

Format: 50 mins per paper, presentation (25 mins), discussion (15 mins), and floor (10 mins)

 

 

 

Sponsors

 

Department of Finance, CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Society of Financial Studies