10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
Corporate FINANCE

 
 
22
May
2023
Monday

Corporate Finance 1
Chair: Ronald MASULIS (University of New South Wales & ABFER)

Location: Azalea 2

9:00 am – 10:00 am (SGT)
Market-Based Innovation Policy: Evidence from High-Tech Incubators in China
Yue PAN (Xiamen University)
Tao SHU* (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Vincent YAO (Georgia State University)
Pengdong ZHANG (Sun Yat-Sen University)

Discussant:
Po-Hsuan (Paul) HSU (National Tsing Hua University & ABFER)
10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Do Hedge Funds Exploit Material Nonpublic Information?
Wei WANG (Queen’s University, Kingston)
Yan YANG* (Queen’s University, Kingston)
Jingyu ZHANG (Queen’s University, Kingston)

Discussant:
Forester WONG (University of Southern California)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Do Banks Compete on Non-Price Terms? Evidence from Loan Covenants
Rustam ABUZOV (University of Virginia)
Christoph HERPFER* (Emory University)
Roberto STERI (University of Luxembourg)

Discussant:
Emilio BISETTI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 
23
MAY
2023
Tuesday

Corporate Finance 2
Chair: Alminas ZALDOKAS (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Location: Azalea 3

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (SGT)
Managerial Learning from Decoding Noisy Stock Prices: New(s) Evidence
Alan KWAN (The University of Hong Kong)
Tse-Chun LIN* (The University of Hong Kong)
Po-Yu LIU (The University of Hong Kong)

Discussant:
Umit GURUN (University of Texas at Dallas)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Learning Production Process Heterogeneity Across Industries: Implications of Deep Learning for Corporate M&A Decisions
Jongsub LEE (Seoul National University)
Hayong YUN* (Michigan State University)

Discussant:
Nagpurnanand PRABHALA (Johns Hopkins University)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Innovation
Francesco D'ACUNTO (Georgetown University)
Hengyi HUANG (Tilburg University)
Michael WEBER (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Jin XIE* (Peking University)
Liu YANG (University of Maryland)

Discussant:
Stephen DIMMOCK (National University of Singapore & ABFER)

24
May
2023
Wednesday

Corporate Finance 3
Chair: Hong RU (Nanyang Technological University)

Location: Azalea 3

9:00 am – 10:00 am (SGT)
Tax Incentives, Small Businesses, and Physical Capital Reallocation
Riddha BASU (The George Washington University)
Doyeon KIM* (The University of Hong Kong)
Manpreet SINGH (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Discussant:
Varun SHARMA (Nanyang Technological University)
10:00 am – 10:30am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Political Partisanship and the Transmission of Fiscal Policy
Francesco D'ACUNTO (Georgetown University)
Pulak GHOSH (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore & ABFER)
Alberto G. ROSSI* (Georgetown University)

Discussant:
Rik SEN (University of New South Wales)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Value of Bankruptcy Court in Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Bond Market
Bo LI* (Tsinghua University)
Mai LI (Peking University)
Songnan LI (Peking University)
Laura Xiaolei LIU (Peking University)

Discussant:
Randall MORCK (University of Alberta & ABFER)

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 30 May 2023. 

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

Contact Information

Program Director Conference Organizer

Jun-Koo KANG (Nanyang Technological University & ABFER)
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Randall MORCK (University of Alberta & ABFER)
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Hong RU (Nanyang Technological University)
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Johan SULAEMAN (National University of Singapore & ABFER)
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Alminas ZALDOKAS (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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