Webinar Series
7:30 am – 8:40 am, Wednesday (India Time)
10:00 pm – 11:10 pm, Tuesday (US Time / Eastern Time)*
9:00 pm – 10:10 pm, Tuesday (Central Time)*
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, multilevel neural nets, the Internet of Things (IoT) and other digital technologies are transforming the world. They are strengthening innovation and productivity and innovation by rendering the future more predictable and reshaping individual, business, social, and government behavior. Asia leads the world in some of these endeavors, e.g., digital platforms. The OECD lists 40% of big new digital technologies as Asian. Almost half of global digital platform business-to-consumer revenues are Asian, versus only 22% from the U.S. and 12% from the Eurozone. Profound new policy challenges arising, in consequence, include: (i) shifting skills demanded in labor markets and “digital divide” inequality, (ii) AI expanding financial inclusion or encoding inequality, expanding or obscuring accountability, increasing transparency or obscuring amoral decision-making, and (iii) digital privacy, unsanctionable on-line libel, misinformation, manipulation, and propaganda. The ABFER, therefore, plans a monthly e-seminar series spotlighting important new research, particularly the Asia-pacific related, into these issues and providing “state-of-the-art” overviews by prominent scholars. We hope policy makers and practitioners will find the e-seminars helpful and will alert researchers to issues needing attention.
Please register here and you will be sent the live webinar link two days before the event.
Upcoming Webinar
6 July 2022, 10:00 am (SGT)
Past Webinars
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Digitization and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy Susan ATHEY Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Founding Director, Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, Stanford; Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Stanford University 6 October 2021, 10:00 am (SGT) |
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David Y. YANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Harvard University 3 November 2021, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-authors: Martin BERAJA, Pentti J. K. Kouri Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Noam YUCHTMAN, Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and Deputy Head of Department (Faculty Development), Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science Discussant: Matilde BOMBARDINI, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley |
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Kohei KAWAGUCHI, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 1 December 2021, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-authors: Toshifumi KURODA, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University Susumu SATO, Assistant Professor, Research Division of Theories in Economics and Statistics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University Discussant: Ying FAN, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Michigan |
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Yao ZENG, Assistant Professor of Finance, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 5 January 2022, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-authors: Pulak GHOSH, Professor in the Decision Sciences Area, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Boris VALLEE, Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University Discussant: Tiffany TSAI, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore |
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Tracy Xiao LIU, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University 9 February 2022, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-authors: ZhiXi WAN, Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong Chenyu YANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland Discussant: Xiaolan ZHOU, Zijiang Endowed Young Scholar, Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University |
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Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoin and Crypto Shadow Banking Ye LI Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University 2 March 2022, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-author: Simon MAYER, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fama-Miller Center, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Discussant: Yubo CHEN, Senior Associate Dean, Professor, and Director of Center for Internet Development and Governance at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University |
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Blockchain without Crypto? Linking On-Chain Data Growth to Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns Lin William CONG Rudd Family Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Finance, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson College of Business Cornell University 6 April 2022, 10:00 am (SGT) Co-author: Ran CHANG, Assistant Professor of Finance, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Discussant: Greg BUCHAK, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
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Session Format
Each session lasts for 1 hour 10 minutes (25 minutes for the author, 25 minutes for the discussion and 20 minutes for participants' Q&A). Sessions will be recorded and posted on ABFER's web, except in cases where speakers or discussants request us not to.
Registration
Please register here . A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event. (Notice: Videos and screenshots will be taken during each session for the purpose of marketing, publicity purposes in print, electronic and social media)
Organising Committee
Yubo Chen (Tsinghua SEM), Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Mitsuru Igami (Yale University), Michael Song (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Daniel Xu (Duke University), Bernard Yeung (ABFER and National University of Singapore) and Yi Huang (Fudan University)
Collaborating Institutions
ABFER, CUHK-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center on Digital Economy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics and Center for Internet Development and Governance, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM)