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07 October

HKU Macroeconomics Workshop

HKU Macroeconomics Workshop

[Programme Rundown]

9:00 am – 10:15 amEric Swanson, University of California Irvine

(with Sebastian Graves, Christopher K. Huckfeldt)

The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary

10:15 am – 10: 30 amCoffee/tea break
10:30 am – 11:15 amWataru Miyamoto, University of Hong Kong

(with Thuy Lan Nguyen and Dmitriy Sergeyev)

How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel

11:15 am – 12:00 pmXiang Fang, University of Hong Kong

(with Xiangyu Ding and Yang Liu)

Macroprudential Policies with Stochastic Volatility

*This workshop is by invitation only.

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19 November

2023 HKU Accounting Theory Conference

 

Day 1

Dec 13 – HKU Business School (Room 315, K.K. Leung Building)

 

8:45amRegistration
9:00am-9:10amWelcome and Opening Remarks

Xin Wang    (Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)

9:10am-10:20 am“Effects of climate risk disclosure on socially responsible investment”

Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin

10:20am-10:35amCoffee/Tea Break
10:35am-11:45pm“Revisiting Accounting Entropy: a summary measure of accounting numbers classification”

Pierre Jinghong Liang, Carnegie Mellon University

12:00pm-1:40pmLunch – 14/F, Senior Common Room, K.K. Leung Building
1:50 pm-3:00 pm“Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring”

Ming Yang, University College London

3:00pm-4:10pm“Real Effects of Measuring and Reporting Unrealized Fair Value Gains”

Robert Göx, University of Zurich

4:10pm-4:40pmCoffee/Tea Break
4:40pm-5:50pm“Rational Inattention and Accounting Standard Choice”

Keri Peicong Hu, University of Hong Kong

6:00pmTransportation to Dinner
6:30pm-8:30pmDinner – The Square

 

Day 2

Dec 14 – HKU Business School (Room 315, K.K. Leung Building)

9:00am-10:10am“Fair Value Accounting and Debt Maturity Structure – Should we Adopt Mark-to-Funding Accounting?”

Xu Jiang, Duke University

10:10am-10:25amCoffee/Tea Break
10:25am-11:35am“Accounting-based Valuation with Inter-firm Information Transfers”

Bjorn Jorgensen, Copenhagen Business School

11:35am-11:45amClosing Remarks

Pingyang Gao   (Zhang Yonghong Professor in Accounting, HKU Business School)

12:00pm-2:00pmLunch –海悅華宴
2:00pm-6:00pmActivities (TBA)

*This conference is by invitation only.

 

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22 August

2023 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference

2023 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference

[Programme Rundown]

9:00am-9:15amWelcome Speech

Xin Wang

(Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)

9:15am-10:00amPaper 1:

Minjae Koo, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Acquisition of Customer Information and Corporate Decision Making

10:00am-10:45amPaper 2:

Wilbur Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Paper title: Uncovering Value in Spincos: The Accounting Performance and Information Environment Consequences of Spun-off Subsidiaries

10:45am-11:00amBreak
11:00am-11:45amPaper 3:

Peeyush Taori, University of Hong Kong

Paper title: The Influence of External Legal Counsels on Loan Contract Design and Performance

11:45pm-12:30pmPaper 4:

Chris X. Zhao, Hong Kong Baptist University

Paper title: Government Procurement, Media Coverage, and Voluntary Disclosure: Global Evidence

12:30am-2:00pmLunch
2:00pm-2:45pmPaper 5:

Jongwon Park, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Paper title: Audit Fee Disclosure in the Year of an Auditor Switch

2:45pm-3:30pmPaper 6:

Wonjae Chang, City University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Real Effects of General Counsel in Top Management: Evidence from Corporate Investment

3:30pm-3:45pmBreak
3:45pm-4:30pmPaper 7:

Yeung Hau Yi Tracy, Lingnan University

Paper title: Does Relative Societal Trust Influence Audit Quality? Evidence from Multinational Group Audits

4:30pm-4:45pmClosing speech

Xin Wang

(Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)

*This conference is by invitation only.

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24 August

2022 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference

2022 Hong Kong Junior Accounting Faculty Conference
[Programme Rundown]
9:00am-9:15amWelcome Speech

Pingyang Gao

(Area Head of Accounting and Law, HKU Business School)

 

9:15am-10:00amPaper 1:

Charles Kang, University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Divestitures, Classification Uncertainty, and Stock Market Mispricing

 

10:00am-10:45amPaper 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-11:00amBreak
11:00am-11:45amPaper 3:

John Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Do Corporate Income Tax Assessments Affect Pricing Strategy?

 

11:45pm-12:30pmPaper 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-2:00pmLunch
2:00pm-2:45pmPaper 5:

Lawrence Lei, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Inclusive Board Representation? Views on Diverse Directors from HK Listed Companies

 

2:45pm-3:30pmPaper 6:

Liwei Weng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Paper title: Mutual Fund Strategic Disclosure

 

3:30pm-3:45pmBreak
3:45pm-4:30pmPaper 7:

Kelvin Yeung, City University of Hong Kong

Paper title: Audit Partners’ Cultural Heritage, Audit Outcomes, and Client Financial Reporting Choices

 

4:30pm-5:15pmPaper 8:

Ray Wang, Lingnan University

Paper title: Contemptuous CEOs and Management Forecasts

 

5:15pm-5:30pmClosing 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.
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18 July

HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management

HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management
June 29 -30, 2022 | Information Systems (IS) Part
  
[Test] HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management 

Keynote

Prof. Andrew Burton-Jones (University of Queensland)

“Views from MISQ: The world of the text”

 

[Test] HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management

 

 

 

Keynote

Prof. Yong Tan (University of Washington)

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

 

[Test] HKU Summer Workshop on Innovation and Information Management 

Keynote

Prof. Han Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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

 

Lionel Zhepeng Li

 

 

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”

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

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