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Professor Chen LIN joined The University of Hong Kong (HKU) as Chair of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Economics (now HKU Business School) in 2013. Before joining HKU, he was on the faculty team of the Department of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). At CUHK, he became Full Professor in Finance in 2010 and was awarded the Choh-Ming Li Professorship in Finance in 2012. He received his Bachelor of Engineering from the South China University of Technology in 2000 and a MBA (2004), M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2006) from Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. His research interests include banking and financial institutions, corporate finance, financial technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, finance and economic development.
Chen’s papers are published or forthcoming in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Management Science, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, The Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, and others. His papers also received various awards such as the Jensen Prize (First Prize) for the Best Papers Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations, The JFE All Star paper, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Asian Academic Competition Research Paper Award, the Hong Kong Asian Capital Market Research Prize awarded by CFA Institute and HKSFA, two Best Paper Awards at the 9th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, the Bureau van Dijk prize in Corporate Finance at the 31st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference and the best paper award at the 31st Asian Finance Association Annual Conference. He currently serves on the editorial boards of various international journals including Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Comparative Economics. He has been invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in economics. He is the Principal Investigator of many RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grants, the Project Coordinator of a RGC Theme-based Research Grant focusing on Financial Technology, Inclusion and Stability, a Co-Principal Investigator of a RGC Theme-based Research Grant, the first large-scale, theme-based business research grant in Hong Kong and a Co-Principal Investigator of the first Fintech related Research Impact Fund in Hong Kong.
Chen’s works and views have been presented in major finance conferences such as American Finance Association annual conference, European Finance Association annual conference and Western Finance Association annual conference, and various conferences held by institutions such as Asian Development Bank, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Security Regulatory Commission, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hoover Institute at Stanford University, International Monetary Fund, National Bureau of Economic Research and the World Bank and covered by BBC World TV, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, China Daily, CNNMoney, CFA Digest, Hong Kong Satellite TV, VoxEU, Wall Street Journal (Real Time Economics) and World Bank Doing Business Report. He has provided consulting services for the Asian Development Bank, the Bank of International Settlement, China Construction Bank (Asia), Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council, Qianhai Institute of Innovative Research, and the World Bank. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He served as a panel member of the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong and the RAE exercise conducted by University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. He is also a Currency Board Committee member of the Hong Kong Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, a Fintech Advisory Group member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and an Advisory Council member and a research fellow at HKIMR of Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
從去年開始，在意識到傳統的金融市場發展會遇到一定瓶頸的情況下，香港便提出了發展Web3.0的戰略。Web3.0與Web2.0的主要區別之一在於使用者規模：目前Web3.0的用戶數量大約為1-2億，遠小於Web2. 0的用戶體量。 要實現Web3.0作為第三代互聯網的全面普及，使用者規模需起碼需要達到10億體量。但是要從1-2億增長到10億，中間還有很大的一個Gap。要解決這個Gap，一是傳統投資人能直接投Web3.0的資產；二是讓Web3.0上的投資人可以投資傳統資產；三是推動Web2.0與Web3.0的結合。
This paper studies how globalization affects the corporate tax policies of U.S. manufacturing firms. Using U.S.-granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations as a quasi-natural experiment, we find a significant increase in tax reduction activities for firms facing higher exposure to Chinese imports. The effect is more pronounced for firms with higher managerial slack. We also find that the effect is stronger for firms in less diversified products market and faster changing industries. We also show that U.S. firms facing higher Chinese import competition are more likely to engage in other tax-motivated activities: acquisition of subsidiaries in low-tax regions and suspected transfer pricing. Furthermore, we explore the 2017 tax cut and the recent U.S.-China trade dispute and find that firms engage less in tax reduction activities after the 2017 tax cut and after the tariff increase for Chinese imports.
Does a bank’s dependence on different external funding sources shape its voluntary disclosure of information? We evaluate whether economic shocks that increase the supply of bank deposits alter the cost–benefit calculations of bank managers concerning voluntary information disclosure. We measure information disclosure using 10-K filings, 8-K filings, and earnings guidance. As for the funding shock, we use unanticipated technological innovations that triggered shale development and booms in bank deposits. Further analyses suggest that greater exposure to shale development reduced information disclosure by relaxing the incentives for managers to disclose information to attract funds from external capital markets.
Take the recent study by Chen Lin and Mingzhu Tai from the HKU Business School, conducted with collaborators from the University of California, Berkeley and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Their paper addressed a fundamental worry for almost everyone during the pandemic: Money. Specifically, they examined how people in the U.S. saved money in response to COVID-19.
The online trading platform Alibaba provides financial technology (FinTech) credit for millions of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a novel data set of daily sales and an internal credit score threshold that governs the allocation of credit, we apply a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (RDD) to explore the causal effect of credit access on firm volatility. We find that credit access significantly reduces firm sales volatility and that the effect is stronger for firms with fewer alternative sources of financing. We further look at firm exit probability and find that firms with access to FinTech credit are less likely to go bankrupt or exit the business in the future. Additional channel tests reveal that firms with FinTech credit invest more in advertising and product/sector diversification, particularly during business downturns, which serves as effective mechanisms through which credit access reduces firm volatility. Overall, our findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of FinTech credit in MSMEs.
中國在不同縣市實施的最低工資政策有所不同。此研究透過使用中國製造業企業的工業普查數據，探討最低工資政策如何影響資本投資。利用最低工資政策在縣市邊界的不連續性，我們發現最低工資政策會增加資本投資。企業的勞動密集度越高，技術提升空間越大，以及企業無法將勞動成本轉嫁予消費者時，其對於最低工資政策所作出的投資反應越大。研究中一項基於縣市管轄權變化的自然實驗進一步確定了最低工資與資本投資的因果關係。
我們透過分析舌蠅於前殖民地時期在不同地域的生存條件差異，來研究流行病對現代金融發展的影響。在非洲，舌蠅傳播一種對人類有害且導致牲畜死亡的流行病。利用新的地理參考數據，我們發現歷史上位於較容易受到流行病影響的地區的公司和家庭，現今獲得外源融資的機會較小。通過探索這些渠道，我們發現歷史上蟲害成災地區的居民較難信任他人和金融機構、共享資訊，以及學習和採用新的金融科技。
為什麼在疫情期間會有大量存款匯入銀行？我們發現，銀行分行若位於2019冠狀病毒病感染率較高的地區，它們的存款利率較位於感染率較低的地區的銀行分行（即便是隸屬同一家銀行集團）為低。信貸提取、國家政策（如薪資保護計劃）以及避險措施並非導致這些銀行分行之間出現存款利率變化的原因。證據顯示，2019冠狀病毒病感染率較高的地區與當地民眾對其就業前景和收入減少的焦慮有連帶關係，導致民眾減少支出和增加銀行存款。
2021中關村論壇於9月24至28日在中國北京舉辦。中關村論壇乃國家級平台，致力促進全球高科技創新交流合作。香港大學經管學院副院長林晨教授獲邀於 9月25日為金融科技平行論壇擔任主旨演講嘉賓，通過視頻就《科技信貸市場發展的一些思考》作重點分享。
研究團隊收集來自 61 個經濟體，合共超過6700間公司的數據，評估企業特質與股票收益表現，以及新冠疫情個案之間的關聯性。研究發現，儘管新冠疫情導致股票收益減少，但某些企業錄得的跌幅較為輕微，而這些企業具有以下特質：在 2020 年前公司的財務狀況較好（如擁有較多現金和未提取的信貸額、較少的總債務和短期債務，以及維持較高的利潤水準）、全球供應鏈和客戶地點受新冠疫情影響較小，積極推動企業社會責任的活動，以及較少地位穩固的高管人員。此外，家族企業（尤其是家族直接控股和僱傭職業經理人的家族企業）、大企業或政府控制的企業的股票回報表現較佳，而由對沖基金和其他資產管理公司大量投資的公司則表現遜色。在疫情期間，股票市場給予擁有較低管理層所有權的企業正面評價，卻給予擁有較高管理層所有權的企業負面評價。
