2024 CAPANA Annual Research Conference Program
1) Doctoral consortium (Jun 11, 2024, Tue) – K.K. Leung Building Room 315
9 am – 12 pm Valeri Nikolaev (University of Chicago)
12 pm – 2 pm: Lunch at Senior Common Room
2 pm – 3.20 pm: Jeffrey Ng (HKU)
3.40 pm – 5 pm: Pingyang Gao (HKU)
2) CAPANA conference (Jun 12-13, 2024, Wed-Thu) – Rayson Huang Theatre (RHT)
Paper presentation format: 15 mins presentation, 20 mins discussion, 15 mins Q&A.
Day 1 (Jun 12, 2024) – 6 conference papers
8:30 am to 8:40 am: Welcome speech by Chen Lin (Associate Vice-President and Stelux Professor in Finance, HKU)
8:40 am to 9:40 am: Keynote speech by Valeri Nikolaev (University of Chicago)
9:40 am to 10 am: Coffee break
10 am to 10.50 am: Presentation and discussion of paper 1:
“Feedback on Emerging Corporate Policies”
Presenter: Sean Cao, University of Maryland
Discussant: John (Xuefeng) Jiang, Michigan State University
10.50 am to 11.40 am: Presentation and discussion of paper 2:
“Dare to Say No? Externalities of Employee Employment Protection on Financial Misreporting”
Presenter: Hong Xie, University of Kentucky
Discussant: Huai Zhang, Nanyang Technological University
11.40 am to 12.30 pm: Presentation and discussion of paper 3:
“The Information Content of Visual Emotions from Investor Days”
Presenter: Danqi Hu, Peking University
Discussant: Frank Zhang, Yale University
1 pm to 2.30 pm: Lunch at Level 14, Senior Common Room
2.30 pm to 3.20 pm: Presentation and discussion of paper 4:
“Do Information Processing Costs Matter to Regulators? Evidence from U.S. Mortgage Companies’ Supervision”
Presenter: Philip Wang, University of Florida
Discussant: Aneesh Raghunandan, London School of Economics
3.20 pm to 4.10 pm: Presentation and discussion of paper 5:
“Institutional Investors’ Behind-the-Scene Monitoring and ESG Disclosure”
Presenter: Yue Zhang, Sun Yat Sun University
Discussant: Albert Tsang, Southern University of Science and Technology
4.10 pm to 4:30 pm: Coffee break
4:30 pm to 5.20 pm: Presentation and discussion of paper 6:
“Social Media, User Anonymity, Real-name Verification, Wisdom of Crowds, Retail Investor, Earnings Announcements”
Presenter: Yakun (Eric) Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Discussant: Susan Shu, Boston College
5.40 pm to 6.30 pm: Travel to dinner restaurant, Maxim’s Palace by bus
6.30 pm to 8.30 pm: Dinner at Maxim’s Palace
Day 2 (Jun 13, 2024) – 3 conference papers
8.30 am to 9.30 am: Keynote speech by Lakshmanan Shivakumar (London Business School)
9.30 am to 10.20 am: Presentation and discussion of paper 7:
“Inside the “Black Box” of China’s Corporate ESG Practice: Which Stakeholders Matter?”Presenter: Emma Wang, Cornell University
Discussant: Xiumin Martin, Washington University at St. Louis
10:20 am to 10.40 am: Coffee break
10.40 am to 11.30 am: Presentation and discussion of paper 8:
“Breaking the Language Barriers? Machine Translation Technology and Analysts’ Forecasts for Multinational Firms”
Presenter: Bingxu Fang, Singapore Management University
Discussant: Nancy Su, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11.30 am to 12.20 pm: Presentation and discussion of paper 9:
“A Game of Disclosing “Other Events”: A Message to Retail Investors”
Presenter: Tao Shu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Haifeng You, Tsinghua University
12.20 am to 12.30 pm: Voting for the Best Paper Award and Best Discussant Award
12.30 pm to 12.45 pm: Award Presentation and closing remarks by Pingyang Gao (CAPANA president)
12.45 pm to 2 pm: Lunch, buffet style, outside Rayson Huang Theatre
Afternoon social activity (optional):
2.30 pm onwards:
2 choices
- i) Trip to the Peak
- ii) Trip to Cheung Chau Island