2021 CAPANA Virtual Conference Schedule
July 2-3, 2021
Shenzhen, China

(All time refers to Beijing Time)

July 2
8:00-8:10am Opening Remarks
Wei Xiong, Academic Dean, School of Management and Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen

8:10-9:10am Paper 1
Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Transparency of Corporate Site Visits Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?
Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng, and Yuan Zou
Presenter: Yuan Zou (Harvard Business School)
Discussant: Jenny Tucker (University of Florida)

9:10-9:20am Break

9:20-10:20am Paper 2
Proprietary Information Cost of Contracting with the Government
Jiapeng He, Kevin Li, Ningzhong Li, and Weining Zhang
Presenter: Ningzhong Li (University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: John Campbell (University of Georgia)

10:20-10:30am Break

10:30-11:30am Paper 3
How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
Sean Cao, Wei Jiang, Baozhong Yang, and Alan L. Zhang
Presenter: Alan Zhang (Georgia State University)
Discussant:Yanyan Wang (Michigan State University)

11:30-11:40am Break

11:40-12:40pm Paper 4
Do You Hear the People’s Saying? – The Voice of Individual Investors
Jacky Chau, Shufang Lai, and Yong George Yang
Presenter: Shufang Lai (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Discussant: Daniel Cohen (Texas A&M University)

July 3

8:30-9:30am Paper 5
The Information Mechanism in Corporate Citizenship: Evidence from COVID-19
Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
Presenter: Lisa Yao Liu (Columbia Business School)
Discussant: Frank Zhang (Yale University)

9:30-9:40am Break

9:40-10:40am Paper 6
The Road Less Traveled: Alternative Data Used By Financial Analysts
Feng Chi, Byoung-Hyoun Hwang, and Yaping Zheng
Presnter: Yaping Zheng (McGill University)
Discussant: Stan Markov (University of Texas at Dallas)

10:40-10:50am Break

10:50-11:50am Paper 7
CEOs’ Prosocial Behavior, Their Careers and Corporate Policies
Mei Feng, Weili Ge, Zhejia Ling, and Wei Ting Loh
Presenter: Weili Ge (University of Washington)
Discussant: Hai Lu (University of Toronto)

11:50-12:00pm
Online Polling for Best Paper Award and Best Discussant Award
Introduction to President-elect and CAPANA 2022

12:00-12:10pm
Concluding remarks and award announcements.

Time Conversion Example
Beijing Time: July 2, 8:00 am =
Eastern Time: July 1, 8:00 pm =
Central Time: July 1, 7:00 pm =
Pacific Time: July 1, 5:00 pm

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