Faculty & Research
Seminar
Research Areas
OCT
21
- October 14, 2026
- Decision Science
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Zheshuai Yang (Zhejiang University)
This research examines the psychological processes and factors that shape how recipients respond to time-saving versus financial incentives for cancer screening. Four studies using in-depth interviews, a survey, a field experiment, and a controlled experiment in the context of colorectal cancer scre…
OCT
14
- October 8, 2026
- Economics
Do Carbon Border Taxes Induce Reshoring? Early Evidence from the EU CBAM
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Weikai Li (City University of Hong Kong)
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) imposes a carbon price on imports to level the playing field between EU and non-EU (NEU) suppliers and curb carbon leakage. Using FactSet Revere supply-chain data and a difference-in-differences design, we examine how CBAM reshapes global supply chain…
OCT
5
- October 8, 2026
- Economics
Refusing to concede? War and everyday rivalry online
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
David Smerdon (University of Queensland)
How far does war reach into everyday life? We study 32.4 million online chess games played by 33,687 players from the belligerent countries of three conflicts: Armenia–Azerbaijan (2020), Russia–Ukraine (2022), and Israel–Palestine (2023). Following conflict onset, players became less likely to resig…
DEC
3
- November 26, 2025
- Accounting
Unearthing the Lower-Tier Suppliers: Evidence from Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Jin Kyung Choi (Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong)
We examine whether mandatory supply chain disclosure enhances firms’ ability to manage supply chain risk. We exploit the U.S. conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) rule, which requires public firms to trace tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold through all supplier tiers and publicly report sourcing from c…
SEP
30
- October 8, 2026
- Finance
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Sterling Huang (New York University Shanghai)
This paper provides the first large-sample evidence on the design and economic consequences of M&A contracts. Using a hand-collected dataset of M&A contracts filed with the SEC between 1996 and 2021, we document a sharp increase in contract length and complexity, with covenants emerging as the faste…
NOV
26
- November 20, 2025
- Economics
Fair Division of a Random Prize with Unequal Entitlements
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Wonki Cho (Korea University)
We study the problem of dividing a prize with random payoffs among a group of agents. The agents may have varying levels of entitlements, or shares, to the prize and only the means of their payoff distributions are known. In the design of allocation rules, our central objective is to guarantee, in e…
JUN
10
- June 4, 2026
- Accounting
Beyond the Shadows: Dark Web and Financial Markets
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Guang Ma (Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University)
We examine the impact of dark web on financial markets. Using Large Language Models to analyze 297,935 posts, we find that dark web signals lead surface web by seven days, reflecting significant verification latency. Dark web posts exhibiting negative sentiment or high financial specificity predict…
NOV
19
- November 19, 2025
- Management
Span of Control as a Strategic Lever for Firm Growth
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Jaeho Choi (HKUST)
The study develops a computational model that formalizes how the span of control dynamically shapes firm growth through trade-offs inherent in organizational information processing. When cognitive constraints on attention and evaluation interact, an intermediate span of control emerges as optimal, a…
JUN
5
- June 4, 2026
- Accounting
Interlocking Directors and Technology Exclusion
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Time
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
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Venue
90402 International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Hojun Seo(Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University)
We investigate whether interlocking directorates influence technology licensing and the exclusion of peer firms from accessing essential technologies. We find that firms connected through interlocking directors are more likely to enter into licensing agreements and that, following these interlock-dr…
NOV
12
- November 4, 2025
- Accounting
Strong-form relative performance evaluation: the attenuating role of public information
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Time
4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
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Venue
90403, International Hall
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Speaker
Prof. Junwook Yoo (Sungkyunkwan University)
This study endogenously derives the optimal relative performance evaluation with multiple correlated peer performances, which also incorporates strong-form relative performance evaluation. Under this model, managers’ compensations are perfectly insulated against exogenous shocks in peer performances…