Call for Papers and Participants | Abacus | Special Issue Conference on ‘Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance in China’

Call for Papers and ParticipantsAbacusSpecial Issue Conference on ‘Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance in China’6-7 June 2020Beijing, ChinaConference Paper Submission Deadline:1 March 2020Keynote Speaker:Professor Tak-Jun (TJ) Wong. He is the Joseph A. DeBell Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Accounting at USC Marshall Business School. He coordinates the USC Mars...

“2019·光華創新創業計劃大賽”通知書

?“2019·光華創新創業計劃大賽”開始招募啦！光華創新創業大賽由北京大學宅男深夜社区創新創業中心主辦，旨在爲北京大學同學提供一個制定商業計劃、提高創新創業能力的機會，爲具有創新意識和創造力的同學們提供一個學習交流的平台。關于這場比賽，你應該了解的是——八屆經驗自2011年首屆光華創新創業大賽成功舉辦，至今已舉辦了八屆，舉辦經驗成熟，反響良好，是北大同學們創新創業的良好交流機會。其中“ofo、趣尋”等耳熟...

Seminar活動预告：《加强以行为金融为导向的投资者教育》

会议报名 | 2019统计网络与深度学习研討會

?在当代前沿数据科学领域，随着数据收集技术的提升，如何分析研究复杂网络数据以及文本、图像大数据逐渐成为重要课题。2019统计网络与深度学习研討會将于12月18日至19日在北京大学举办。本次会议将邀请国内外优秀统计学者在社会网络、文本挖掘、深度学习、个性化医疗、随机矩阵理论等重要热点领域做前沿学术报告。报告内容涵盖这些领域的最新理论成果和对热点问题的探讨研究。会议旨在丰富研究生知识结构、开拓视野、激发创新...

会议通知 | 第一届（2019）统计学青年学者与产业论坛

博觀約取，厚積薄發，爲響應十九大“産學研協同創新，邁向新時代征程”的號召，促進中國數據産業的發展，進一步加強統計學（以及相關數據學科）同數據産業的交叉融合，由全國工業統計學教學研究會青年統計學家協會主辦，北京大學宅男深夜社区承辦的“第一屆（2019）統計學青年學者與産業論壇”將于2019年12月7月（周六）在北京大學舉行。論壇將邀請多名獲得國家傑出青年科學基金和國家優秀青年科學基金的專家學者，以及多家國內...

活動报名 | AI系列讲座：智慧城市，让生活更美好

智慧城市自2012年住建部啓動國家智慧城市的試點工作之後，便受到各地方政府的重視，並將智慧城市作爲未來城市發展的方向。隨著國家治理體系和治理能力現代化的不斷推進，隨著“創新、協調、綠色、開放、共享”發展理念的不斷深入，隨著網絡強國戰略、國家大數據戰略、“互聯網+”行動計劃的實施和“數字中國”建設的不斷發展，城市也被賦予了新的內涵和新的要求。這不僅推動了傳統意義上的智慧城市向新型智慧城市演進，更爲新型...

活動报名| 2019金融改革与创新高级论坛暨北京大学曹凤岐金融发展基金第八届颁奖仪式

“2019金融改革與創新高級論壇暨北京大學曹鳳岐金融發展基金第八屆頒獎儀式”由北京大學曹鳳岐金融發展基金主辦，北京大學宅男深夜社区承辦，北京大學經濟學院、北京大學光華金融協會協辦。2019年對中國金融發展是不平凡的一年。在國際上，中美貿易戰已經處于膠著狀態，並已經蔓延到金融領域。各國貨幣政策的放松正在重新成爲潮流，大量負利率的債務工具已經出現。數字貨幣的發展，正在迅速改變傳統的支付方式和貨幣理念。在國...

9月21日北大光華思想力公开课广州站邀请函

?北京大学光华管理学院拟定于2019年9月21日（周六）下午在广州举办2019北大光華思想力公开课—— 企业蓄能：逆袭“下半场”，诚邀您拨冗出席。（点击文末“阅读原文”报名）课程亮点全球经济衰退几成共识，越是相信衰退，或许它更会加速到来。互联网从解放C端（消费者或用户）到激活B端（企业或组织)，消费从分级到升级，资本市场改革由点及面...... 从上半场的高速度到下半场的高质量，中国经济正全力寻找增长新动能。?2019...

8月31日北大光華思想力公开课杭州站邀请函

?北京大学光华管理学院拟定于2019年8月31日（周六）下午在杭州举办2019北大光華思想力公开课—— 创新经济：裂变与突围，诚邀您拨冗出席。课程亮点站在历史的变局中，如何应对现在时点中的“危”与“机”？ 如何让真正代表先进生产力的科技创新企业成为资本市场的主流，推动中国经济高质量发展？科技创新是九败一胜，资本如何激励创新者不断突破？在广袤的中国农村实现“数字经济下的跨越式发展”，中国的“淘宝村”现象蕴含着...

Call for Papers | China Economics Summer Institute

?? ? ? ? ? ??Call for Papers - Deadline: 6 May 2019 (Monday)China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)?? ?17-18 August 2019Guanghua School of ManagementPeking University, ChinaThe 12th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place between 17-18 August 2019 at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.The objective of CESI is to create a network and community of top level scholar...

Round Funding Period Heuristics and Kickstarter Campaign Success

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-06)Topic:?Round Funding Period Heuristics and Kickstarter Campaign SuccessSpeaker:?Jun Yang, Indiana UniversityTime:?Wednesday, 29 April, 10:00-11:30 Beijing TimeLocation:?Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:On Kickstarter, the largest reward-based crowdfunding platform, over 63% of projects have a round-number funding period (i.e., a multiple of 5 days),...

The Market for Data Privacy

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-05)Topic:?The Market for Data PrivacySpeaker:?Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Time:?Wednesday, 8 April, 16:00-17:30 Beijing TimeLocation:?Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:We scrape a comprehensive set of US firms’ privacy policies to facilitate research on the supply of data privacy. We analyze these...

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-04)Topic:?Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management IncentivesSpeaker:?Martin C. Schmalz, University of OxfordTime:?Wednesday, 1 April, 16:00-17:30 Beijing TimeLocation:?Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:When one firm’s strategy affects other firms’ value, optimal executive incentives depend on whether shareholders have interests in only one o...

Don’t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-03)Topic:?Don’t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual FundsSpeaker:?Umit Gurun, University of Texas at DallasTime:?Wednesday, 18 March, 10:00-11:15am Beijing TimeLocation:?Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:We provide evidence that mutual fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and s...

Brain Drain: The Impact of Air Pollution on Firm Performance

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-02)Topic:?Brain Drain: The Impact of Air Pollution on Firm PerformanceSpeaker:?Bohui Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenTime:?Wednesday, 4 March, 10:00-11:30 am Beijing TimeLocation:?Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:We hypothesize that firms located in more polluted areas are less able to recruit and retain quality human capital. First...

China's Model of Managing the Financial System

Finance?Online?Seminar（2020-01)Topic:?China's Model of Managing the Financial SystemSpeaker:?Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBERTime:?Wednesday, 26 February, 10:00-11:30 am Beijing TimeLocation: Microsoft Teams Online conference roomAbstract:China’s economic model involves active government intervention in financial markets. We develop a theoretical framework that anchors government inte...

Technology Development and Corporate Mergers

Finance Seminar（2020-03)Topic:?Technology Development and Corporate MergersSpeaker:?Danqing Mei, Columbia Business SchoolTime:?Friday, 17 January,09:00-10:30Location:?Room 217, Guanghua Building 2Abstract:I examine the motives as well as consequences of merger-and-acquisition (M&A) transactions between companies with varying degrees of technological overlap. High-overlap deals, with more colla...

Government-Sponsored Wholesale Funding and the Industrial Organization of Bank Lending

Finance Seminar（2020-02)Topic:?Government-Sponsored Wholesale Funding and the Industrial Organization of Bank LendingSpeaker:?Dayin Zhang, UC BerkeleyTime:?Monday, 13 January, 10:00-11:30Location:?Room 217, Guanghua Building 2Abstract:Several wholesale funding markets are dominated by government agencies such as the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB), which collectively channel hundreds of billions...

A Unified Theory of the Term Structure and the Beta Anomaly

Finance Seminar（2020-01)Topic:?A Unified Theory of the Term Structure and the Beta AnomalySpeaker:?Yicheng Zhu, The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaTime:?Wednesday, 10 January, 10:00-11:30Location:?Room 217, Guanghua Building 2Abstract:Existing consumption-based asset pricing framework implies a strong connection between the agent’s risk aversion, elasticity of intertemporal substit...

Accounting Conservatism and Relational Contracting & Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Mutual Monitoring

Accounting Seminar（2020-02）Topic:Accounting Conservatism and Relational Contracting &?Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Mutual MonitoringSpeaker:Jonathan Glover, Columbia University, Graduate School of BusinessTime:Monday, Jan 6th, 10:00-11:30 a.mPlace:Room 217, Guanghua Building 2Abstract:“Accounting Conservatism and Relational Contracting"Conservatism is a pervasive feature of ...