2ND CHINA-EUROPE CONFERENCE:
TRANSPARENCY, ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE
May 27-28, 2016
CUHK Campus, Hong Kong, China
May 27, 2016, Friday
09:00 am – 09:20 am Registration
09:20 am – 09:30 am Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks by T.J. Wong (Director of Center for Institutions and Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Welcoming Remarks by Tianyu Zhang (Associate Director of Center for Institutions and Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Morning Sessions
Session Chair: Zhaoyang Gu (Director of School of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
09:30 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Speech: Accounting and Governance Challenges for the East and the West
S.P. Kothari (MIT Sloan School of Management)
10:30 am – 10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50 am – 11:50 am
China’s Model of Managing the Financial System
Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Michael Sockin (University of Texas at Austin)
* Wei Xiong (Princeton University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
11:50 pm – 02:00 pm Luncheon
Afternoon Sessions
Session Chair: George Yong Yang (School of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
02:00 pm – 03:00 pm
Political Economy of Making an Authoritarian Constitution: The Case of China
Di Guo (The University of Hong Kong)
Kun Jiang (Roehampton University)
Yutong Wang (UCLA)
* Chenggang Xu (The University of Hong Kong)
03:00 pm – 04:00 pm
The Political Economy of Social Media in China
Bei Qin (The University of Hong Kong)
David Stromberg (Stockholm University)
* Yanhui Wu (University of Southern California)
04:00 pm – 04:20 pm Coffee Break
04:20 pm – 05:20 pm
The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt’s Arab Spring
Daron Acemoğlu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tarek Alexander Hassan (The University of Chicago)
* Ahmed Tahoun (London Business School)
05:30 pm – 08:30pm Banquet
May 28, 2016, Saturday
Morning Sessions
Session Chair: Donghui Wu (Associate Director of Center for Institutions and Governance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
09:00 am – 10:00 am
Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations: Event Study Evidence from China ( Paper)
Chen Lin (The University of Hong Kong)
Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
* Bernard Yeung (National University of Singapore)
Xiaofeng Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Transporting Transparency: Director Foreign Experience and Corporate Information Environment ( Paper)
Guanmin Liao (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Mark (Shuai) Ma (American University)
* Xiaoyun Yu (Indiana University and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)
11:00 am – 11:20 am Coffee Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
Political Bias of Corporate News: Role of Conglomeration Reform in China ( Paper)
* Joseph Piotroski (Stanford University)
T.J. Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tianyu Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12:20 pm – 12:25 pm Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks by Kalok Chan (Dean of CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12:25 pm – 02:00 pm Lunch Buffet
Asterisks denote presenters.