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【Seminar】Competition and Quality: Evidence from High-Speed Rails and Airlines11 16th , 2021Title:CompetitionandQuality:EvidencefromHigh-SpeedRailsandAirlinesTime:November19(Friday)10:00-11:30Location:Room426,SchoolofEconomicsSpeaker:Prof.LongWangBio:LongWangisanassistantprofessorintheSchoolofEntrepreneurshipandManagementattheShanghaiTechUniversityinChina.HereceivedaPh.D.inRealEstateFinancefromtheNationalUniversityofSingaporein2018.Hisresearchinterestslieinurbaneconomics,realestatefinance,andChineseeconomy.HehaspublishedinacademicjournalssuchasJournalofPublicEconomics,JournalofUrbanEco MORE > |
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【Registration】Managing the New Era in Business & Society - Virtual Joint PhD Workshop organized by...05 17th , 2021ManagingtheNewErainBusinessSocietyVirtualJointWorkshoporganizedby:TilburgSchoolofEconomicsandManagement(TiSEM),TilburgUniversityTilburgSchoolofSocialandBehavioralSciences(TSB),TilburgUniversitySchoolofManagement(SOM),ZhejiangUniversitySchoolofEconomics(SOE),ZhejiangUniversityDate:Thursday,May27,20219.00-12:20(Amsterdamtime)/15:00-18:20(Beijingtime)WearehappytoannouncethethirdTiU-ZJUworkshopwilltakeplaceon27May.TheworkshopisdedicatedtoresearchandbestpracticeofPhD’sworkonmanagingthenewerainbusines MORE > |
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Virtual Forum of the LMU China Academic Network11 13th , 2020VirtualForumoftheLMUChinaAcademicNetworkTheLMU-ChinaAcademicNetwork(ChAN)isauniversitynetworkbetweenLMUMunichandtheChineseUniversityofHongKong,FudanUniversity,NanjingUniversity,PekingUniversity,RenminUniversity,ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity,SunYat-senUniversity,TongjiUniversity,TsinghuaUniversity,theUniversityofHongKongandZhejiangUniversity.WhatistheVirtualForum2020allabout?Duetotheglobalpandemicour5thLMU-ChANScientificForum,whichwasplannedtotakeplaceduringthistimehadtobepostponedtoJuly9-11,2021.Ne MORE > |
AFR Seminar:The Effects of Legalizing Open Market Share Repurchases:International Evidence03 19th , 2019To causally identify the effects of legalizing the open market share repurchases on firm value and behaviors, we construct a unique dataset of 38 countries’ deregulation laws and utilize the yearly variation across the international market on the restrictions for identification. We first find that the legalization increases firm value and decreases firms’ cash holding. We then investigated several channels that firms may spend cash, and find that the legalization significantly reduces capital ex MORE > |
Seminar: How Investors Can Beat the Market: A Master Class by ESSEC Business School03 12th , 2019Do index funds really outperform fund managers? Studies have shown that beating the market turns out to be even harder than we thought. As a result, the notion that investors are better off investing in market indexes instead of hiring fund managers to run their investment portfolios has gained much traction in recent years. With fund managers charging higher fees than index funds, the returns for active investors can be lower. Smart Beta is a new investment strategy that aims to capture return MORE > |
The School of Economics is Coming to AEA Annual Meeting for Talents Recruitment11 20th , 2018The online application portal is now open, please submit your application here by November 20 MORE > |
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AFR Seminar: Growth Through Inter-sectoral Knowledge Linkages10 19th , 2018Title:GrowthThroughInter-sectoralKnowledgeLinkagesPresentor:JieCai,ShanghaiUniversityofFinanceEconomics,AssociateProfessorTime:October19(Friday),13:30pmto15:30pmLocation:Room236,SchoolofEconomicsAbstract:Themajorityofinnovationsaredevelopedbymulti-sectorfirms.Theknowledgeneededtoinventnewproductsismoreeasilyadaptedfromsomesectorsthanfromothers.Westudythisnetworkofknowledgelinkagesbetweensectorsanditsimpactonfirminnovationandaggregategrowth.Wefirstdocumentasetofsectoral-levelandfirm-levelobservat MORE > |