Faculty of Business Administration Copycats: how smart companies use imitation to gain a strategic edge Xiaoming Huo Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract Inference (aka predictive modeling) is in the core of many data science problems. Traditional approaches could be either statistically or computationally efficient, however not [...]
Faculty of Business Administration Copycats: how smart companies use imitation to gain a strategic edge Oded Shenkar Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management, Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University Abstract Contrary to conventional wisdom, imitation often generates a better economic return than [...]
Faculty of Business Administration Do Banks Price Director Reputation? Evidence from Corporate Financial Frauds Guo-Liang TIAN Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics Southern University of Science and Technology Abstract In this paper, we propose a new multivariate Laplace distribution from normal variance mixture models, called as [...]
Faculty of Business Administration Do Banks Price Director Reputation? Evidence from Corporate Financial Frauds Prof. In-Mu Haw Professor of Accounting Texas Christian University Abstract Using corporate financial fraud as a shock to the reputation of directors with multiple directorships, we find that bank lenders charge significantly [...]
Faculty of Business Administration Carrot or stick? Testing lender information sharing hypotheses Prof. Xiumin Martin Washington University in St. Louis Abstract We examine the effect of lender credit reporting on borrowers’ loan take-up and default decision. In a pair of natural field experiments at an online [...]
Faculty of Business Administration Institutional complexity and global strategies by emerging market MNEs Prof. Yadong LUO Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and professor of management University of Miami Abstract In this presentation I’ll submit my thoughts on how to better define institutional complexity that characterizes emerging [...]
Faculty of Business Administration When will the trickle-down effect of abusive supervision be alleviated? The roles of power distance and traditional cultures Dr. Alice HON Associate Professor School of Hotel & Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Abstract Recent studies are increasingly interested in the dark [...]
Faculty of Business Administration On Time and frequency-varying Okun’s Coefficient: A new approach based on empirical mode decomposition Prof. Myeong Jun Kim Assistant Professor School of Economics and Commerce of South China University of Technology Abstract This study revisits the time-varying Okun’s law, using U.S. data [...]
Faculty of Business Administration An Empirical Assessment of Characteristics and Optimal Portfolios Prof. Huacheng ZHANG Associate Professor of Finance Institute of Financial Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Abstract We empirically link measurable characteristics to CRRA investors’ first-order conditions. We mitigate overfitting with a loss [...]
Faculty of Business Administration FBE The currency composition of international reserves, demand for international reserves, and global safe assets Professor Joshua Aizenman Robert R. and Katheryn A. Dockson Chair in Economics and International Relations University of Southern California, USA Abstract This paper examines determinants of the [...]
