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Liandong Zhang

 

Biography

Dr. Liandong Zhang is Professor of Accounting at School of Accountancy at the Singapore Management University. He joined Singapore Management University in 2017 as the Associate Dean (Research) at School of Accountancy. Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing and received his PhD Degree in Accounting from Nanyang Technological University in 2008. He has previously taught at the Concordia University in Canada and City University of Hong Kong. His current research interests include financial reporting quality, corporate governance, and taxation. He currently teaches Accounting Theory.

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Huai Zhang

 

Biography

Dr Huai Zhang received his Ph.D in Accounting from Columbia University in 2000. He taught at University of Illinois at Chicago and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at University of Hong Kong before joining Nanyang Business School in 2006. He has published in major accounting and finance journals, including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance and Review of Accounting Studies. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2004 International Finance Conference and the 2016 Midwest Finance Association Meeting. He was also the recipient of Nanyang Business School Research Excellence Award in 2011 and 2013. He sits on the editorial board of Review of Accounting and Finance and The International Journal of Accounting, both refereed academic journals, and is an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies. He is the keynote speaker at the 5th Annual International Conference on Accounting and Finance, the 1st Boya Management Accounting Research Forum, and the 14th International Symposium on Accounting Research in China. In recognition of his contributions to China-related studies and his efforts in nurturing local researchers, the Fujian Province Government in China conferred him the title of “Ming Jiang Scholar” (闽江学者) in 2015.

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Sterling HUANG

 

Biography

Dr. Sterling Huang joined Singapore Management University in 2014. He received his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD Business School. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers (Sydney) and a lecturer at Macquarie University Australia. He has published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Financial Studies, Strategic Management Journal, European Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. His work has been cited multiple times in major media outlets and practitioner forums, such as Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, INSEAD Knowledge, Harvard Business Review, Booz & Co Strategy & Business Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, American Banker Online, Finance & Development (IMF), the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and the Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder and a member of Institute of Chartered Accountant Australia.

 

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Peer Firm Selection and Executive Compensation: The Case of Dual-role Peers

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2006 Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules require firms to disclose how executive pay is determined by benchmarking total compensation at the competitive labor market level (compensation benchmarking) and by benchmarking performance targets in relative performance evaluation (performance benchmarking). Prior studies examining the selection of peer firms typically focus on one or the other benchmark. Using Incentive Lab’s detailed data on proxy statements from 2006 through 2015, we find that approximately 57% of the peers are used simultaneously for both compensation and performance benchmarking, a pattern largely ignored in prior literature. We label these peers as “dual-role peers” and show that firms can indeed succeed in selecting such peers in order to achieve high pay and yet low expected performance. Moreover, we find that the extent of such discretionary peer selection is positively associated with realized excess CEO pay, and negatively associated with ex-post stock performance in the subsequent year. Additional evidence shows that the power of CEOs to intervene the boards’ compensation decisions exacerbates the opportunistic peer selection. Our study provides new evidence on managerial self-serving behavior in compensation practices and highlights the importance of considering dual-role peers in compensation research.

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Government Ownership, Non-CEO Top Executives’ Horizontal Pay Dispersion and Firm Performance

Wei Jiang, Bin Ke, Hong Ru, and Yue Xu

Abstract
The objective of this study is to analyze the compensation practices of non-CEO top executives as a group measured by horizontal pay dispersion. We address two specific questions. First, we examine whether government ownership affects non-CEO executives’ horizontal pay dispersion. Second, we examine how such ownership-induced horizontal pay dispersion affects firm performance. We find that non-CEO top executives’ horizontal pay dispersion is lower in government-controlled firms (SOEs) than in privately-controlled firms (non-SOEs). We show that the difference in horizontal pay dispersion between SOEs and non-SOEs is consistent with the institutional differences between the two ownership types. There is evidence that such ownership-induced horizontal pay dispersion is associated with lower firm performance, suggesting that SOEs’ horizontal pay dispersion is suboptimal from the perspective of shareholder value maximization.

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YAO Song

Song Yao is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Professor Yao has won the 2012  Paul Green Best Paper Award and the 2009 John Howard Dissertation Award, both of which are sponsored by the American Marketing Association. He was the finalist for INFORMS Long Term Impact Award in 2017, the Frank Bass Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2011 and 2012, the John Little Best Paper Award in 2009 and 2011. He has also been selected by the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) as one of the MSI Young Scholars of 2017. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. Professor Yao’s research interests include quantitative marketing, online marketing, advertising, pricing, and customer management. His publications appear in leading academic journals, including Management Science, Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. Professor Yao received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Duke University, M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and B.A. in Economics from the Renmin University of China.

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Oriana- Company information across the Asia-Pacific region in the trial

2014-04-21

ORIANA is a comprehensive database containing financial information on over 20 million public and private companies in 46 countries including the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Each company is part of a default peer group based on its activity codes; integral graphs and a specific report demonstrate its position in this peer group. A company tree diagram instantly illustrates the structure of the group.

 

Language：  Chinese/English

Trial Period：  Until Dec 31, 2014

Access:   https://oriana.bvdep.com/ip (On campus)

Update: 　Daily

 

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Bankscope in the trial

2014-04-21

Bankscope combines widely-sourced data with flexible software for searching and analysing banks. Bankscope contains comprehensive information on banks across the globe. You can use it to research individual banks and find banks with specific profiles and analyse them. Bankscope has up to 16 years of detailed accounts for each bank. Bankscope recently added the Fitch Bank Credit Model to Bankscope. This is a statistical model that produces a financial implied rating and daily implied CDS spread for over 11,000 banks across the globe. This model helps you evaluate banks that aren’t traditionally assessed by rating agencies and validate and benchmark your own credit opinions. 

 

Language：  English

Trial Period： Until Dec 31, 2014

Access:   https://bankscope2.bvdep.com/ip (On campus)

 

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Hybrid E-commerce Platform: When an Online Retailer Offers Own Delivery Service

Yubo Chen

The imbalanced development of logistics and payment makes it difficult for an online retailer to reduce the uncertainty of online shopping in emerging markets. In response, some online retailers establish a hybrid e-commerce platform in the hope to reduce online shopping uncertainty, and thus to establish customers’ trust in the platform and increase their purchases. Based on two natural experiments arising from JD.com’s initiative of establishing its own delivery service, we examine how the setup of a hybrid e-commerce platform influenced customers’ shopping behaviors between 2009 and 2013. We find that the founding of a hybrid e-commerce platform led customers to increase purchases by 7 to 10 percent at city level. In addition, we find that the sales boosting effect is greater for (1) cities with less mature shipping service, (2) light-buyers, (3) categories with higher uncertainty, and (4) products with fewer discounts. The results are consistent with the interpretation that the establishment of a hybrid e-commerce platform improves shoppers’ trust in the online retailer. Thus, a hybrid platform does more than to speed up the delivery, but more importantly, it helps to build customer trust in the business.