CKGSB-SAIF 2014 Summer Institute of Finance Conference

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) are co-organizing the fifth annual Summer Institute of Finance Conference on July 17-18, 2014. The conference will be held in Pullman Hotel, Lijiang of Yunnan province which is located in the southwestern part of China.

This annual conference serves as a forum for academic scholars and research practitioners to shed light on the hottest topics in finance—from the premarket of IPOs and the Chinese stock market to the decentralization of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

The conference will begin with a reception on Wednesday evening, July 16; it will end late afternoon on Friday, July 18, 2014.

Event details (for more information, please click here)

Organizers: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) 

Date: July 17, 2014 – July 18, 2014

Location: Pullman Hotel Lijiang Resort and Spa (Shuhe Old Town Entrance Road │Lijiang│Yunnan Province │674100 LIJIANG │ CHINA)

Attendance: By invitation only

Key speakers:

• Michael Brennan (UCLA)
• Henry Cao (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
• Bing Han (University of Toronto)
• Grace Xing Hu (The University of Hong Kong)
• Li Minwen (Tsinghua University)
• Wang Pengfei (HKUST)
• Xing Yuhang (Rice University)
• Harold Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas)

Selected topics:

• “Bubble-Creating Stock Market Attacks and Exploitation of Retail Investors’ Behavioral Biases: Widespread Evidence in the Chinese Stock Market”
• “Local Information and the Decentralization of State-Owned Enterprises in China: Hayek is Right”
• “Market Power and Capital Flexibility: A New Perspective on the Pricing of Technology Shocks”
• “Debt Covenant Violations and Trade Credit”
• “The Interbank Market Run and Creditor Runs”
• “Corporate Finance and Risky Inalienable Human Capital”