Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance

Projects

Projects per year 2008 2020 2021 2023 2024 2027

• 1 Curtailed
• 12 Not started
• 36 Active
• 74 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Building a community of practice in research-informed teaching and learning

  CHAN, K. K. W. & GUERRA, A. D.

  1/06/24 → 31/07/25

  Project: Teaching project

  • Teaching 100%
  • learning 79%
  • expertise 48%
  • social science 46%
  • communication 34%

• How does social media drive the adjudication of food safety cases?

  QIN, B. & Chiang, C.

  1/01/24 → 30/06/26

  Project: Research project

  • food safety 100%
  • social media 80%
  • Court Cases 37%
  • China 20%
  • public opinion 19%

• 近代中国政府投资、产业集聚和早期工业化的实证研究

  LIU, C. & CHEN, T.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

• Banks’ Revolving Door Hiring of Former Regulators: Accounting Implications and Beyond

  ZHANG, J.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Hiring 100%
  • Timeliness 74%
  • Loans 43%
  • Bank Accounting 30%
  • Loan Loss Provisions 26%

• Does local media affect analyst forecast accuracy: Evidence from local newspaper closure

  LIU, Z., YAN, M. Y. & JIA, R.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Unemployment Risk 100%
  • Press Releases 98%
  • Unemployment Insurance 64%
  • newspaper 55%
  • Employees 32%

• Consumption Response to Frequent Stock Market Wealth Shocks

  ZOU, X.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Stock Market 100%
  • Fluctuations 51%
  • Stock Returns 39%
  • Household 38%
  • Wealth 36%

• Clan organizations, village elections, and grassroots governance in China

  CHEN, T.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • clan organization 100%
  • village 83%
  • election 82%
  • elite 39%
  • subsidy 37%

• Exports and Productivity Transmission through Domestic Supply Chain

  Qiu, L. D., ZHAN, C., Xu, D. Y. & Qing, L.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

• Impacts of Overseas Returnees on Growth and Innovation of Chinese Firms

  Zhang, Y., LIU, S. & Toth, R.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

• Limits of Altruism Revisited: the Role of Differentiated Public Goods

  CHUNG, K. S. & MAN, K. K.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Charity 100%
  • Altruism 88%
  • Free-riding 78%
  • Crowdfunding 58%
  • Donation 35%

• The Effect of Labor Unions on Firm Pricing Strategy

  YAN, M. Y.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Labor Unions 100%
  • Product Pricing 67%
  • Unionization 65%
  • Retail 61%
  • Endogeneity 46%

• Goodwill and Firm Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship

  WAN, M. & Zhao, L.

  15/12/23 → 30/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Goodwill 100%
  • Inverted-U 50%
  • Innovation 46%
  • Accounting Firms 14%
  • Assets 14%

• China's Economic System and Development Finance (Top-up Grant 2023)

  CHENG, Y. S. & WAN, M.

  2/10/23 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research project

  • economic system 100%
  • finance 94%
  • economic development 62%
  • stakeholder 56%
  • research project 33%

• China, Asia and Africa: Cooperation in Climate Adaptation

  CHENG, Y. S. & WONG, K. M.

  7/09/23 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research project

  • climate 100%
  • Hong Kong 88%
  • baptism 74%
  • stakeholder 74%
  • China 64%

• Multinationals and Markups

  WANG, Z. & Yeaple, S.

  1/05/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Markups 100%
  • Multinational Production 75%
  • Domestic Firms 49%
  • Multinational Firms 48%
  • General Equilibrium Model 46%

• BaiTest: A Platform for AI Evaluation in Smart Buildings

  Wang, D. & TAI, K. H. S.

  1/05/23 → 31/10/25

  Project: Research project

  • evaluation 100%
  • energy saving 55%
  • carbon emission 52%
  • methodology 30%
  • project 27%

• Quantitative History of China: Historical Roots of Recent Success and Future Development

  Chen , Z., CHEN, T., Bai, Y., MA, C., Campbell, C., Lin, C. & MA, D.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/27

  Project: Research project

  • China 100%
  • Hong Kong 80%
  • History 77%
  • Policy Making 27%
  • Academic Freedom 26%

• Measuring China’s Technological Changes in the 20th Century, One Book at a Time

  CHEN, T.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Technological Change 100%
  • Technology Shocks 58%
  • China 57%
  • Invention 45%
  • Total Factor Productivity 42%

• Online reviews: The more the better? The role of polarizing comments in the PC games market

  WAN, M. & Sam, A.

  1/01/23 → 30/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Market Share 100%
  • Online Reviews 98%
  • Rating 81%
  • Quality Assessment 66%
  • Market Games 57%

• Initial Coin Offerings as Seigniorage Stealing

  CHUNG, K. S.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Coins 100%
  • Regulatory Arbitrage 48%
  • Currency 23%
  • Seigniorage 21%
  • Medium of Exchange 21%

• Green Infrastructure Projects

  FU, K.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • infrastructure 100%
  • project 99%
  • financing 61%
  • finance 40%
  • green economy 13%

• China's Economic System and Development Finance (Top Up grant)

  CHENG, Y. S.

  11/10/22 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research project

  • finance 100%
  • economic system 94%
  • China 82%
  • stakeholder 29%
  • think tank 26%

• The Impact of Overseas Returnees on the Performance, Innovation, and Internationalization of Chinese Firms

  Zhang, Y., LIU, S. & Toth, R.

  1/07/22 → 1/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Chinese Firms 100%
  • Causality 90%
  • Networking 75%
  • Work Experience 67%
  • Innovation Performance 61%

• Local Corporate Taxes and the Geography of Foreign Multinationals

  WANG, Z. & Zi, Y.

  1/05/22 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Corporate Tax 100%
  • Multinationals 28%
  • Tax Competition 26%
  • Tax Reform 23%
  • China 22%

• Customer Horizontal Mergers and Firm Voluntary Disclosures

  Yu, J. J. & ZHAO, X.

  1/11/21 → 1/11/25

  Project: Research project

  • Horizontal Mergers 100%
  • Voluntary Disclosure 67%
  • Suppliers 49%
  • Investors 49%
  • Public Disclosure 33%

• China's Economic System and Development Finance

  CHENG, Y. S.

  1/10/21 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research project

  • finance 100%
  • economic system 94%
  • China 82%
  • stakeholder 29%
  • think tank 26%

• Public and private enforcement of non-GAAP reporting

  Dain , D., ZHAO, X., Antonis , K. & Colin , K.

  1/09/21 → 1/09/25

  Project: Research project

  • Enforcement 100%
  • Private Enforcement 70%
  • Public Enforcement 69%
  • Earnings Announcements 25%
  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 25%

• Grant for Teaching Development Initiatives (for Teaching Award Awardees)

  GUERRA, A. D.

  1/09/21 → 31/03/25

  Project: Teaching project

  • grant 100%
  • Teaching 51%
  • finance 34%
  • budget 32%
  • president 29%

• Salience of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Online Business

  LIU, S., Manso, G., Huang, Y. & Chen, L.

  1/07/21 → 1/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Entrepreneurs 100%
  • Upgrade 67%
  • Rational Learning 56%
  • Rating System 43%
  • Entrepreneurship 42%

• CEO Relative Age and Corporate Risk-Taking

  LIU, S., He, J., Guo, R. & Wang, Y.

  1/07/21 → 1/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Chief Executive Officer 100%
  • Risk Taking 56%
  • Corporate Risk 55%
  • Profitability 26%
  • Randomness 26%

• Deconstructing Democracy with Authoritarian Imprints: Evidence from Chinese Diaspora on Twitter

  LIU, S., Xia, S. & Zhang, D.

  1/07/21 → 1/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • right-wing populism 100%
  • opinion leader 87%
  • diaspora 67%
  • cultural revolution 45%
  • democracy 44%

• Cybermobbing on Social Media: The Role of Technology in Formation, Prevention, and Intervention of Online Collective Deviant Behavior

  CHEUNG, C. M. K.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Social Cognitive Theory 100%
  • Polynomial regression 84%
  • Deviant Behavior 82%
  • Anonymity 76%
  • Literature Review 70%

• Stay Connected, Stay Financed: Evidence from Global Network of Air Links and Syndicated Loans

  YIN, Q., Wang, Z. & Li, Y.

  1/01/21 → 1/01/25

  Project: Research project

  • Syndicated Loans 100%
  • Air 56%
  • Credit Markets 23%
  • Centrality 21%
  • Loan Spread 17%

• Is Democracy Good for Corporate Investment?

  YIN, Q., Wang, Z., Wang, Y. & Li, Y.

  1/01/21 → 1/01/25

  Project: Research project

  • Democracy 100%
  • Public Firm 67%
  • Firm Investment 65%
  • Overinvestment 46%
  • Private Firms 41%

• Information Overload and Confirmation Bias

  LEUNG, T. K., Goette, L. & Han, H.

  1/06/18 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research project

  • Confirmation Bias 100%
  • Information Overload 54%
  • Cognitive Load 32%
  • Information Processing 20%
  • Empirical Results 14%

• Distracted from Comparison: Product Design and Advertisement with Limited Attention

  LEUNG, T. K. & Johnen, J.

  1/06/18 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research project

  • Limited Attention 100%
  • Product Information 70%
  • Food Labels 61%
  • Consumer Surplus 45%
  • Pension Funds 22%
• Not started

  Liquidity Creation by Exchanged-Traded Funds

  DOAN, V. D.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/27

  Project: Research project

  • financial market 100%
  • cost 68%
  • project 34%
  • vehicle 25%
  • recommendation 24%

• Optimal monetary policy with subjective beliefs

  ZHOU, F.

  1/01/25 → 30/06/27

  Project: Research project

  • Expectation Formation 100%
  • Optimal Monetary Policy 95%
  • Inflation Expectations 90%
  • Monetary Policy 71%
  • Consumer Expectations 59%

• Throwing Sand into the Political System

  CHUNG, K. S. & MAN, K. K.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Government officials 100%
  • expert 45%
  • political system 43%
  • time 41%
  • Zeitgeist 34%

• Navigating Social Conflicts Along the Global Value Chain

  ZHAN, C., Qiu, L. D. & CHEN, T.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Social Conflict 100%
  • Suppliers 32%
  • Global Value Chains 31%
  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 16%
  • United States of America 14%

• Simple and Complex Information: Demand, Belief Updating and Decision-Making

  LEUNG, T. K.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Information Structure 100%
  • Decision Making 41%
  • Informativeness 34%
  • Trade-offs 26%
  • Information Design 18%

• Shareholder Preferences and Pollution Outsourcing

  LIU, S. & Lam, A.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Pollution 100%
  • Outsourcing 65%
  • Environmental Standards 40%
  • Shareholders 34%
  • United States of America 31%

• Populism and Multinational Corporation

  CHEN, T.

  1/01/25 → 31/12/27

  Project: Research project

  • multinational corporation 100%
  • populism 50%
  • firm 23%
  • globalization 16%
  • Hungary 14%

• Constructing daily Hong Kong Online Consumer Price Index and Price Dynamics: The Role of E-commerce in the Post-pandemic Era

  WAN, M.

  Project: Research project

• Global Banks, Global financial cycles and Exchange rate policies

  LUK, S. K.

  Project: Research project

• Research on Management Earnings Forecast and Corporates' Debt Contracting

  ZHANG, H.

  Project: Research project

• Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: An Empirical Assessment of Chinese Prefectures

  ZHANG, H.

  Project: Research project

• Why Do High Dispersion Stocks Earn Low Returns? Evidence from the Russell 1000/2000 Index Reconstitution

  YI, L.

  Project: Research project

  • Institutional Ownership 100%
  • Censoring 83%
  • Endogeneity 49%
  • Analysts 48%
  • Endogeneity Bias 38%
• Finished

  On the Role of Brokerage House Competition and Analyst’s Behavior in Forecasting

  WAN, M. & Lau, O.

  10/09/23 → 9/09/24

  Project: Research project

  • Brokerage 100%
  • Analysts 53%
  • Analyst Coverage 34%
  • Forecast Accuracy 28%
  • Forecast Performance 16%

• GCAP3166 Financial Planning: A Pre-emptive Measure to Various Social Issues

  GUERRA, A. D.

  1/09/23 → 30/06/24

  Project: Teaching project

  • financial planning 100%
  • social issue 57%
  • student 26%
  • community service 16%
  • empathy 14%