Recent research studies in financial markets and macroeconomy, and applications to the Chinese economy, workshop 1

Time: Friday, Feb 25, 2022

09:30 - 10:00: Welcome

10:00 - 11:00: Ruixue Jia (UCSD and LSE), "Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China"

11:00 - 11:30: coffee break

11:30 - 12:30: Huan Tang (LSE), "The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps"

12:30 - 14:00: break and lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Lin Peng (CUNY and Cambridge), “Social Ties, Co-movements, and Predictable Returns”

15:00 - 15:30: coffee break

15:30 - 16:30: Wei Xiong (Princeton and Cambridge), "Unpacking Dark Matter in Finance: Time-Varying Disaster Risk and Asset Prices"

16:30 - 17:00: Closing and further discussion