Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:00 - 08:30 | Registration & Coffee (Conference Hall) | |
08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Ballroom) | |
09:00 - 10:00 | TBA (Ballroom) - Keynote Speech 1 - Professor Kose John | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break (Ballroom) | |
10:30 - 12:00 | A1: AI, Big Data, and Machine Learning Applications in Finance (Ballroom) - Li Steven, RMIT University, Australia | (+) |
10:30 - 11:00 | › Smart Matches: A Neural Network Approach to CEO-Firm Fit and Success - Anh Doan, University of Missouri-Columbia | |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Producing AI Innovation and Its Value Implications - Ambrus Kecskes, Schulich School of Business at York University | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Predicting Stock Market Movement Directions Using SVM: Evidence from Australia - Li Steven, RMIT University, Australia | |
10:30 - 12:00 | A2: Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, and Innovation (Apricot Room) - Liu Cathy, Georgia State University, United States | (+) |
10:30 - 11:00 | › Does Innovation Always Create Value? Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment - Peter Huang, University of Waikato | |
11:00 - 11:30 | › The (Uneven) Spatial Distribution of Entrepreneurial Support Organizations in the Regional Ecosystem - Cathy Liu, Georgia State University | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › A Qualitative Study of Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum in Public Universities in Southeast Asia - Nur Sa'adah Muhamad, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia | |
10:30 - 12:00 | A3: Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (Orchid Room) - Simioni Michel, MOISA, France | (+) |
10:30 - 11:00 | › Corporate Governance Beyond Shareholders: Employee Interests and Shareholder-Employee Risk-Shifting in Pension Plans - Yanase Noriyoshi, Keio University, Japan | |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Does ESG Mitigate Uncertainty? Examining the Impact of EPU on M&A Performance - Ashita Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Too few or too many? Nonlinear effects of women on corporate boards on firm environmental performance - Michel Simioni, MOISA | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break (Conference Hall) | |
13:30 - 15:00 | B2: Financial Markets (Apricot Room) - Trinh Tran Tri, Neoma Business School, France | (+) |
13:30 - 14:00 | › The impact of enhanced capital regulation on G-SIBs' default risk - Sarath Delpachitra, Imc Krems University | |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Forecasting Success: How Family Social Status Shapes Analyst Performance in Financial Markets - Tran Tri Trinh, Neoma Business School | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Effects of Price Limits: Evidence from Dual-Listed Companies in China - Xinyan Feng, Macau University of Science and Technology | |
13:30 - 15:00 | B1: Information Disclosures and Strategic Decisions (Ballroom) - Zhang Yong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China | |
14:30 - 15:00 | B3: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Orchid Room) - Sasidharan Subash, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India | (+) |
13:30 - 14:00 | › Banking Against the Odds: Performance and Lending Efficiency of Government Banks during Crisis. - JOEL CHRISTOPHER, Indian Institute of Management [Bangalore] | |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Handling Business Rules in Database Design by Using Integrity Constraints: A Multi Case Study Approach to Investigate Database Design - Tan Thanh Nguyen, Banking Academy of Vietnam | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Innovation efforts of Indian family firms: Role of an effective governance mechanism - Subash Sasidharan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break (Conference Hall) | |
15:30 - 17:00 | C2: Corporate Finance and Governance (Apricot Room) - Nguyen Yen Ngoc, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada | (+) |
15:30 - 16:00 | › The Dark Side of Industry Tournament Incentives: Evidence from Workplace Misconduct - Anna Luong, The University of Sydney | |
16:00 - 16:30 | › Does Labor Market Flow Help or Hurt Firm Innovation? Evidence from OECD Countries - Yen Ngoc Nguyen, St. Francis Xavier University (CANADA) | |
15:30 - 17:00 | C1: ESG and Sustainable Finance (Ballroom) - Duanmu Jun, Seattle University, United States | (+) |
15:30 - 16:00 | › ESG Ratings and Female Executive Structure – Evidence from China - Jun Duanmu, Seattle University | |
16:00 - 16:30 | › The Impact of ESG Risk on Financial Performance for Banks in Taiwan - Thao Nguyen Phuong, Chung Yuan Christian University | |
16:30 - 17:00 | › The geographic peer effects and corporate green innovation - Wenxi Shen, University of Birmingham [Birmingham] | |
15:30 - 17:00 | C3: Machine Learning Applications in Finance (Orchid Room) - Shukla Ravi, Syracuse University, United States | (+) |
15:30 - 16:00 | › Decision Making and Early-Stage Investment in the Age of AI: A Systematic Literature Review - Silvia Cortesia, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | |
16:00 - 16:30 | › From Traditional Statistical Model to Modern Deep Learning: A Multi-Horizon Study of Stock Market Prediction in Vietnam - Minh-Chau Pham, AI Lab - AI VIETNAM | |
16:30 - 17:00 | › Dual Investment Horizon in Portfolio Choice with Uncertain Forecast Sets - Ravi Shukla, Syracuse University | |
18:00 - 21:00 | Gala Dinner (Dong Son Drum Restaurant) |
Friday, July 11, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:00 - 08:30 | Registration & Coffee (Conference Hall) | |
08:30 - 09:30 | TBA (Ballroom) - Keynote Speech 2 - Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Coffee break (Conference Hall) | |
10:00 - 11:30 | D1: Household Finance (Ballroom) - Chou Shu-Ching, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan | (+) |
10:00 - 10:30 | › The Impact of Tax Reform on Corporate Real Estate Investment - Shu-Ching Chou, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology | |
10:30 - 11:00 | › Determinants of Retirement Savings Decisions: Evidence from a 401(k) Plan - MinhTam Schlosky, University of Illinois Springfield | |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Present Bias, Fast Cash Loans, and Financial Literacy in the United States - Solomon Wang, St Mary's University | |
10:00 - 11:30 | D2: Sustainability and Risk Management (Apricot Room) - Woon Leong Lin, Taylor's University, Malaysia | (+) |
10:00 - 10:30 | › U-shaped climate-credit risk dependency at the loan portfolio level: implications from the genetic algorithm for the correlated Bernoulli trials simulation - Henry Penikas, Research and Forecasting Department, Bank of Russia | |
10:30 - 11:00 | › The Green Fallacy: Investigating the Relationship between Greenwashing and Firm Risk - Bhagya Bhutani, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | |
11:00 - 11:30 | › The Impact of Eco-Product and Eco-Process Innovation on Sustainability Risk Management in the Malaysian Furniture Industry: The Moderating Role of Market Turbulence - Lin Woon Leong, Taylor's University | |
10:00 - 11:30 | D3: Entrepreneurship and Alternative Finance (Orchid Room) - Toth Russell, University of Sydney, Australia | (+) |
10:00 - 10:30 | › Payment Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Racial Disparities: Evidence from Money Service Business - Hieu Tran, University of Massachusetts, Boston | |
10:30 - 11:00 | › Incentivizing Customer Referrals for Bank Loans to Female Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam - Russell Toth, University of Sydney | |
11:30 - 12:30 | Special Session (Ballroom) - TBD | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (Conference Hall) | |
14:00 - 15:30 | F1: Boards, ESG, and Firm Performance (Ballroom) - Gopalaswamy Arun Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Does Female Presence on Corporate Boards matter for Firm`s Cost of Equity? Evidence from Indian Firms - Praveen Bhagawan, IFMR GSB, Krea University, Sri City, India | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Earnings Management as an outcome of failure to reduce post-acquisition agency cost - Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy, Professor, Indian institute of technology Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › The Impact of ESG Risk on Stock Returns, and risks: An Empirical Analysis of the Energy Sector - Minh Dinh, University of Inland Norway | |
14:00 - 15:30 | F2: ESG and Sustainable Finance (Apricot Room) - Al-Yahyaee Khamis, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Muscat University, Oman | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Spillovers between green bonds, oil, and stock markets in the U.S and the European stock markets - Khamis Al-Yahyaee, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat University | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › The Economic and Financial Implications of Land and Water Pollution: Evidence from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake - Jun Myung Song, Hitotsubashi University | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Barriers to the expansion of community off-grid solar systems: Evidence from rural India - Keyur Thaker, Indian Institute of Management Indore | |
14:00 - 15:30 | F3: Entrepreneurship and Financial Innovation (Orchid Room) - Hanif Muhammad Shehzad, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS, HYBRID ENTREPRENEURS, AND NON-ENTREPRENEURS - Muhammad Shehzad Hanif, University of Central Punjab | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Impact of Mobile Banking on Liquidity and Credit Risk - Priya Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Madras |