2023 SFI Annual Report
Faculty
The pool of teachers at the School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) is expanding, with 25 new professors on board, increasing the total number of faculty members to 126. Among them, 19 specialize in operations management and information system, 22 in accounting, 14 in management, 27 in economics, 28 in finance, and 16 in marketing.
Total number of faculty members
The number of newly recruited teachers
Accounting: Deng Tian, Kim Hojoon, Li Mei, Tang Shibin, Yoon Joonsang, Zhi Weijia
Economics: Cao Yue, Dai Liang, Fang Yue, Hui Xitong, Yuan Huaiping, Zhang Wanchang
Finance: Chen Jingxuan, Li Yazhu, Ma Houning, Wang Wei, Xiao Han
Management: Baik Sooyun, Jiang Han, Pan Xinyue
Marketing: Han Ruobing, Huang Der-Wei
Information System & Operations Management: Guo Yutong, Liu Yidi, Zhang Hongzhe
They graduated from the world’s top universities, all with doctoral degrees from prestigious overseas universities. Among them, 70% graduated from schools in North America, 10%, Europe, and 20%, Asia.
They come from all corners of the world, including 105 from China (Hong Kong 14, Taiwan 2), United States 5, Brazil 1, South Korea 8, Netherlands 2, Canada 2, Malaysia 1, Thailand 1, Italy 1.
Academic Achievement
In 2023, SME witnessed 58 newly accepted papers, of which 24 papers were accepted by FT50 journals and 19 by UTD24 journals.
UTD24 (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)
Cao Jiyin
Lay Theories of Instrumental Relations: Explaining Individual Differences in Dispositional Similarity-Attraction
Academy of Management Journal
Dai Liang
Disclosure of Bank-Specific Information and the Stability of Financial Systems
Review of Financial Studies
Di Chenchen
Return Window Decision in A Distribution Channel
Production and Operations Management
Huang Der-Wei
Consumer Trust: Meta-analysis of 50 Years of Empirical Research
Journal of Consumer Research
Jiang Han
Social Embeddedness and Supply Chains: Doing Business with Friends vs. Making Friends in Business
Production and Operations Management
Jiang Yangzi
Geographic Virtual Pooling of Hospital Resources: Data-Driven Trade-off Between Waiting and Traveling
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Liu Yidi
Smart Natural Disaster Relief: Assisting Victims via AI in Lending
Information Systems Research
Consequences of China’s 2018 Online Lending Regulation and the Promise of PolicyTech
Information Systems Research
Ming Liu
The Sales Impacts of Traffic Acquisition Promotion in Live-Streaming Commerce
Production and Operations Management
Ren Qitian
Advertising and Content Creation on Digital Content Platforms
Marketing Science
Shi Duo
Quick Response Under Strategic Manufacturer
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Wang Jingqi
Patient Sensitivity to Emergency Department Waiting Time Announcements
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Cross-licensing in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Manufacturers
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Zhang Chenglong
When Sharing Economy Meets Traditional Business: Coopetition Between Ride-Sharing Platforms and Car-Rental Firms
Information Systems Research
Zhang Hongzhe
Proactive Resource Request for Disaster Response: A Deep Learning-Based Optimization Model
Information Systems Research
Zhao Jianliang
Deterring the Gray Market: Product Diversion Detection via Learning Disentangled Representations of Multivariate Time Series
Journal on Computing
Zhang Qiang
Final Price Neglect in Multi-Product Promotions: How Non-Integrated Price Reductions Promote Higher-Priced Products
Journal of Consumer Research
Zhang Tianyu
Calling for Transparency: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Zhang Yiming
Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Major Ride-Sharing Platform
Management Science
FT50 (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)
Jiang Han
A Recombinant Framework of Technological Information Disclosure and Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance of Technology Projects
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? Female Representation on Decision-Making Group of Venture Capital Firms and Funding of Woman-Led Businesses
Journal of Business Venturing
Wang Cong
Directors: Older and Wiser, or Too Old to Govern?
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Xiao Fenglong
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism
Research Policy
Zhang Rongrong
Beyond the Feeling Individual: Insights from Sociology on Emotions and Embeddedness
Journal of Management Studies
Other International Top Journal (*Alphabetical order by author's last name)
Huang Kanyuan
Sharing names and information: Incidental similarities between CEOs and analysts can lead to favoritism in information disclosure
PNAS
Jia Jianmin
Emergency communications after earthquake reveal social network backbone of important ties
PNAS Nexus
Wu Tao
Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data
PNAS
SME received five grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2023. Jia Jianmin was acknowledged by NSFC Key Program; Chen Qihui was acknowledged by NSFC General Program; three professors, namely Lin Wei, Lin Wenlian and Zhang lingyi received grants from NSFC’s Youth Science Fund.
SME won 1 grant from Guangdong Province in 2023. Lin Wei was acknowledged by NSFC General Program of Guangdong Province.
Honors and Qualifications
SME professors crowned many awards in 2023
Xiong Wei
Fellowship of the World Econometric Society
Selected as one of the "2023 List of the World's Leading Scientists"
Ai Chunrong
Selected as one of the "2022 Chinese Highly Cited Scholars Annual List"
Zhao Jianliang
Selected as one of the "2023 List of the World's Leading Scientists"
Liu Bin
Awarded "2023 China Society for Information Economics Innovation Achievement Award".
2022 Program Performance Evaluation by the Department of Management Science, NSFC - "Award of Exceptional Merit"
Hung Iris
“Creative thinking facilitates perspective taking” was awarded "The 22nd Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Science in Zhejiang Province"
Li Dan
“Does High Frequency Market Manipulation Harm Market Quality?” was awarded "Outstanding Paper Award at the 18th Asia Pacific International Conference on Financial Markets"
Liu Hongqi
“Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field” was awarded " Behavioral Finance Best Paper Award at the 2023 China Financial Research Conference"
Wang Xiaoqiao
“Do Consumers Bear the Cost of Environmental Regulation? Evidence from NOx Budget Trading Program” was awarded "Industrial Securities Excellent Paper Award at 7th China Finance and Accounting Conference"
Zhang Rongrong
Won the Best Reviewer Award by Management and Organization Review
Zou Wenli
“Digital Resilience to COVID-19: Evidence From The Medical Aesthetics Industry” was awarded "The 7th International Summit on Marketing Science and Innovation (MSI) 2023 Outstanding Paper Award"
Ren Qitian
Awarded the Title of “Outstanding Teacher in Shenzhen 2023”
Wang Jingqi
Awarded the “Youth Scientific Research Award 2022”
Lee Sung Kwan
Awarded the “CUHK-Shenzhen Award for Ethics in Teaching 2023”
Academic Events
Organized 37 Academic Events & High Profile Forums
The 8th Global Wealth & Asset Management and Quantitative Investment Forum
China Data Talent Development and Application Forum
The Sixth China Marketing Summit
CUHK-Shenzhen Forum of Asian Accounting Scholars 2023
International Biodiversity Finance Conference
The Greater Bay Area Chief Economist Forum 2023
The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Conference
The Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurs Forum 2023
The 5th PHBS-CUHKSZ Economics and Finance Workshop
The NBER Conference on the Chinese Economy
The 14th Journal of Financial Research Forum
SME held a total of 161 seminars
2023 Seminar & Brownbag |
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Accounting |
Economics |
Finance |
Information System |
Management |
Marketing |
Operations Management |
Total |
28 |
38 |
30 |
18 |
17 |
19 |
11 |
161 |
The institutions of speakers span four continents, with over 50% from North America
North America 86, Asia 68, Europe 6, Oceania 1
In addition, SME and SFI held 6 sessions of Distinguished Lecture Series themed on global economic hotspots and invited influential industrial leaders, experts from decision-making departments and other well-known scholars to share their in-depth opinions. The event had 1.73 million online viewers and received overwhelming social response.
Think-tank Construction
4 Horizontal Commissioned Topics
On Hong Kong-Shenzhen Cross-border Factor Flows and Cross-border Financial Cooperation
(Commissioned by: Political Research Office of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, Hong Kong Chief Executive's Policy Group)
High-quality Development of the Financial Sector in the Greater Bay Area
(Commissioned by: Propaganda Department of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Guangdong Southern Finance and Economics Holding Co., Ltd.)
The Impact of Institutional Innovation and Macro Policies on Industrial Development in the Greater Bay Area
(Commissioned by: Essence Securities)
Pengshan District Subject Cooperation Project
(Commissioned by: United Front Work Department of Shenzhen Pingshan District Party Committee)
21 Policy Research Reports
The Mission of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation - Globalization of Layout
Building a Global Science and Technology Innovation Highland, a Shenzhen-Hong Kong Territorial Innovation System Should Be Constructed
Cracking the Ethical Governance Priorities of Fintech with System Construction and Implementation of Main Responsibilities" "Promoting the Deep Integration of the Greater Bay Area with the Mechanism of "Cross-border Dual Headquarter""
Innovation of Hong Kong's Offshore RMB Products Based on Stable Coin, Blockchain and Smart Contracts" "Hong Kong Should Transform from a Traditional Trade Center to an International Trade Center for Innovation and Technology"
Complementarity and Matching of Market Mechanisms and Macro Policies in Real Estate Markets Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Generative Al Era
The Healthy Competition between Macroeconomic Policies of China and the United States
Giving Full Play to Hong Kong's Role in Assisting the Development of Outer Circular Economy Economic Situation and Policy Recommendations in the Face of Risk Shocks
Activating the Potential of "Dua
l Headquarters" in Shenzhen and Hong Kong through "Enterprise Link, Park Link and Service Link" "Four Policy Focus Points to Rapidly Change Market Expectations"
Consolidating and Enhancing Hong Kong's Status as a Trade Center
Interpretation of the Development Plan of Shenzhen Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone cum Seminar on Innovation of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cross-border "Dual Headquarters"
Mechanism: Experts' Views and Policy Recommendations
Research Report on High-Quality Economic Development of Pengshan District, Shenzhen: Stimulating the Potential of Cooperation between Pengshan and Hong Kong with the Innovative Mechanism of Cross-border "Dual Headquarter".
Dual Headquarters Connecting the Double Cycle
Key Factors for Further Progress of RMB Internationalization
Synthesis of Important Points from Guest Speeches at the 2023 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurs' Forum Report on Global Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence
The Transformation and Strategic Value of Hong Kong's International Trade Center
2 Case Studies
Silicon Valley Bank Bankruptcy Fiasco
The Fall of Credit Suisse - UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse
10 Books / Research Report Published
China’s Governance in Change: 2011-2021 – Xiao Geng, Andrew Sheng
The Unintelligible China: Theory and Practice in a Changing Landscape – Xiao Geng, Andrew Sheng
ESG Ratings for China’s Urban Development – Zhang Bohui, Wu Haifeng
China Securities Industry ESG Golden Bull Award Ranking – Zhang Bohui, Wu Haifeng
Report of Mutual Funds in China 2023 – Cao Quanwei, Chen Zhuo, Shu Tao
Report of Hedge Funds in China 2023 – Cao Quanwei, Chen Zhuo, Shu Tao
China Internship Recruitment Research Report 2023 – Zhang Bohui, Wei Li, Wang Hang, Bao Qian, Shen Peiyi
Carbon Rating Report of China’s 100 Overseas Listed Companies – Zhang Bohui, Wu Haifeng
China Data Job Recruitment Research Report 2023 – Zhang Bohui, Wei Li, Wang Hang, Bao Qian, Shen Peiyi
Research Report on ESG Investment Development in Capital Management Industry 2023 – Zhang Bohui
VoxChina: 28 Academic Papers Introductions / 24 Academic Short Videos
The total number of clicks and plays on all platforms exceeded 1,600,000 times
7 Issues of Economic Situation Analysis and Policy Outlook of the U.S
Talent Cultivation
A total of 845 new postgraduate students were enrolled in 2023;
Full-time postgraduate students: 525 (MSc in Economics 73; MSc in Accounting 109; MSc in Finance 98; MSc in Marketing 77, MSc in Data Science 66, MSc in Information Management and Business Analytics 102)
Part-time postgraduate students: 320 (MSc in Finance 75; MSc in Business Management 117; Finance EMBA 128)
Discipline Development
Postgraduate
The MSc in Data Science Continues to Top QS Master’s in Business Analytics Ranking in China (Business Analytics)
97 master's and doctoral programmes were evaluated by an external evaluator, EE, and the report showed that all of them met the standards of the same programmes of the top international universities.
Student Achievement
Two students of MSc in Data Science programme published ten papers in international conferences/journals
Chenliang Li / Master's Candidate
Co-authored paper: Understanding Expertise through Demonstrations: A MaximumLikelihood Framework for Offline Inverse
Conference on Neural lnfor-mation Processing System (NeurlPS), the top international conference in the field of machine learning and computational neuroscience.
Co-authored paper: A Bayesian Approach to Robust Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Conference on Robot Learning, an international conference in the field of robotics and machine learning.
Zhiyou Zhao / Master's Degree Candidate
Co-authored paper: LCP Former: Towards Effective 3D Point Cloud Analysis viaLocal Context Propagation in Transformers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sys-tems for Video Technology, IEEE's top academic journal in the field of video technology.
Co-authored paper: NerVE: Neural Volumetric Edges for Parametric Curve Ex-traction from Point Cloud
CVPR2023, the top conference in computer vision and pattern recognition under IEEE.
Honors
He Xiaofeng│Master of Science in Management Programme
Awarded "Shenzhen May 1st Labor Medal 2023".
Jiang Shuaiyu│Master of Science in Finance Programme
Gold Medal for Oral Presentation in the Liberal Arts Category of the First Graduate Research Forum of the Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Jiang Shuangyuan│Master of Science in Finance Programme
Women's Singles Champion and Mixed Doubles Champion of the 7th Freshmen Cup Table Tennis Competition of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Guangsheng Liu | Master of Science in Economics Programme
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 2022-23 "Outstanding Student Leader Award"
Liu Hang | Master of Science in Economics Programme
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen "President's Award for Outstanding Master's Degree"
2023
Tang Long | Master of Science in Marketing Programme
Awarded "Best Debater of the Whole Competition" in the 11th Shenzhen Universities and Colleges Young Students Debate Invitational Competition
Wang Hanlin│Master of Science in Finance Programme
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen "President's Award for Outstanding Master's Degree" in 2023
Meng-Yuan Wang | Master of Science in Management Programme
Winner of the "Top Prize - Winner Award" of the 2nd National Disruptive Technology Innovation Competition
Yanan Wang | Master of Science in Information Management and Business Analytics Programme
Awarded "Outstanding Team Award" in the Bay Area (Shenzhen) Fintech Summer Camp
Yukun Wu and Xingye Qi | Master of Science in Accounting Programme
Winner of the Third Prize of the "Nine Harness Cup" University FICC Simulation Training Competition 2023
Xiong Yuyin | Master of Science in Management Programme
Awarded "Shenzhen May 1st Labor Medal 2023"
Yu Miao and Shi Kaifu | Master of Science in Marketing Programme
Third Runner-up of the 7th Freshman Cup Volleyball Competition of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in September 2023
Zeng Jingran | Master of Science in Economics Programme
Awarded Fifth Place in Men's Doubles of the 26th China University Tennis Championships (Finals)
Further Education and Employment
2022 graduates from SFI feature:1. Overall employment rate is 98.2%, ranking first among well-known domestic universities.2. 92.4% of the graduates were employed with an average annual salary of RMB287,000, maximum of up to RMB663,000 in a broader range of destinations for more diversified posts in extensive fields. The graduates had more diverse choices of cities. Nearly 60% chose to work in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 26.4%, in Beijing and Shanghai, and 15%, in new first-tier cities.3. 5% of the graduates chose to continue their education, of which 13 would study Ph.D. programmes in well-known universities at home and abroad. Since December 2022, graduates of CUHK-Shenzhen can apply for Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates (IANG) visa to work in Hong Kong. Seven graduates chose to work in Hong Kong.
The power of SFI alumni continues to grow
Total number of alumni reached 2,042 (including 545 alumni in the Class of 2023)SFI-CDC Organized and supported 10 alumni networking events and related outreach efforts in 2023 (including collaboration with the MSc in Finance programme, SME-CDC, and SME Alumni Affairs) ; participated in alumni events with approximately 700 attendees.