- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Working Capital and Financial Performance
- Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
- Risk Management in Financial Firms
- Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
- Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
- Housing Market and Economics
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Control Systems and Identification
- Topic Modeling
University of Macau
2020-2024
City University of Macau
2015-2024
Hudson Institute
2023
University of Michigan
2020
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
2020
Flinders University
2009-2019
Curtin University
2011-2018
Autodesk (Canada)
2015-2017
Griffith University
2006-2011
AbstractThe creation of bitcoin heralded the arrival digital or crypto-currency and has been regarded as a phenomenon. Since its introduction, it experienced meteoric rise in price rapid growth accompanied by huge volatility swings, also attracted plenty controversies which even involved law enforcement agencies. Hence, claims abound that characterized bubbles ready to burst any time (e.g. recent collapse bitcoin's biggest exchange, Mt Gox). This earned coverage media but surprisingly not...
Abstract This study outlines and tests two corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) views of dividends. The first view argues that firms are likely to pay fewer dividends because activities lower the cost equity, encouraging invest or hoard cash rather than second suggests positive NPV projects increases earnings hence dividend payouts. (second) predicts with a stronger involvement in should be associated (higher) finding supports is robust.
Abstract This study investigates the relation between firm life cycle and trade credit. We find evidence that firms in introduction, growth, decline stages use significantly more credit, whereas mature stage less Firm works as a separate channel to affect credit independently from other channels proposed literature. These results are robust alternative regression specifications, measures of endogeneity concern. Firms introduction adjust target level quickly compared others.
Abstract Under the stakeholder theory hypothesis, reputable corporate social responsibility (CSR) banks are expected to attract more loans and deposits, which in turn strengthens their ability create liquidity. Our findings support this view. Further analyses reveal that positive effect of CSR on liquidity creation differs depending bank size, capital, type financial crisis. In addition, deposit growth, loan lending rate, funding rate potential channels through influences creation. The not...
This paper presents a method to automatically extract function knowledge from natural language text. The extraction uses syntactic rules acquire subject-verb-object (SVO) triplets parsed Then, the functional basis taxonomy, WordNet, and word2vec are utilized classify as artifact-function-energy flow knowledge. For evaluation, definitions associated with 30 most frequent artifacts compiled in human-constructed base, Oregon State University's design repository (DR), were compared identified by...