The FinTech Workshop is a series of academic seminars organized by the National School of Development (NSD, formerly known as the China Center for Economic Research, CCER) and the Institute of Digital Finance (IDF) at Peking University. We invite leading scholars from top universities, research institutes, central banks, and international organizations as our speakers to present their recent work on FinTech, banking, and the digital economy.
The FinTech workshop takes place every Tuesday in a hybrid format (Zoom + on-site in Beijing). If you are interested in participating in our upcoming seminars, please check the website of the National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University or the Wechat account “未名湖数字金融研究” of the IDF at Peking University. You can also join our email list by sending an email to our executive assistant Ying Jiang (yjiang@nsd.pku.edu.cn).
Time: 2-3:30 pm on Tuesdays (Beijing time)
Coordinator: Jiayin Hu
Venue: Zoom and/or on-site in Chengze Garden 246, CCER, NSD & IDF, Peking University
Meeting ID: 897 2560 1400
Passcode: 938759
5-Mar-25 Sudheer Chava (Georgia Tech) - "Credit Limit Rigidities"
18-Mar-25 Christine A. Parlour (Berkeley Haas) - "Liquid Staking"
25-Mar-25 Sergey Sakisyan (OSU Fisher) - "Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission"
2-April-25 Meijun Qian (ZIBS) - "TBD"
7-April-25 René M. Stulz (OSU Fisher) - "TBD"
15-April-25 Song Ma (Yale SOM) - "TBD"
22-April-25 Yiming Ma (Columbia Business School) - "TBD"
29-April-25 Neng Wang (CKGSB) - "TBD" (tentative)
8-May-25 Manju Puri (Duke Fuqua) - "TBD" (tentative)
13-May-25 Karsten Müller (NUS Business School) - "TBD"
20-May-25 Xiumin Martin (WUSTL Olin) - "TBD"
27-May-25 Sean Higgins (Northwestern Kellogg) - "TBD"
3-June-25 Sumit Agarwal (NUS Business School) - "TBD"
10-June-25 Haoxiang Zhu (MIT Sloan) - "TBD"
Time: 2-3:30 pm on Tuesdays (Beijing time)
Coordinator: Jiayin Hu
Venue: Zoom and/or offline in Chengze Garden 131, CCER, NSD & IDF, Peking University
Meeting ID: 897 2560 1400
Passcode: 938759
10-Sep-24 Tania Babina (Columbia Business School) - "Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk"
17-Sep-24 Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday
27-Sep-24 Xavier Vives (IESE Business School) - "Fintech Entry, Lending Market Competition, and Welfare"
1/8-Oct-24 National Day Holiday
15-Oct-24 Kai Li (PKU HSBC Business School) - "Finance Leases and Capital Allocation Efficiency in China"
22-Oct-24 Baozhong Yang (GSU Business School) - "Harnessing Generative AI for Economic Insights"
29-Oct-24 Yang You (HKU Business School) - "Market Power and Loyalty Redeemable Token Design"
19-Nov-24 Hongjun Yan (DePaul University) - "A Four-Trillion-Dollar Question: Why Trade ETFs Instead of Their Underlying Stocks?"
3-Dec-24 Anjan Thakor (WUSTL Olin Business School) - "The Color of Finance: Can Bank Capital Requirements Influence Transition to a Green Economy?"
10-Dec-24 Shumiao Ouyang (Oxford Saïd Business School) - "How Ethical Should AI Be? How AI Alignment Shapes the Risk Preferences of LLMs"
18-Dec-24 Fiorella De Fiore (BIS) - "Big Tech Credit and the Macroeconomy"
Time: 2-3:30pm on Tuesdays (Beijing time)
Coordinator: Jiayin Hu
Venue: Zoom and/or offline in Chengze Garden 131, CCER, NSD & IDF, Peking University
Meeting ID: 897 2560 1400
Passcode: 938759
27-Feb-24 Lawrence J. Jin (Cornell Johnson) - "Reflexivity in Credit Markets"
6-Mar-24 Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia Business School) - "Capital Market Distortions and Reform Dividends: Evidence from IPO
Locational Choices"
12-Mar-24 Vincent Yao (Georgia State University) - "Will That Be Cash or Credit?"
18-Mar-24 Elena Simintzi (UNC Kenan-Flagler) - "Machines Could Not Compete with Chinese Labor: Evidence from U.S. Firms' Innovation"
26-Mar-24 Robert Marquez (UC Davis) - "Bank Fragility and the Incentives to Manage Risk"
Qingming Festival Holiday
16-Apr-24 Cameron LaPoint (Yale SOM) - "Picking Up the PACE: Loans for Residential Climate-Proofing"
Labor's Day Holiday & PKU 126th Anniversary Celebration
7-May-24 Alexi Savov (NYU Stern) - "Banking on Uninsured Deposits"
14-May-24 Pulak Ghosh (IIMB) - "Does Open Payment Infrastructure Expand Credit Access: Evidence from India's UPI"
21-May-24 Adrien Auclert (Stanford Econ) - "When do Endogenous Portfolios Matter for HANK?"
22-May-24 Benoit Mojon (BIS) - "Housing wealth effect in China"
28-May-24 Joshua Blumenstock (UC Berkeley) - "Training Machine Learning to Anticipate Manipulation"
4-June-24 Wenlan Luo (Tsinghua SEM) - "Resisting Working Capital Constraint: Evidence from 80 Million Individual Business Owners"
5-June-24 Yiming Qian (UConn School of Business) - "From Competitors to Partners: Banks’ Venture Investments in Fintech"
7-June-24 Yao Zeng (UPenn Wharton) - "The Making of an Alert Depositor: How Payment and Interest Drive Deposit Dynamics"
11-June-24 Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern Kellogg) - "Information Frictions and Take-up of Government Credit Programs"
15-June-24 Huan Tang (UPenn Wharton) - "What do We Know about Consumer Surveillance and Its Consequences?" (based on The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps and Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud)
Time: 2-3:30 pm on Tuesdays (Beijing time)
Coordinator: Jiayin Hu
Venue: Zoom and/or offline in Chengze Garden 131, NSD & IDF, Peking University
Meeting ID: 868 7941 4705
Passcode: 2023
7-Sep-23 Ye Li (UWashington Foster) - "The Network Structure of Money Multiplier"
19-Sep-23 Hao Zhou (Tsinghua PBCSF; SUSTech) - "Derivative-Market Leverage and Risk Premia Implications"
Mid-Autumn Festival & National Day Holidays
10-Oct-23 Jose Scheinkman (Columbia University) - "Carbon prices and forest preservation over space and time in the Brazilian Amazon"
13-Oct-23 Wenlan Qian (NUS Business School) - "Scared Away: Credit Demand Response to Expected Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market"
18-Oct-23 Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) - "Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market"
24-Oct-23 Tobias Berg (Goethe University Frankfurt) - "Payment Firms, Cryptocurrencies, and CBDCs"
3-Nov-23 Lin William Cong (Cornell Johnson) - "Building AI Models for Finance: Goal-Oriented Search"
7-Nov-23 Jun Qian (Fudan FISF) - "Centralization or Decentralization? Evolution of State Ownership in China"
21-Nov-23 Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland) - "Haste or Waste? The Role of Presale in Residential Housing"
29-Nov-23 Xiaoyan Zhang (Tsinghua PBCSF) - "How Can Robot Investment Assistant Help: Collecting Information or Providing Advice? Evidence from China"
5-Dec-23 Andreas Fuster (Swiss Finance Institute) - "Inflation Relief Checks"
19-Dec-23 Hanming Fang (Upenn) - "Platform, Data Neutrality, and Market Competition"
21-Dec-23 Kaiji Chen (Emory) - "The Spillover Effects of Real Estate via Production Network"
26-Dec-23 Tong Liu (MIT Sloan) - "Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital"
Time: Tuesdays (Beijing time)
Coordinator: Jiayin Hu
21-Feb-23 Sean Higgins (Northwestern Kellogg) - "Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities"
28-Feb-23 Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School) - "A Model of the Data Economy"
8-Mar-23 Liyan Yang (Utoronto Rotman) - "The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility: When Firms Set Personalized Prices for Network Goods"
14-Mar-23 Greg Buchak (Stanford GSB) - "Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking"
21-Mar-23 Leonardo Gambacorta (BIS) - "Big techs, QR code payments and financial inclusion"
28-Mar-23 Jun Pan (SAIF) - "FinTech Adoption and Household Risk-Taking: From Digital Payments to Platform Investments"
5-Apr-23 Yi Huang (Fudan FISF) - "The Salience of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Online Business"
11-Apr-23 Will Lin Cong (Cornell Johnson) - "The Data Economy: Growth, Innovation, Regulation, and Trade"
18-Apr-23 Bohui Zhang (CUHK-Shenzhen) - "A Good Sketch is Better than A Long Speech: Evaluate Delinquency Risk through Real-Time Video Analysis"
25-Apr-23 Tianyue Ruan (NUS Business School) - "Reducing Racial Disparities in Consumer Credit: Evidence from Anonymous Loan Applications"
Labor’s Day and PKU's 125th Anniversary Celebration
18-May-23 Alex Xi He (Maryland Smith) - "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Firms and Workers" (based on Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Product Innovation and Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition)
22-May-23 Kairong Xiao (Columbia Business School) - "Will Central Bank Digital Currency Disintermediate Banks?"
30-May-23 Alberto Rossi (Georgetown McDonough) - "Algorithm Aversion: Theory and Evidence from Robo-Advice"
6-June-23 Jon Frost (BIS Americas Office) - "Tackling the Risks in Crypto"
3-July-23 Wei Xiong (Princeton) - "State versus Market: Information Discovery in a Hybrid Economy"
8-July-23 Zhiguo He (Chicago Booth) - "Homemade Foreign Trading"