QCFC 2025
Program
December 6, 2025 (Saturday)
Venue: OJW Room, Level 12, S Block, QUT Garden point campus
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9.00 a.m. – Opening Remarks
Ruchith Dissanayake (Conference Chair)
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Session Chair: Marco Elia, Queensland University of Technology
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9.10 a.m. – 9.50 a.m. “Household Portfolio and Deposit Insurance: Implications for the Supply of Safe Assets”
Pulak Ghosh - Indian Institute of Management
Nicola Limodio - Bocconi University
Nishant Vats – Washington University
9.55 a.m. – 10.35 a.m. “Heterogeneous Firm Expectations and Misallocation”
Erwan Gautier - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
Paul Hubert - Banque de France
Alais Martin-Baillon – New York University, Abu Dhabi
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10.40 a.m. – 11.10 a.m. – Tea/Coffee break
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​Keynote Address
11.15 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. “Corporate Governance for the Social Good”
Randall Morck, University of Alberta
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12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. – Conference Lunch
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Session Chair: Amy Zhang, Queensland University of Technology
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2.00 p.m. – 2.40 p.m. “Global Air Connectivity and Syndicated Loan Structuring”
Jing Li, University of Hong Kong
Yan Li, University of Hong Kong
Zigan Wang, Tsinghua University
Qie Ellie Yin, Sun Yat-sen University
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2.45 p.m. – 3.25 p.m. “Promotion-Driven Inequality”
Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics and Political Science
Elena Pikulina, University of British Columbia
Radoslawa Nikolowa, Queen Mary University of London
3.30 p.m. – 3.50 p.m. – Tea/Coffee Break
3.50 p.m. – 4.10 p.m. – New Ideas: Greg Kubitz
4.10 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. – New Ideas: Ruchith Dissanayake​
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Session I
Session II
Conference Dinner
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6.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. Conference Dinner
Donna Chang
3/171 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000
December 7, 2025 (Sunday)
Session III
​​​​Session Chair: Hoa Tran, Monash University
9.30 a.m. – 10.10 a.m. “The Investment-Sales Sensitivity: the Link Between Tangible and Intangible Capital”
Chu Zhang - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Keynote Address
10.15 a.m. – 10.55 a.m. “The Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Financial Analysts Journal, and the Professional Status of Investment Management”
Stephen Brown – New York University
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10.50 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. – Tea/Coffee break
11.20 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. “Can Machines Learn from Corporate Insiders?”
Tongyang Kong: City University of Hong Kong
Chishen Wei: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lei Zhang – City University in Hong Kong
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12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m. – Conference Lunch ​​​​​
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1.00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Ruchith Dissanayake (Conference Chair)
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Program Committee​
Ruchith Dissanayake (Conference Chair)
Sean Wu (Conference Co-chair)
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