北大经院工作坊第1010场
The Bright Side of Climate Risk: The Case of R&D investment
国际经济学与实证产业组织工作坊
主讲人：王潇（中国科学技术大学教授）
主持老师：（北大经院）莫家伟
参与老师：
（北大经院）杨汝岱、田巍、刘政文、吴群锋
（北大新结构）王歆、徐铭梽
（北大国发院）薛思帆
时间：2024年12月10日（周二）10：00-11：30
地点：北京大学经济学院302会议室
主讲人简介：
Xiao Wang is a Professor in the School of Management and an Assistant Dean of International Institute of Finance at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her primary research interests cover topics of international finance, international trade, and corporate finance. She has contributed to numerous internationally renowned journals, including Journal of International Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. She received the Pushan Academic Award for Excellent Papers on International Economics in 2016. She obtained both BA and MA in Economics from Peking University, and Ph.D. in International Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before she joined USTC in 2018, she served as a tenured Associate Professor in the College of Business and Public Administration at University of North Dakota.
摘要：
We explore firms' investment decisions in research and development (R&D) under the context of climate uncertainty. Employing global firm quarterly data from 2001q1 through 2022q3 and firm-level climate risk data measured by machine learning techniques, we find that firms invest more in R&D in times of high climate risk. Compared to physical and regulatory climate risks, opportunity climate risk has a more significant impact on corporate R&D investment. Furthermore, the results are more pronounced for firms with growth opportunities, high competition intensity, and those updating climate beliefs. Collectively, our findings support the growth options theory, which suggests that firms adopt a preemptive strategy throughout high uncertainty.
北大经院工作坊第1011场
Breaking Down Bullying: Empathy, Social Networks, and Adolescents
经院-全健院
“健康与劳动经济学”工作坊
主讲人: Qinyou Hu（Visiting Scholar at the Aalto University School of Business）
主持人: （北大全健院）杨佳楠
参与老师：
（北大经院）秦雪征、施新政、石菊、姚奕、袁野、王耀璟、梁远宁、庄晨
（北大全健院）刘国恩、黄成、孙宇、吕蓓妮、崔知涵、潘聿航、林淑君、林昊翔、蒋少翔
时间：2024年12月11日（周三）10:00-11:30
地点: 北京大学经济学院107会议室
主讲人简介:
Qinyou Hu received her PhD in Economics from Rice University in 2024. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Aalto University School of Business and will join the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Business as an assistant professor in 2025. Her research interests lie in development economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on topics related to family, education, and health. Her current research agenda explores how social factors, such as peers, friends, and neighbors, influence youth cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. Her work involves both structural form and reduced form analysis. She has designed and conducted field experiments, leveraging observational and experimental data to address policy-relevant questions.
摘要:
This paper examines the formation of a specific non-cognitive skill – empathy – and its role in determining bullying behavior with a focus on social networks. The analysis centers on a parent-directed empathy-fostering intervention, which successfully increased empathy levels and reduced bullying among students. To disentangle the mechanisms underlying these findings, I develop and estimate a structural model of empathy development, network formation, and bullying decisions. The analysis reveals that 32% of the observed reduction in bullying is attributed to empathy-induced alterations in social networks. Policy counterfactuals show that social network information is valuable. Notably, targeting students based on popularity can lead to up to a 7.5% further reduction in bullying compared to targeting students randomly. Moreover, targeting bullies’ friends is more effective than targeting bullies directly. This insight holds promise for refining the efficacy of anti-bullying initiatives, which often focus more on bullies, and highlights the potential of reshaping social networks to mitigate violent behavior among adolescents.
北大经济史学名家系列讲座
第218讲
中国的市场经济传统与分工
主讲人：李嘉楠（厦门大学经济学院和王亚南经济研究院副教授）
时间：2024年12月11日（周三）10：10-12：00
地点：北京大学经济学院301会议室
主持人：周建波（北京大学经济学院经济史学系主任、教授）
评论人：兰日旭（中央财经大学经济学院教授）
主讲人简介：
李嘉楠，厦门大学经济学院和王亚南经济研究院副教授、博士生导师，厦门大学《资本论》数字纪念馆馆长，国家自然科学基金青年、面上项目主持人。研究领域为经济史、政治经济学和发展经济学等。先后在American Journal of Agricultural Economics、Journal of Comparative Economics、Regional Science and Urban Economics、《管理世界》《经济学（季刊）》《世界经济》《金融研究》《中国经济史研究》等国内外学术期刊发表论文20多篇。
主办单位：
北京大学经济学院经济史学系
北京大学社会经济史研究所
北京大学外国经济学说研究中心
北京大学金融工程实验室
“对话投资总监”系列讲座
2024年总第二十四讲：保险资管、量化及人工智能应用与市场前瞻
主讲人：王卫华（北京CFA协会副理事长）
主持老师：（北大经院）黎新平
时间：2024年12月11日（周三）18:40-21:30
地点：北京大学理科教学楼303教室
主要内容：
区别于公募基金及券商资管，保险资管有着更高的风险管理要求及大类资产配置视角。本次讲座将邀请保险资管行业资深专家王卫华校友讲述保险资管业务发展及投资框架，并讨论量化技术及人工智能技术在保险资管行业的应用和未来发展。
主讲人简介：
王卫华，北京CFA协会副理事长。过去11年曾先后任太保寿险投资总监、平安资管总经理助理、中国人寿资产管理公司高级董事总经理、投资总监，负责资产配置、固定收益、另类投资、量化投资、行业研究等管理工作；在之前18年，先后任招商银行深圳管理部新业务推广室副主任，全国社会保障基金理事会投资部委托投资处处长，固定收益处处长，投资部副巡视员等职。王卫华毕业于北京大学光华管理学院，获经济学博士学位。
供稿：科研与博士后办公室
美编：禾轩
责编：度量、雨禾、雨田
