Tags : Financial Frauds and Regulation

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Kamikazes in Public Procurements: Bid-Rigging and Real Non-Market Outcomes
Bid-rigging in public procurements has severe implications beyond fiscal costs, directly affecting the quality of essential public services. In "kamikaze" strategy, the lowest bidder withdraws after the auction concludes, allowing the second-lowest bidder to win at higher prices. This leads to significant ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/kamikazes-in-public-procurements-bid-rigging-and-real-non-market-outcomes
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
This paper uses the enactment of China’s 2007 Property Law (the Law), which reduces the risk of expropriation by local governments, as the setting to investigate the importance of property rights protection for private firm investment. Using propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences design, we ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2022/expropriation-risk-and-investment-a-natural-experiment-by-allen-huang
Why did the Peer-to-peer Lending Market Fail in China?
From 2007 to 2020, China's Peer-to-peer lending market experienced a drastic boom and bust and ended up with zero surviving platforms. The key reason for the collapse of China's P2P sector was that almost all P2P platforms deviate from the role of information intermediary and became shadow banks offering ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/huang-why-did-the-peer-to-peer-lending-market-fail-in-china-tlb61
Why did the Peer-to-peer Lending Market Fail in China?
Watch video Or watch on our Youtube channel. Synopsis The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market was once a role model for Fintech development in China. The market reached its peak in 2017 with more than 5,000 platforms and a trading volume of CNY 2.8 trillion. However, after several waves of fraud and platform ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2021/huang-peer-to-peer-lending-market-fail-china
Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behaviour: Case of AT1 Bonds
Mis-selling by financial service providers poses a grave threat to consumer protection. This can adversely affect the financial well-being of consumers. Mandating information disclosures in order to bridge the information asymmetry between financial service providers and consumers is one concrete way to curb mis-sale ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2021/impact-of-information-disclosure-on-consumer-behaviour-case-of-at1-bonds-by-misha-sharma-dvara-monika-halan-iica
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