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SUMMARY:Capital Market Development: China and Asia Seminar Series — Data vs. Collateral
DESCRIPTION:COLLABORATING ORGANIZERS\n \n  \nThe use of massive amounts of data by large technology firms (big techs) to assess firms’ creditworthiness could reduce the need for collateral in solving asymmetric information problems in credit markets. Using a unique dataset of more than two million Chinese firms that received credit from both an important big tech firm (Ant Group) and traditional commercial banks\, a new paper by Yiping Huang and co-authors investigates how different forms of credit correlate with local economic activity\, house prices and firm characteristics. In this upcoming seminar\, Huang will discuss their findings\, including that big tech credit does not correlate with local business conditions and house prices when controlling for demand factors\, but reacts strongly to changes in firm characteristics\, such as transaction volumes and network scores used to calculate firm credit ratings. By contrast\, both secured and unsecured bank credit react significantly to local house prices\, which incorporate useful information on the environment in which clients operate and on their creditworthiness. This evidence implies that a greater use of big tech credit – granted on the basis of machine learning and big data – could reduce the importance of collateral in credit markets and potentially weaken the financial accelerator mechanism. \nAbout the Seminar Series\nFinancial market development goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The development of China’s capital markets in terms of size\, regulations\, capability\, and efficiency has been impressive. China may now even lead globally in some dimensions\, notably e-payments systems. Yet\, China’s capital markets are still a work-in-progress facing both generic and unique challenges. Other Asian capital markets have even greater uneven development. Some in advanced Asian economies have acquired globally acclaimed reputation and capabilities while various regulatory and structural weaknesses dwarf others. Corporations and investors have been inclined to arbitrage cross-border regulatory and developmental gaps; so the very uneven status of capital markets across Asia is a policy issue for the governments in the entire region and perhaps globally. Analyzing the positive and negative lessons in the functioning of Asia’s capital markets\, and identifying reforms and applications of technology that could further improve Asian capital markets’ allocation efficiency\, financial inclusion\, and forewarning against reforms that might cause problems can benefit practitioners\, policymakers and researchers\, and can contribute significantly to overall prosperity. \nThe ABFER and the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China)\, in collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School\, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics\, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF)\, hope to provide a virtual network to benefit researchers\, policymakers\, and practitioners from Asia and beyond. \n\n\nAll times are listed in Central Standard Time. A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event.  \n\nSession Format\nEach session lasts for an hour (30 minutes for the author\, 15 minutes for the discussion\, 15 minutes for participants’ Q&A).
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/capital-market-development-china-and-asia-seminar-series-data-vs-collateral/
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SUMMARY:China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics — Fear\, Lockdown\, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline
DESCRIPTION:The Tsinghua University – University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance\, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China)\, the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University\, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on public policy issues relating to China. Focusing on a wide range of topics in public economics\, the seminar will be a premier forum for frontier economic research and dialogue on Chinese economic issues. \nThis seminar featured Austan Goolsbee\, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. \n\nAll times listed below are Central Standard Time.
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/china-biweekly-seminar-on-public-economics-fear-lockdown-and-diversion-comparing-drivers-of-pandemic-economic-decline/
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