Dr Rowan Alcock is currently an RGC Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in The Department of Applied Social Sciences. He gained his DPhil from Oxford University in the Department of Politics and International Relations in which he studied Karl Polanyi and the countermovement concept with reference to China.

Dr. Huaijun Zhou is Chancellor’s Leadership Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. His research integrates genetics, functional genomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics to understand how genetic variation and gene regulation shape complex traits in farm animals, with a particular emphasis on poultry.

Nirbhay N. Yadav, PhD is an Associate Professor of Radiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Yadav’s laboratory focusses on developing saturation-transfer MRI methods for the non-invasive imaging of metabolites and the application of these methods in animal models and human patients with cancer, metabolic disorders, and neurodegeneration.

Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is University Distinguished Professor, Galvin Chair Professor, and Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Tech. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), NAI (National Academy of Inventors), CSEE (Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering) and the Aspen Academy. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Weiting Miao is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the HKU Business School, University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University and previously conducted postdoctoral research at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Her primary research areas include international trade and industrial organization, with a current focus on dynamic issues such as firm innovation and production network formation.

Ziyang Shen is a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. He works in applied microeconomic theory, with a focus on game theory, mechanism design, and market design.

Professor Sally Shuttleworth is a Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty and St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford.She was previously Head of the Humanities Division at the University, overseeing all aspects of research and teaching for the nine Humanities Faculties.Prior to her time at Oxford, she taught at Princeton, Sheffield and Leeds, and held fellowships at Harvard and Cornell Universities.

Professor Sally Shuttleworth is a Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty and St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford. She was previously Head of the Humanities Division at the University, overseeing all aspects of research and teaching for the nine Humanities Faculties.Prior to her time at Oxford, she taught at Princeton, Sheffield and Leeds, and held fellowships at Harvard and Cornell Universities.

Dr. Vladislav Yakovlev is a Chair Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Previously, he served as a Professor at Texas A&M University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Moscow State University in 1990. His research focuses on laser physics, quantum optics, and biomedical photonics.

Professor Liang's areas of expertise include financial accounting, analyst forecasts, corporate governance, real estate and market anomalies. Her work has been published in the Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research and other leading industry journals. She is a member of the American Accounting Association. Professor Liang previously taught at George Washington University, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgetown University.

Charles Burnett (MA and PhD Cambridge), Emeritus Professor, Warburg Institute, London, has specialised in the transmission of Arabic science and philosophy to Western Europe, and its subsequent presence in European and world-wide culture. He has documented this by editing and translating several Arabic-Latin texts and original Latin texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and by describing their historical and cultural contexts.

Yucheng Quan is a PhD candidate in economics at HKU Business School, the University of Hong Kong, and was a visiting scholar at Duke University. He applies text-as-data and IO methods to study questions in environmental economics and political economy. Current projects focus on information frictions in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) industry, green certification schemes, and environmental regulation. His work appears in the Journal of Population Economics.

Phyllis Hanson is the Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, where she has served as department chair since 2018. She earned a BA in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and PhD degrees from Stanford, where she studied how autophosphorylation and Ca2+ regulate CaMKII. During postdoctoral work at Yale, she helped establish the parallel architecture of the SNARE complex and the role of NSF-driven disassembly in membrane fusion.

Monther Abu-Remaileh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Genetics and an Institute Scholar of ChEM-H at Stanford University. He grew up in Palestine and earned his B.Sc. in Genetics from the Jordan University of Science and Technology before completing his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2014. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Whitehead Institute at MIT before starting his lab at Stanford in 2019.

Alfonso Martinez Arias is currently ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago (1983) and after a postdoc at the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) became affiliated with the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and, from 2001, as professor of Developmental Mechanic. In 2021 he moved to Barcelona.

Raphaël Rodriguez is a Research Director at the CNRS and a Principal Investigator at Institut Curie where he holds the Sklodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology. He acquired the knowledge of chemistry and biology from several mentors in the United Kingdom. He leads the Biomedicine Laboratory at Institut Curie and investigates the molecular basis of cancer metastasis.

Peng Xiong received B.Sc. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1987 and Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1993. He then spent the next four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Diego. He joined the Physics faculty of Florida State University in 1997. He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an APS fellow, and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.

Exploiting the introduction of China’s 2018 Northbound Investor Identification System (NIIS) as an exogenous shock to insider trading incentives, we examine the impact of managerial insider trading incentives on firms’ disclosure quality. We find that when managers have lower incentives to engage in insider trading, they provide higher-quality disclosures, evidenced by more precise and accurate management earnings forecasts.

his paper proposes discrete-time approximations to rough continuous-time models of realized variance (RV). The leading rough models can be viewed as autoregressive processes driven by fractional Gaussian noise. We show that the Wold representation of this noise concentrates its dependence at the first lag when the Hurst parameter is below one half.

Prof. Buhui Qiu is Professor of Business and Finance and Head of School of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School. His research examines how technological change, labor-market conditions, information and disclosure, financial networks, and climate-related risks shape corporate behaviour and capital market outcomes. His recent research has a particular focus on corporate innovation and firms' responses to technological and labor-market change.