| 12 August 2025 | 12:00-20:00 | Conference Registration | Registration Venue: Xueren Building, Academic   Exchange Center, Shandong University | 
  
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 | 17:30-20:30 | Dinner | - | 
  
   | 13 August 2025 | 9:00-9:10 | Opening Ceremony: Speech by Organizer | Shi Shaobin, Professor, Executive Vice Dean, School   of Economics, Shandong University | 
  
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 | 9:10-9:15 | Group Photo | - | 
  
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 | 9:10-9:40 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Zhang Xueyong, Professor, School of Finance, Central   University of Finance and Economics; Chair: - | 
  
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 | 9:40-10:10 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Yang Liyan, Professor, Rotman School of Management,   University of Toronto | 
  
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 | 10:10-10:20 | Tea Break | - | 
  
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 | 10:20-10:50 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Song Zhaogang, Professor, Carey Business School,   Johns Hopkins University | 
  
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 | 10:50-11:20 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Zhu Xiaoneng, Professor, School of Finance, Shanghai   University of Finance and Economics | 
  
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 | 11:20-11:50 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Huang Dashan, Professor, Singapore Management   University; Zhang Qunzi, Professor, School of Economics, Shandong University;   Wei Lei, Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (Sorted by Pinyin initials   of surnames) | 
  
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 | 11:50-12:20 | Keynote Speech (Session 1) | Wei Lei, Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong | 
  
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 | 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | - | 
  
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 | 14:00-14:20 | Paper Presentation (Session 2: Young Scholars' Paper   Exchange): Crowding-out Effect of Public Information Disclosure: How Rating   Disclosure Affects Capital Market Information Efficiency | Li Xinyu, Associate Researcher, School of Economics,   Shandong University; Chair: Fang Tong, Associate Professor, School of   Economics, Shandong University | 
  
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 | 14:20-14:40 | Paper Presentation (Session 2): When Investors   Become Issuers: The Impact of Corporate Venture Capital on IPO Underpricing | Zhang Renbin, Associate Professor, School of   Economics, Shandong University | 
  
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 | 14:40-15:00 | Paper Presentation (Session 2): Nominal Rigidities,   Rational Inattention, and the Optimal Monetary Policy | - | 
  
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 | 15:00-15:10 | Tea Break | - | 
  
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 | 15:10-15:30 | Paper Presentation (Session 2): Rule of Law Driven   Innovation - Empirical Evidence Based on Multi-source Heterogeneous Data | Li Jianwen, Associate Researcher, School of   Economics, Shandong University; Chair: Chang Dongfeng, Professor, School of   Economics, Shandong University | 
  
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 | 15:30-15:50 | Paper Presentation (Session 2): Narrative Ambiguity   Matters | Wei Xinbei, Lecturer, School of Finance, Capital   University of Economics and Business | 
  
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 | 15:50-16:10 | Paper Presentation (Session 2): Internet-driven Fund   Inflows and Stock Price Crash Risk | Wang Xiaoxiao, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of   Economics, Shandong University (Sorted by Pinyin initials of surnames) | 
  
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 | 17:30-19:00 | Dinner | - |