The HKUST-NYU Stern MS in Global Finance (MSGF) Program organized a series of sample classes and finance seminars to share intellectual topics with finance professionals across Asia in the past months. Prof. Vidhan GOYAL delivered a sample class in Singapore in April to discuss the challenges of valuing a young, rapidly growing technology company. Two months later in Shanghai, Prof. Abhiroop MUKHERJEE discussed how Behavioral Finance differs from traditional finance. More rec

In the wake of a financial dip, these Japanese professionals are updating their industry knowledge in China. Japan’s financial sector is experiencing something of a slump. Despite the country’s prominence in other industries—from robotics to light industry—things are slowing down in this important region. Since the 1990s, Japan’s GDP per capita has been on a slow downward trajectory, while fintech innovations such as cashless payment go largely unimplemented. Nearby, though,

Data: July 26, 2019 (Fri) TIme: 6:30 - 8:30pm Venue: FINE TOKYO, 5th Floor, South Tower, Otemachi Financial City1-9-7 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 1000004 Japan (https://www.fine-tokyo.com/en/access/) Standard models of financial markets assume people behave rationally. Behavioral finance builds on this foundation by taking insights from cognitive psychology (e.g., overconfidence) to explain puzzling observations in asset prices that cannot be explained by reason. In this ta