Alan Kwan

The University of Hong Kong

Assistant Professor

Pokfulam Road

Hong Kong, Pokfulam HK

China

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RegTech

MIT Sloan Research Paper 6563-22, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 154, No. 103792, 2024
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2024
Ben Charoenwong, Zachary T Kowaleski, Alan Kwan and Andrew Sutherland
INSEAD, University of Texas at Austin, The University of Hong Kong and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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RegTech, FinTech, technology adoption, financial regulation, compliance, internal controls, complementary investments, software bundling

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Institutional Investor Attention

Number of pages: 106 Posted: 15 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023
Alan Kwan, Yukun Liu and Ben Matthies
The University of Hong Kong, University of Rochester - Simon Business School and University of Notre Dame
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Investor Attention, Portfolio Allocation

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The Paradox of Innovation Non-Disclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2022
Gaurav Kankanhalli, Alan Kwan and Kenneth J. Merkley
University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
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Innovation, Disclosure, Redaction, Licensing, Patents, R&D

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Does Regulatory Jurisdiction Affect the Quality of Investment-Adviser Regulation?

Charoenwong, Ben, Alan Kwan, and Tarik Umar. "Does regulatory jurisdiction affect the quality of investment-Adviser regulation?." American Economic Review 109, no. 10 (2019): 3681-3712.
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2024
Ben Charoenwong, Alan Kwan and Tarik Umar
INSEAD, The University of Hong Kong and Rice University
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Financial Advisers, Consumer Finance, Financial Misconduct, Fraud, Financial Regulation

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Bargaining Power in the Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from Licensing Contract Terms

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Gaurav Kankanhalli and Alan Kwan
University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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IP Licensing, Bargaining Power, Patent Litigation, Disclosure, Royalty Rates

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Stress Testing Banks' Digital Capabilities: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 18 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2023
Alan Kwan, Chen Lin, Vesa Pursiainen and Mingzhu Tai
The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of St. Gallen and The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business and Economics
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information technology, banks, branches, COVID-19, SME loans

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Crowd-judging on Two-sided Platforms: An Analysis of In-group Bias

Management Science, Accepted
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2023
Alan Kwan, S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang
The University of Hong Kong, London Business School and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Crowd-sourcing, crowd-judging, platform governance, platform operations, two-sided marketplace, bias, experience, learning

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Does Context Matter? Evidence from Internet Research Activity by Sophisticated Investors

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2020
Alan Kwan and Christina Zhu
The University of Hong Kong and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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earnings announcements, adverse selection, sophisticated investors, media, liquidity, information acquisition, technology

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Capital Budgeting, Uncertainty, and Misallocation

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE)
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 10 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2024
Ben Charoenwong, Yosuke Kimura, Alan Kwan and Eugene Tan
INSEAD, Tokyo Institute of Technology - School of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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Corporate Investment, Expectations Formation, Intangible Capital, Information, Learning

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Managerial Learning from Decoding Noisy Stock Prices: New(s) Evidence from Billions of Internet Article Reads

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 23 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2024
Alan Kwan, Tse-Chun Lin and Po-Yu Liu
The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and National Taiwan University - Department of Finance
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big data, managerial learning, market feedback effects, financial news, R&D.

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Labor Market Power and Firm Financial Flexibility

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2023
Alan Kwan and Yukun Liu
The University of Hong Kong and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Labor Market Power, Firm Financial Flexibility and Corporate Policy, Vacancy Postings

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Public Forecasts, Internal Projections, and Corporate Financial Policy

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 01 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2022
Ben Charoenwong, Yosuke Kimura and Alan Kwan
INSEAD, Tokyo Institute of Technology - School of Engineering and The University of Hong Kong
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Managerial Guidance, Strategic Disclosure, Market Efficiency, Corporate Governance

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Social Connections with COVID-19-Affected Areas Increase Compliance with Mobility Restrictions

Science Advances. Vol 6, Issue 47. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc3054
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2024
Ben Charoenwong, Alan Kwan and Vesa Pursiainen
INSEAD, The University of Hong Kong and University of St. Gallen
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social networks, mobility restrictions, COVID-19

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Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper No. 2024/008
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2024
Alan Kwan, Ben Matthies, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
The University of Hong Kong, University of Notre Dame, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
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Work-from-Home, Entrepreneurship, New Firm Entry, Labor Market, Experimentation, Labor Allocation

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Measuring the Impact of Remote Work on Firm Performance

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper No. 2025/005
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 27 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2025
Alan Kwan, Ben Matthies and Alexander Yuskavage
The University of Hong Kong, University of Notre Dame and Government of the United States of America - Department of the Treasury
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Following the Information Footprint of Firms

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2024
Edward Lee, Alan Kwan, Rudolf Hanel, Anjali Bhatt and Frank Neffke
Complexity Science Hub Vienna, The University of Hong Kong, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Complexity Science Hub Vienna
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firms, collective knowledge, information, scaling, reading