Parallel Session 1 (2-3PM, WLB204)
Audit Committee
Chair: Prof. Raymond Chan (H.K.)

Paper 2: Corporate Governance and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings: The Role of the Audit Committee Yin-Hua Yeh (Taiwan) & Tracie Woidtke (USA)
Paper 4: 審計委員會的內生性半獨立缺失解析----- 兼論改進監事會制衡機制 王立彥 &薄仙慧 (中國)

Parallel Session 2 (2-3pm, WLB209)
Company Law & CG Code
Chair: Dr. Horace Ho (H.K.)

Paper 21: Governance of Family Businesses in Germany: An Analysis of Their Compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code Axel v. Werder & Till Talaulicar (Germany)
Paper 19: Eccentricities for Joint Stock Companies under the Chinese Company Law: A Literature Review Alex Lau (Hong Kong) & Angus Young (Australia)

Parallel session 3 (3-4pm, WLB 204)
Performance of China Family Business
Chair: Prof. Frank Song (H.K.)

Paper 14: The Financial and Operating Performance of Chinese Family-Owned Listed Firms Yuan Ding, Hua Zhang (China) & Junxi Zhang (Hong Kong)
Paper 15: Research on Evaluation and Index of Private Listed Enterprise Governance Ya Li (China)

Parallel session 4 (3-4pm, WLB 209)
Share Market Issues
Chair: Prof. Gordon Tang (H.K.)

Paper 17: The Determinants of Open-Market Share Repurchase: To Signal or to Control? Jun Huh & Kwangwoo Park (Korea)
Paper 7: Corporate Governance, Public Governance and the Synchronicity of Individual Stock Price Movements: Evidence from China’s Listed Companies Julan Du (Hong Kong), He Hao (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited) & Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Day 2 (24 August 2007)

Parallel session 5 (9-10:30am, WLB204)
Equity Offering & Fund Management
Chair: Prof. Joseph Fung (H.K.)

Paper 23: Do Family Firms Leave Money on the Table During Initial Public Offerings in Hong Kong? Chee Keong Low & Xin Yu (Hong Kong)
Paper 16: What Determines the Discount for Private Equity Offerings – Ownership or Control Rights? Tai Ma, Huei-Yun Hsu, Ching-Yi Yeh & Kai-Wei Chang (Taiwan)
Paper 5: Redeemability as Governance: A Study of Closed-end and Open-end Funds under Common Management Peter MacKay & Daniel WU Xiongwei (Hong Kong)

Parallel session 6 (9-10:30am, WLB209)
Board, Directors & CEO Issues
Chair: To be confirmed

Paper 9: 在美中國上市公司董事會與公司績效關係的實證研究 周建 &華心怡 (中國)
Paper 22: Board of Directors and Opportunistic Earnings Management: Evidence from India Jayati Sarkar, Subrata Sarkar & Kaustav Sen (India)
Paper 24: A study on CEO compensations of family businesses vs. non-family businesses in Hong Kong Annie Ko & Simon S.M. Ho (Hong Kong)

Parallel session 7 (2-3pm, WLB204)
Tunneling Behavior
Chair: Prof. Yin-Hua Yeh (Taiwan)

Paper 1: Related Party Transactions: Increasing Operating Efficiency or Tunneling? Evidence from Israel Yaron Amzaleg, Uri Ben-Zion & Ahron Rosenfeld (Israel)
Paper 3: Diversification and Tunneling: Evidence from Indian Business Groups Jayati Sarkar (India) & Raja Kali (USA)

Parallel session 8 (2-3pm, WLB209)
CG Practice & Impacts
Chair: To be confirmed

Paper 8: The Construction of Four-In-One Governance Model of Family Enterprises Based on Control Right – A Study on the Practice of Family Enterprises in Mainland China Chunhe Wang & Jian Cheng (China)
Paper 18: Shaping up for Performance Impacts of Information Technology:
The Role of Corporate Governance Joanna L.Y. Ho (USA), Anne Wu (Taiwan) & Sean Xin Xu (Hong Kong)

Parallel session 9 (3-4pm, WLB204)
Ownership Structure
Chair: Prof. Davy Wu (H.K.)

Paper 10: Ultimate Owners, Financial Constraints, and the Influence over Dividend Policy: Evidence from Thailand J. Thomas Connelly (Thailand)
Paper 11: 機構投資者持股與公司治理——基於再融資行為的實證研究 姚頤&劉志遠 (中國)

Parallel session 10 (3-4pm, WLB209)
Internal Capital Market and Corporate Takeover
Chair: Prof. Yuan Ding (China)

Paper 20: Disappearing Internal Capital Markets: Evidence from Diversified Business Groups in Korea Sangwoo Lee (Hong Kong), Kwangwoo Park (Korea) & Hyun-Han Shin (Korea)
Paper 12: Corporate Takeovers: Do Family Ownership, Transaction and Target Firms Characteristics Matter? Saw-Imm Song, Ruhani Ali & Subramaniam Pillay (Malaysia)