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Mission
The Center's mission is to promote high quality research and education on corporate governance issues in Asia and China. Drawing from the fields of accounting, economics, and finance, the Center's research aims to address how Asia's various institutional environments shape the governance and economic behaviors of corporations and their agents.
Activities
To achieve the stated mission, the Center will (1) sponsor activities that help to build the needed infrastructures for high quality research, (2) provide a platform for scholarly exchanges of research results, and (3) intermediate knowledge transfer between researchers and business communities.
Scope of research
The Center encourages research addressing corporate governance issues in China and Asia, and cross-country studies with strong research and policy implications for the region. In particular, the Center has a strong interest in research that analyze the effects of country institutional factors on corporate governance, and the roles of corporate governance in accounting, finance, and organization. Topics of the research include, but not limited to, the following:
Featured Events
Research Training Program for Mainland Business Schools 2009
Corporate Governance, Accounting and Corporate Finance
June 11-18, 2009
Shanghai, China
Accounting and Finance Research Workshop
December 8-9, 2008
Hong Kong, China
CIG Research Highlights
CIG working paper featured in
The Economist
CIG working paper profiled
"Challenges for Implementation of Fair Value Accounting in Emerging Markets: Evidence from IFRS Adoption in China"
by Professor T.J. Wong (Director of CIG, CUHK) and Professor Danqing Young (CUHK), and Dr Xianjie He (SUFE) was featured in
The Economist
on May 30, 2009 ("Red Flags",
The Economist
, May 30, 2009, pp. 73-74 or
www.Economist.com
, May 28, 2009).
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