Fireside chat: China’s Real Estate and Financial Markets

Wei Xiong, one of the world’s leading research experts on capital market imperfections and Chinese economy, and SHoF Bo Becker discussed the driving forces behind the fluctuations in financial markets, China's real estate, market trends and financial stability.

 

Participants:

Wei Xiong, John H. Scully '66 Professor of Finance and Economics at Princeton University.

His research has been published a number of academic and business journals and received multiple awards. He has also written the book “The Handbook of China's Financial System”, an in-depth guide of the central aspects of China’s financial system, including banking, bonds, the stock market, asset management, the pension system, and financial technology. 

Bo Becker, Cevian Capital Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish House of Finance.

His research is on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets, credit cycles and corporate governance. Recent topics include how corporate debt contract features can improve investment efficiency, zombie lending to distressed borrowers in the Euro area, the design of delegated asset management in fixed income, and the optimal design of insolvency systems.