Lecturer: ProfessorPankaj Maskara ----Nova Southeastern University

Moderator: Professor Chen Huangeng ---- School of Business Administration

Time: OCT. 10th, 2020. 10:00-11:30 (UTC+8)

Live Broadcast Via Tencent Meeting ID: 422 659 284

(International Platform: VOOV Meeting ID:422 659 284)

Host: School of Business Administration, SWUFE Scientific Research Department

About the Lecturer:

Pankaj Maskara, Ph.D. in Finance, is a professor of Business School, Nova Southeast University. He is a continuous entrepreneur, a famous Angel Investor, and the core expert ofHolmstrom'sdigital finance project team, which isthe Nobel Laureate.Pankaj Maskarais not only a highly productive academic expert who has published professional papers in many internationally high-level journals, includingJournal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking & Financeand other international top journals. His papers have been recommended by numbers of authoritative scholars such as Ross Richard Roll and Stephen Ross; but also an excellent educator. His lectures on "Entrepreneurship" and "Real World Finance" have always been the most popular courses in Business Schools. His classes have been attracting students from all over the world, and some students even take flightsfrom other countries.in order to have his lectures.

Additionally, Professor Maskara works as senior consultant in some international enterprises. He has traveled extensively, acquired five languages, visited more than 40 countries in the world, and has a broad international vision. In 2019, Professor Maskara innitiated a new research based on "Random Field Experiment". So far, researchers from Harvard, MIT, Oxford and other reputable universities have become the members in the research team.

About the Lecture:

Field experiments have recently gained more prominence among academicians in Economics. Insights gleaned from field experiments play an important complementary role to inferences drawn from analysis of secondary data for policy formulation purposes. The seminar will emphasize the importance of field experiments in social science. It will discuss the essential components of a field experiment and highlight the differences between lab experiments and field studies. Also, it will explore the different fields of study in economics that are best suited to field experiments. Particularly, China’s unique socioeconomic background provides us a great platform to do field experiment research. The seminar will also highlight the entrepreneurship studies we are working on in China using field experiments.