A record of conferences, workshops, and doctoral consortia attended by NUS Business School PhD students in 2026, drawn from across our departments.
16th POMS-HK International Conference
“Fighting Deforestation through Mechanism Design: A Dynamic Hierarchical Principal-Agent Approach”
Anton Reiling presented joint work with Prof. Jussi Keppo (NUS) and Prof. Dan Iancu (Stanford), gathering feedback on extensions and connecting with researchers across the region.
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“Price-Image Effects in Multi-Product Pricing Under Competition”
Wu Lan co-hosted a mini-conference at the OR Workshop, won the Best Student Poster Award, and presented a contributed talk modelling price-image effects as a convex optimization problem.
Read the full account17th Annual UNC Tax Doctoral Seminar
Wang Zifan completed an intensive week of frontier tax-research training led by scholars including Profs. Jennifer Blouin, Scott Dyreng, and Edward Maydew, alongside a practitioner panel from PwC.
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“The Effect of Self-Reporting Policy on Supplier Contracting”
Shi Rui presented solo-authored research on how the DOJ’s Corporate Enforcement Policy reshapes supply-chain relationships, gathering feedback on theoretical framing and empirical design.
Read the full account15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
“Global Plastic Waste Reallocation and Pollution: Evidence from China”
Gao Qiuxia presented research on the spillover effects of China’s plastic waste import ban on international waste trade and environmental outcomes in recipient countries.
Read the full accountIBDS × IPUR Conference on Health, Risk, and Decision-Making
Yuen Wei Lun deepened his understanding of consumer trust in medical AI, drawing on sessions examining autonomous-AI acceptance and mismatches between industry messaging and patient concerns.
Read the full accountChinese Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Conference
“Weathering the Storm: Urban Consumption Responses and Resilience to Tropical Cyclones in China”
Guo Ruihua shared a stacked difference-in-differences analysis of consumption resilience after tropical cyclones, gaining feedback on identification strategy.
Read the full accountMarketing Dynamics Conference, TPM26 & ISMS Marketing Science Conference
“Turns Into Leads: Lead-Aware Preference Optimization for LLM Customer Service Automation”
Guo Yuxin presented her paper, coauthored with Prof. Yuting Zhu and Prof. Keyan Li (Notre Dame), across three consecutive European marketing conferences.
Read the full accountConsortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation
“Nuisance Outliers or Novel Anomalies: An Inductive Study of Deviance and Grant Mills”
Arthur Hu presented findings on “grant brokers” in research funding ecosystems, drawing feedback from senior scholars including Prof. Sarah Kaplan and Prof. Mary Tripsas.
Read the full account2nd HKU Summer Accounting Conference and Doctoral Consortium
Song Chenyun attended sessions led by Prof. Luo Zuo and Prof. Xiumin Martin, and observed research on AI in auditing, disclosure, and investor interpretation across the main programme.
Read the full account2nd Mediterranean Accounting Conference (TMAC 2026)
“Tokenized Stocks”
Zhao Wenqi presented and served as a discussant, sharpening the positioning of her own research through exposure to financial reporting and governance sessions.
Read the full accountWorld Cities Summit 2026
“Bridging the Divide between AI Potential and Operational Reality in Urban Governance”
Ng Yim Chew Kloe delivered an exhibition showcase and a Young Researcher Spotlight address on embedding AI into municipal planning and governance workflows.
Read the full accountChina International Conference in Finance (CICF) 2026
“Informational Advantage of the Wealthy”
Cheng Longwei presented a paper co-authored with Profs. Sumit Agarwal, Poorya Kabir (NUS) and Pulak Ghosh (IIM Bangalore) with causal evidence linking wealthy investors’ outperformance to access to private information.
Read the full account2026 CAPANA Annual Research Conference
Jiang Yikang joined a doctoral consortium led by senior scholars including Profs. Christopher Stewart and Daniel Cohen, gaining guidance on building a research agenda and navigating academic publishing.
Read the full account2026 CAPANA Doctoral Consortium
Chen Kaiwen drew on sessions by Prof. Stewart and Prof. Zhang to plan a coherent early-career research agenda and explore field-experiment methods for causal identification.
Read the full account2026 CAPANA Doctoral Consortium and Annual Research Conference
Research design & the publication process
Zhao Wenqi gained guidance from senior scholars on identifying economically meaningful research questions and distinguishing empirical findings from theoretical contribution.
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“Weathering the Storm: Urban Consumption Responses and Resilience to Tropical Cyclones in China”
Guo Ruihua showed how local infrastructure buffers the economic shocks of tropical cyclones.
Read the full account2026 INFORMS MSOM Conference
“Revisiting the Role of Voucher and Referral Programs: Evidence from a Food-Rescue Platform”
Hao Wu presented her research, gathering feedback ahead of the academic job market and connecting with scholars on platform operations.
Read the full accountAcademy of Management Annual Meeting
“Fueled by the Leader’s Wins: How and When Leader Capitalization Motivates Approach-oriented Behaviors”
Chen Xiurong attended the AOM 2026 and Academy of Management Review (AMR) session, which included panel talks and roundtable discussions with members of the editorial team.
Read the full accountAcademy of Management Annual Meeting
“Career Similarity and Post-Acquisition Employee Outcomes in Technology M&A”
“First In, First Out: Status Dynamics of Careers in Emerging Technologies”
Lu Junyan presented her paper and received the STR Division Distinguished Paper Award (Resources, Capabilities, and Strategic Factor Markets Track) as well as inclusion in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Read the full accountAcademy of Management Conference
Yamon Min Ye used AOM to engage with prospective employers ahead of the faculty job market, while attending sessions on the ethics of AI aligned with her research interests.
Read the full accountAcademy of Management Annual Meeting
“Timing Matters: How Pre-Help Gratitude Expression Influences Help Autonomy and Willingness to Help”
Zhou Yu’s paper received a Best Paper designation; he also presented a second study on robots and social-class bias in a dedicated symposium.
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