Financial Fraud and Investors Awareness - Sunny Huang (HKUST)
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 2019-06-29

In this seminar, the speaker suggests that investors are exploited by financial fraud due to their unawareness of the underlying high risks associated with high returns. He emphasizes and explains the importance of providing education to investors.

He also mentions the model in which a firm strategically chooses whether to offer a fraudulent product to naive investors, and its result about improvement in investors' welfare.

Sunny Huang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and IEMS Faculty Associate at HKUST. His current research projects tackle problems in procurement, public resource allocation, corruption, and market design. Find out more at https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/huang-financial-fraud-and-investor-awareness