External Funded Projects

  • "Robust Optimization Theory and Its Applications", Excellent Young Scientists Fund - National Natural Science Foundation of China, (2025-2027), Zhi Chen
  • "Unified Analytical Method for Individual Heterogeneity and Time-Varying Mechanisms in High-Dimensional Cross-Sectional Data and Its Application in Capital Asset Pricing", General Project - National Natural Science Foundation of China, (2025-2028), Liyuan Cui
  • "Illusion of stock return predictability: find the heterogeneity", Young Scientists Fund - National Natural Science Foundation of China, (2025-2027), Jingyu He
  • "Are asset pricing models sparse?", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2025-2027), Jingyu He
  • "Time-Varying Coefficient Modeling for Factor Selection in Asset Pricing", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2024-2026), Guanhao Feng, Jiangshan Yang
  • "Estimating and Testing Time Variation Modeling Misspecification", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2024-2026), Liyuan Cui, Guanhao Feng
  • "A Distribution-Free Model of Time Series", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2024-2025), Zhi Chen
  • "Regression Tree for Portfolio Optimization and Imbalanced Data", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2023-2025), Jingyu He, Guanhao Feng, Xin He
  • "Capital Market Opening and Risk Management: Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect", Youth Scientists Fund - NSFC, (2023-2025), Guanhao Feng
  • "Robust Mechanism Design with Limited Information", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2023-2025), Zhi Chen
  • "Financial Systemic Risk Measures based on Monte Carlo Simulation: Theory and Methods", NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme - NSFC, (2022-2025), Jingyu He, Zhi Chen
  • "Textual Analysis of Corporate Bond Market", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2022-2024), Guanhao Feng, Junbo Wang, Xin He
  • "High Dimensional Time-varying Forecast Combination: A Unified Approach for Abrupt and Smooth Instabilities", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2022-2023), Liyuan Cui
  • "XBART, a novel tree-based machine learning framework for regression, classification and treatment effect estimation", Early Career Scheme - HKRGC, (2022-2023), Jingyu He
  • "Estimation and Inference of Large Dimensional Unobservable Dynamic Uncertainties", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2021-2022), Liyuan Cui
  • "The Hurwicz Criterion for Data-Driven Decision-Making under Uncertainty", Early Career Scheme - HKRGC, (2020-2023), Zhi Chen
  • "A Deep-Learning Approach in Asset-Pricing Anomalies", Early Career Scheme - HKRGC, (2019-2021), Guanhao Feng
  • "Non-parametric Effective Estimation Method for Non-linear and Non-stationary Variables and Its Application in Capital Asset Pricing Theory", Youth Scientists Fund - NSFC, (2019-2021), Liyuan Cui
  • "A Mixed Convex Penalized Machine Learning Approach for High-Dimensional Financial Data with its Application on Vast Portfolio Selections", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2019-2020), Liyuan Cui
  • "A Local Series Estimation Method with its Application in Solving Asset Pricing Models with Time-Varying State Variables", Early Career Scheme - HKRGC, (2018-2019), Liyuan Cui