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Dr Hong Bo

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Business and Management
Email: hb22@soas.ac.uk
Room: 529, College Building

Research Interests:

  • Firm Investment Decisions;
  • Corporate Finance;
  • Financial Economics;
  • China

Selected Publications:

Bo, Hong, Nonlinear Effects of Debt on Firm Investment: Evidence from Dutch Listed Firms, Forthcoming, European Journal of Finance.

Bo, Hong and Elmer Sterken (2007) Attitude towards Risk, Uncertainty and Fixed Investment, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 18(1), 59-75.

Bo, Hong (2006), An Empirical Examination of the Hangover Effect of Irreversibility on Investment, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 53 (3), 358-376.

Bo, Hong, Jan Jacobs, and Elmer Sterken (2006) A Threshold Uncertainty Investment Model for the Netherlands, Applied Financial Economics, 16, 665-673.

Bo, Hong and Robert Lensink (2005) Is the Investment-Uncertainty Relationship Non-Linear? An Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands, Economica, 72, 307-331.

Bo, Hong (2004) Inventories and Fixed Investment, Australian Economic Papers, 43, 406-421.

Bo, Hong, Robert Lensink, and Elmer Sterken (2003) Uncertainty and Financial Constraints, European Finance Review, 7(2), 297-321.

Bo, Hong and Elmer Sterken (2002) Volatility of the Interest Rate, Debt and Firm Investment: Dutch Evidence, Journal of Corporate Finance, 8 (2), 179-193.

Bo, Hong (2002) Idiosyncratic Uncertainty and Firm Investment, Australian Economic Papers, 41(1), 1-14.

Bo, Hong and Zhihai Zhang (2002) The Impact of Uncertainty on Firm Investment: Evidence from Machinery Industry in Liaoning Province of China (with Zhihai Zhang), Economic Systems, 26(4), 335-352.

Bo, Hong, Gerard Kuper, Robert Lensink, and Elmer Sterken (2002) Dutch Inventory Investment: Are Capital Market Imperfections Relevant? Applied Economics, 2002, 34, 15-22.

Bo, Hong (2001) Volatility of Sales, Expectation Errors, and Inventory Investment: Firm Level Evidence, International Journal of Production Economics, 72, 273-283.

Lensink, Robert, Hong Bo and Elmer Sterken (2001) Investment, Capital Market Imperfections and Uncertainty: Theory and Empirical Results, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Lensink, Robert, Hong Bo and Elmer Sterken (1999) Does Uncertainty Affect Economic Growth? An Empirical Analysis, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 1999, 135, 379-396.

Courses Taught:

  • Economic Development and Business Environment in China
  • Research Methods