On the afternoon of May 14, 2025 (Wednesday), CUFE Business School successfully held the CUFE 2025 Special Academic Lecture and the Thirteenth Lecture of the Academic Excellence Lecture Theatre of CUFE Business School 2025 in Conference Room 602 of the Main Teaching Building on the South College Road Campus. The lecture invited Prof. Chen Jin, Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Finance at Shanghai Business School, as the guest speaker. Faculty members, doctoral students, master's students from CUFE Business School, and scholars from other universities attended the academic event.
The event was hosted by Associate Prof. Dou Chao of CUFE Business School. At the beginning of the lecture, Associate Prof. Dou Chao introduced Prof. Chen Jin's academic achievements in detail. Prof. Chen Jin is currently the Discipline Leader in Accounting and Finance at Shanghai Business School. He previously served as the Leon Page Endowed Professor of Finance at Western Kentucky University and a Tenured Distinguished Professor at Dalian University of Technology. Holding the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification and the title of Fulbright Scholar awarded by the U.S. State Department, he obtained a Master of Economics, Master of Finance, and Doctor of Finance from the University of Alabama. Prof. Chen Jin's research areas cover green finance, initial public offerings, corporate governance, analyst behavior, and internal controls, with over 300 journal publications in top-tier journals such as Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and European Accounting Review. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics and Finance, and Journal of Economic Surveys, has acted as an anonymous reviewer for over 500 journal papers, and was listed in the 2024 China High-Cited Scholars (Applied Economics) list.
Prof. Chen Jin delivered a lecture titled "Does the Adoption of a Central Bank Digital Currency Stimulate Corporate Innovation? Evidence from Electronic Chinese Yuan Adoption". Based on data from the phased pilot of the digital Chinese yuan (e-CNY) in China, he explored the incentive effect of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on corporate innovation. The lecture analyzed how the digital yuan promotes the quantity, quality, and efficiency of corporate innovation by enhancing the transparency and traceability of government subsidies, alleviating corporate agency problems, and reducing financial constraints. A difference-in-differences research design showed that compared with the control group, R&D expenditures of pilot enterprises increased significantly, and innovation activities further boosted productivity, product differentiation, growth capacity, and profitability, enhancing corporate market competitiveness. Prof. Chen Jin's research revealed the positive contribution of CBDCs as financial technology innovations to the development of the real economy, providing profound academic inspiration to the audience.
After the lecture, faculty and students engaged in in-depth exchanges and lively discussions on topics such as the implementation mechanisms of the digital yuan, driving factors of corporate innovation, research methodology design, and future trends in financial technology, significantly enriching the collision and integration of academic ideas.
As an important platform to fulfill the mission of "contributing new knowledge to management," the "Academic Excellence Lecture Theatre" of CUFE Business School is committed to focusing on cutting-edge issues in business administration and the management practices of Chinese enterprises, gathering global wisdom and innovative perspectives to provide theoretical support and practical solutions for the sustainable development of Chinese society and the economy.
