# BISETTI, Emilio

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BISETTI, Emilio

Assistant Professor

Department of Finance

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### Recent Activities

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[How Supervision Can Boost Shareholder Value](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/how-supervision-can-boost-shareholder-value)

[Financial Market](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/financial-market)

[Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/regulation)

[Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/disclosure)

Contrary to the common belief that financial supervision is costly for bank shareholders, agency theory indicates that supervisors’ audits can actually save shareholders money. Emilio Bisetti of HKUST examines this apparent contradiction in a unique setting—a sudden and unexpected decrease in off-site surveillance by the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed). “A
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

[Read Full Paper](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2021.03083)

[BISETTI, Emilio](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/bisetti-emilio)

KAROLYI, Stephen A

[The Perils of Performance Targeting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/08/perils-performance-targeting)

[Firm Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-performance)

[Targeting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/targeting)

[Earnings Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/earnings-management)

[banks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/banks)

Performance targeting—setting short-term financial goals—is pervasive in today’s financial markets, but it may come at a cost. HKUST’s Emilio Bisetti and a colleague explore how public banks strategically alter their deposit pricing strategies when they face pressure to meet earnings per share (EPS) targets. “The general consensus is that, by encouraging
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

[Read Full Paper](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jofi.13369)

ZALDOKAS , Alminas

[BISETTI, Emilio](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/bisetti-emilio)

[Supplying Finance to Supply Chains](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/07/supplying-finance-supply-chains)

[International Business](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/international-business)

[Supply Chain](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/supply-chain)

[Cross-country Study](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/cross-country-study)

[Financial Strategy](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/financial-strategy)

[Financing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/financing)

Research at HKUST informs the debate about the benefits of uniform financial regulation across countries and looks into the effects of the financial intermediation in facilitating international trade.
By Associate Professor Alminas ZALDOKAS (left) and Assistant Professor Emilio BISETTI, Department of Finance at HKUST Business School
International trade
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[ [International Trade](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/international-trade "International Trade") ]