Animal Spirits on Steroids: Evidence from Retail Options Trading in India

Prof. Vikas Agarwal¹, Prof. Pulak Ghosh², Prof. Nagpurnanand Prabhala³, Prof. Haibei Zhao⁴

1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 3: John Hopkins University; 4: Lehigh University

Prompting Participation: Digital Nudging to Reduce Investment Inertia

Prof. Xiaomin Guo³, Prof. yi Huang², Prof. qi sun⁴, Prof. Bernard Yeung¹

1: NUS business school, Singapore; 2: Bank for International Settlements; 3: Southern university of Science and Technology Business School; 4: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

What Do Early Stage Investors Ask? An LLM Analysis of Expert Calls

Prof. Victor Lyonnet¹, Prof. Amin Shams², Prof. Shaojun Zhang²

1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: Ohio State University, United States of America

ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation: a Multitasking Approach

Prof. Vikas Agarwal¹, Prof. Juan-Pedro Gomez², Prof. Kasra Hosseini³, Prof. Manish Jha¹

1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: IE Business School, IE University, Madrid, Spain; 3: School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

More Than Meets the Eye (or Ear): Surprising Microstructure Effects of Fed Chair Nonverbal Cues in High-Frequency Markets

Prof. John Paul Broussard, Prof. Andrei Nikiforov

Rutgers University, United States of America

The Growth and Performance of Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Shuang Chen¹, Clemens Sialm², David Xiaoyu Xu³

1: University of Melbourne; 2: University of Texas at Austin; 3: Southern Methodist University

Political Influence on Green Innovation

Prof. Hsiu-I Ting¹, Prof. Yun-Chi Lee², Prof. J. Jimmy Yang³, Prof. Vincent F. Yu⁴

1: National Taipei University of Technology; 2: Soochow University; 3: Oregon State University; 4: National Taiwan University of Seince and Technology

Mandatory Central Clearing and Derivative Offsetting

Prof. John Zhang

Audencia Business School, France

Is Generative AI an Existential Threat to Human Creatives? Insights from Financial Economics

Prof. Jiasun Li

GMU

Does Social Media Help Level the Playing Field in Director Labor Markets? Evidence from Twitter

Prof. Lixiong Guo¹, Prof. Shawn Mobbs²

1: University of Mississippi, United States of America; 2: University of Alabama, United States of America

A Comprehensive Business Intelligence Analysis for Cryptocurrency Anomalies Detection

Prof. Dima Alberg, Prof. Elroi Hadad

SCE Shamoon College of Engineering

"Smart" Contracts and External Financing

Prof. Katrin Tinn

McGill University, Canada

The Unintended Consequences of Investing for the Long Run: Evidence from Target Date Funds

Prof. Massimo Massa^2,4, Prof. Rabih Moussawi³, Prof. Andrei Simonov^1,4

1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: INSEAD; 3: Villanova U; 4: CEPR

Liquid staking

Prof. Alfred Lehar¹, Prof. Christine Parlour², Prof. Kathy Yuan³

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: UC Berkeley; 3: London School of Economics

A Hierarchical State-Based Asset Pricing Model

Prof. Yulia Malitsky

Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse Business School Research Centre

On the Incentive Compatibility of Optimistic Blockchain Mechanisms

Prof. Jiasun Li

GMU

Forecasting Stock Prices with a News-Based Model

Prof. Anatoly Schmidt

NYU Tandon School, United States of America

Behavioural Foundations of Individual Cryptocurrency Adoption (Evidence from the Nordic countries and France)

Prof. Ylva Baeckstrom², Prof. Akanksha Jalan¹, Prof. Roman Matkovskyy¹

1: Rennes School of Business, France; 2: King's College London, UK

An Analytical Model for Loan Commitments Facing the Material Adverse Change

Prof. Dan Galai, Prof. Zvi Wiener

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Using Net-Zero Alignment Strength for Sustainable Portfolio Choice

Prof. Budha Bhattacharya^1,2, Prof. Maxime Kirgo², Prof. Anatoly Schimdt³

1: University College London; 2: Lombard Odier Investment Management; 3: Tandon School of Engineering, New York University

Tracing the learning curve: On cryptocurrency prices, volatility, and eventual adoption

Prof. Michael Wulfsohn

University of Oxford

Intangible Liabilities

Prof. Hamid Boustanifar¹, Prof. Arnt Verriest²

1: EDHEC Business School, France; 2: KU Leuven

Tradefeedr: Empowering Data-Driven Trading Decisions

Alexei Jiltsov

Tradefeedr, United Kingdom

Aggregate Confusion In Crypto Market Data

Prof. Gustavo Schwenkler¹, Prof. Aakash Shah², Prof. Darren Yang²

1: Santa Clara University, United States of America; 2: Indicia Labs, United States of America

Operating Leverage and Risk Premium

Prof. Leonid Kogan¹, Prof. Jun Li², Prof. Harold Zhang¹, Prof. Yifan Zhu³

1: MIT; 2: UT Dallas, United States of America; 3: BI Norwegian Business School

Bridging Asia and Europe: Japan’s Next-Generation FinTech Ecosystem & Cross-Border Collaboration Opportunities

Prof. Yuki Kishi

Fintech Association of Japan, Japan

Market Power and the Bitcoin Protocol

Prof. Alfred Lehar¹, Prof. Christine Parlour²

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: UC Berkeley

The Private Value of Open-Source Innovation

Prof. Logan P. Emery¹, Prof. Chan Lim², Prof. Shiwei Ye¹

1: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; 2: School of Management, University at Buffalo

The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes

Prof. Virginia Gianinazzi¹, Prof. Andreas Fuster², Prof. Andreas Hackethal³, Prof. Philip Schnorpfeil³, Prof. Michael Weber⁴

1: Nova SBE, Portugal; 2: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL); 3: Goethe University Frankfurt; 4: University of Chicago Booth School of Business

A Theory Model of Digital Currency with Asymmetric Privacy

Prof. Katrin Tinn

McGill University, Canada

The Different Networks Of Firms Implied By The News

Prof. Victor Hilt², Prof. Gustavo Schwenkler¹

1: Santa Clara University, United States of America; 2: Wellington Management, United States of America

What is an Effective Signal in Crowdfunding? Evidence from Expert Researchers and a Meta-Study

Prof. Lars Hornuf¹, Prof. Johannes Voshaar²

1: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; 2: University of Bremen, Germany

Behavior on Blockchains: Trading Activity in Tokenized Financial Assets

Prof. Stefan Scharnowski

University of Mannheim, Germany

Economic Drivers of Investor Search Behavior in Financial Information Markets

Prof. José Gabriel Astaiza-Gómez

Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends

Valeria Fedyk¹, De-Rong Kong², Daniel Rabetti³

1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Yuan Ze University; 3: National University of Singapore

Pacioli in the computer age

Prof. Willi Brammertz, Prof. Allan I. Mendelowitz, Prof. Willi Brammertz

Ariadne, Switzerland

Fighting Climate Change with FinTech

Prof. Antonio Gargano¹, Prof. Alberto Rossi²

1: University of Houston, United States of America; 2: Georgetown University, United States of America

Implied Impermanent Loss: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Decentralized Liquidity Pools

Prof. Lorenzo Schoenleber¹, Prof. Andrew Papanicolaou², Prof. Tom Li³, Prof. Siddharth Naik⁴

1: Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy; 2: North Carolina State University; 3: NYU - Courant Institute of Mathematical Science; 4: Independent Portfolio Managers

frntr-X - Tokenizing Africa: Unlocking Capital for High-Impact Real Assets through Blockchain

Prof. Sven-Roger Baron von Schilling

svs Capital Partners GmbH, Germany

Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty in Finance

Prof. Willi Brammertz, Prof. Allan I. Mendelowitz, Prof. Robert Mark, Prof. Willi Brammertz

Ariadne, Switzerland

Do Gamified Social Interactions on a Green Fintech App Nudge Users’ Green Investments?

Prof. Chuwen Chen¹, Prof. Tse-Chun Lin², Prof. Xingguo Luo¹

1: Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of; 2: The University of Hong Kong

Collateral Choice

Prof. Benedikt Fabian Ballensiefen^1,2

1: University of Cologne; 2: Centre of Financial Research

Breaking the Rules: How Open Source can be used as a competitive edge in Finance

Prof. Alex Lakatos

Interledger Foundation, USA

Crowdfunded Microfinance

Prof. Tse-Chun Lin, Prof. Runtong Lin

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Hidden Liquidity - Evidence from the Introduction of Iceberg Orders

Prof. Stefan Scharnowski

University of Mannheim, Germany

Hybridized Human-AI Financial Decision-Making via a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

Ben Kogan, Dan Furman, Eitan Kay, Kuan-Jung Chiang

Arctop, Inc., United States of America

Bitcoin Mining for Carbon Emission Reduction

Prof. Jiasun Li

GMU

Smart Advice? A Case-Based Analysis of Robo-Advisory Efficiency

Prof. Gustavo Adolfo Mota Salinas¹, Prof. Jelena Stankevičienė¹, Prof. Michael Christofi^2,1

1: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Cyprus University of Technology

Unlocking Digital Mortgages: Opportunities and Challenges Across the EU

Tibor Zavadil

DigFin, a.s., Slovak Republic

The regulation of cryptocurrency markets: an exchange-centric view of illicit activity on the Bitcoin blockchain

Prof. Hossein Jahanshahloo¹, Prof. Paul Momtaz², Prof. Andrew Urquhart³, Prof. Amin Shams⁴

1: Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3: School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany; 4: Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, United States

Human preferences and frequency of interaction with algorithmic advisers

Prof. Elena Asparouhova¹, Prof. Milo Bianchi², Prof. Debrah Meloso³

1: University of Utah, USA; 2: Toulouse School of Economics, France; 3: TBS Business School, France

Transmission Dynamics in Crypto Markets: Comparing Volatility and Liquidity Spillover Networks

Prof. Barbara Będowska-Sójka¹, Prof. Aleksander Mercik²

1: Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland; 2: Wrocław University of Economics, Poland

Minimal dynamic equilibria

Prof. David Feldman¹, Prof. Dietmar Leisen²

1: UNSW Sydney, Australia; 2: University of Meinz, Germany

Mapping the Perspectives of Central Bankers, Centralised Finance and Decentralised Finance Industries on CBDC

Prof. Evelina Kvedaraviciute^1,2, Prof. Alfreda Šapkauskienė¹, Prof. Mikhail Oet³

1: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Bank of Lithuania; 3: Northeastern University, US, Boston

ETF (Mis)pricing

Prof. Andrei Kirilenko

Cambridge Judge Business School, United Kingdom

GNU Taler: Privacy for Inclusion, Free Software for Innovation

Prof. Christian Grothoff^1,2,3,4

1: Taler Systems SA, Luxembourg; 2: Taler Operations AG, Switzerland; 3: Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; 4: The GNU Project

Unbundling everyday banking industry and its implications on critical infrastructure resilience

Prof. Andra Sonea

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Corporate Bond ETFs & Volatility

Prof. Caitlin Dannhauser¹, Prof. Egle Karmaziene²

1: Villanova University, The USA; 2: VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Generative AI and Business Model Innovation in Banking

Prof. Deepak Ravichandran¹, Prof. Markus Bick²

1: ESCP Business School, United Kingdom; 2: ESCP Business School, Berlin, Germany

Drawing the Line between Bond Dealer and Bandit

Prof. Vladimir Atanasov¹, Prof. John Merrick¹, Prof. Philipp Schuster²

1: William & Mary, United States of America; 2: University of Stuttgart

Can Event Study Methodology Keep Up with Cryptocurrencies?

Prof. Juliane Proelss, Prof. Denis Schweizer, Prof. Weiyu Gao

Concordia University, Canada

Another Look at the Tail Risk Premium Anomaly

Prof. Evarist Stoja

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Social Media Credibility and Financial Market Activity

Prof. Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi¹, Prof. David Rakowski², Prof. Mahmut Yasar²

1: Roger Williams University, United States of America; 2: University of Texas at Arlington

Do Lenders Price Firms’ Cybersecurity Risks?

Prof. BOK MIN CHOI, Prof. Hans Degryse, Prof. Kristien Smedts

KU Leuven, Belgium

The Influence of Social Media Bots on Financial Markets

Prof. Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi¹, Prof. David Rakowski²

1: Roger Williams University, United States of America; 2: University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America

AI Boost and Demographic Bust: Is “Hi-Tech Feudalism” inevitable?

Haim Kedar-Levy

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel