Conference Agenda

From in-person to online: the new shape of the VC industry

Liudmila Alekseeva¹, Silvia Dalla Fontana², Caroline Genc³, Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar⁴

1: IESE Business School; 2: USI Lugano and SFI; 3: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; 4: University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Corporate Social Responsibility Programs and Shareholder Value

Jinyoung Kim

Boston College, United States of America

What Does the Market Know?

Irina Luneva

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Asset Pricing with Complexity

Mads Bibow Busborg Nielsen

Université de Lausanne (SFI), Switzerland

Futures Trading Costs and Market Microstructure Invariance: Identifying Bet Activity

Ai Jun Hou, Lars Nordén, Caihong Xu

Stockholm Business School, Sweden

ETFs, Anomalies and Market Efficiency

Ilias Filippou¹, Songrun He², Sophia Zhengzi Li³, Guofu Zhou⁴

1: Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America; 2: Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America; 3: Rutgers University; 4: Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America

The Social Signal

Anthony Cookson¹, Runjing Lu², William Mullins³, Marina Niessner⁴

1: University of Colorado at Boulder; 2: University of Alberta; 3: University of California, San Diego; 4: University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Isabella Wolfskeil (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Information Waves and Firm Investment

Feng Chi

Cornell University, United States of America

Discussant: Olivier Dessaint (INSEAD)

Wisdom of the Institutional Crowd: Implications for Anomaly Returns

AJ Chen, Gerard Hoberg, Miao Ben Zhang

University of Southern California, United States of America

Discussant: Jonathan Brogaard (University of Utah)

When Crowds Aren’t Wise: Biased Signals From Investor Social Networks and its Price Impact

Edna Lopez Avila, Charles Martineau, Jordi Mondria

University of Toronto, Canada

Discussant: Roberto Gomez (London Business School)

All in a Day's Work: What Do We Learn from Analysts' Bloomberg Usage?

Azi Ben-Rephael², Bruce Carlin³, Zhi Da⁴, Ryan Israelsen¹

1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: Rutgers University; 3: Rice University; 4: Notre Dame University

Discussant: Rawley Heimer (Arizona State University)

What Do Questions Reveal? Skill Acquisition, Detection, and Recognition in the Capital Markets

Ling Cen¹, Yanru Han¹, Jarrad Harford²

1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: University of Washington

Discussant: Tamara Nefedova (ESCP Business School)

Market opacity and fragility

Giovanni Cespa¹, Xavier Vives²

1: Bayes Business School, United Kingdom; 2: IESE Business School

Discussant: Sabrina Buti (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)

Uncertainty about What’s in the Price

Joel Peress¹, Daniel Schmidt²

1: INSEAD, France; 2: HEC-Paris, France

Discussant: Sophie Moinas (Toulouse School of Economics)

Effects of Information Overload on Financial Markets: How Much Is Too Much?

Alejandro Bernales¹, Marcela Valenzuela², Ilknur Zer³

1: Universidad de Chile; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile; 3: Federal Reserve Board

Discussant: Theis Ingerslev Jensen (Copenhagen Business School)

(Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment

Jules H. van Binsbergen^1,3, Svetlana Bryzgalova^2,4, Mayukh Mukhopadhyay², Varun Sharma⁵

1: Wharton; 2: London Business School; 3: NBER; 4: CEPR; 5: Nanyang Business School

Discussant: Simona Abis (Columbia University)

The Value of Data to Fixed Income Investors

Jian Li¹, Jennie Bai², Asaf Manela³

1: Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Georgetown University; 3: Reichman University and Washington University of St. Louis,

Discussant: Sean Seunghun Shin (Aalto University)

The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence by Venture Capitalists

Maxime Bonelli

HEC Paris, France

Discussant: Gilles Chemla (Imperial College Business School, CNRS, and CEPR)

Peer-reviewed theory does not help predict the cross-section of stock returns

Andrew Y. Chen¹, Alejandro Lopez-Lira², Tom Zimmermann³

1: Federal Reserve Board; 2: University of Florida; 3: University of Cologne, Germany

Discussant: Yinan Su (Johns Hopkins University)

Anomaly or Possible Risk Factor? Simple-To-Use Tests

Benjamin Holcblat¹, Abraham Lioui², Michael Weber³

1: University of Luxembourg; 2: EDHEC Business School.; 3: Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, CEPR, and NBER.

Discussant: Carter Davis (Indiana University)

Does IT help? Information Technology in Banking and Entrepreneurship

Yannick Timmer¹, Sebastian Doerr², Toni Ahnert³, Nicola Pierri⁴

1: Federal Reserve Board; 2: BIS; 3: ECB; 4: IMF

Discussant: Junli Zhao (Bayes Business School)

Borrowing from a Bigtech Platform

Jian Li¹, Stefano Pegoraro²

1: Columbia University, United States of America; 2: University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business

Discussant: Jing Zeng (University of Bonn)

Informed Trading Intensity

Vincent Bogousslavsky¹, Vyacheslav Fos¹, Dmitriy Muravyev²

1: Boston College; 2: Michigan State University

Discussant: George Malikov (University of Western Ontario, Ivey Business School)

Proving You Can Pick Stocks Without Revealing How

Alexander Chinco

Baruch College, United States of America

Discussant: Michele Fabi (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST, IP Paris)

Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers

Rachel J. Nam^1,2

1: Goethe University Frankfurt; 2: Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Discussant: Matthias Efing (HEC Paris)

Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud

Bo Bian¹, Michaela Pagel², Huan Tang³

1: University of British Columbia; 2: Columbia Graduate School of Business, NBER, and CEPR.; 3: London School of Economics and CEPR

Discussant: Guillaume Vuillemey (HEC Paris)