SI 2025 Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics
Organized by Toni Whited and Mao Ye
Supported by the Office of Financial Research through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation
July 12, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Format: 20 minutes for the presenter; 15 minutes for the discussant; 10 minutes Q&A.
Friday, July 11
6:30 pm
Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow BC Room
Saturday, July 12
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Alternative Data
8:30 am

Due Diligence and the Allocation of Venture Capital

Jack Xiaoyong Fu, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Lucian A. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Discussant:
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
9:15 am

Banks’ Images: Evidence from Financial Advertising

Xugan Chen, Yale University
Allen Hu, University of British Columbia
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Lulu Wang, Northwestern University
10:00 am
Break
Trading
10:15 am

Dark Crypto

Thomas Ernst, University of Maryland, College Park
Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University
Chester S. Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
Fahad Saleh, University of Florida
11:00 am

Unpacking Retail Trading Costs: the Role of Options Trading and Limit Order Usage

Yashar Barardehi, Chapman University
Vincent Bogousslavsky, Boston College
Dmitriy Muravyev, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussant:
Andriy Shkilko, University of Georgia
11:45 am

Bundling Trades in Over-the-Counter Markets

Jason Allen, Bank of Canada
Milena Wittwer, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Chaojun Wang, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 pm
Lunch - Riverfront Room
Usage of Data
1:30 pm

The Power of the Common Task Framework

Oliver Hellum, Copenhagen Business School
Theis I. Jensen, Yale University
Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Lasse H. Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School

Discussant:
Christophe Perignon, HEC Paris
2:15 pm

Breaking the Data Chain: The Ripple Effect of Data Sharing Restrictions on Financial Markets

Simona Abis, University of Colorado Boulder
Bo Bian, University of British Columbia
Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Olivier Dessaint, INSEAD
3:00 pm
Break
Large Language Models
3:15 pm

Chronologically Consistent Large Language Models

Songrun He, Washington University in St. Louis
Linying Lv, Washington University in St. Louis
Asaf Manela, Washington University in St. Louis
Jimmy Wu, Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant:
Suproteem K. Sarkar, University of Chicago
4:00 pm

When Regulation Falls Short: Evidence from “Other Events” Disclosures

Sean S. Cao, University of Maryland, College Park
Zhongling Qin, Auburn University
Tao Shu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Discussant:
Marina Niessner, Indiana University
4:45 pm
Adjourn