Big Data and Securities Markets

Itay Goldstein, Chester S. Spatt, and Mao Ye, Organizers

December 1, 2023

Format: Presenters: 20 minutes; Discussants: 15 minutes; General Discussion: 10 minutes

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 1
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:29 am
News and Price Informativeness
8:30 am
Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University
Tse-Chun Lin, University of Hong Kong
Po-Yu Liu, National Taiwan University

Managerial Learning from Decoding Noisy Stock Prices: New(s) Evidence From Billions of Internet Article Reads
Discussant: Olivier Dessaint, INSEAD
9:15 am
Chukwuma Dim, George Washington University
Francesco Sangiorgi, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Grigory Vilkov, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Media Narratives and Price Informativeness
Discussant: William N. Goetzmann, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:14 am
Corporate Finance
10:15 am
Vanessa Krockenberger, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Anthony Saunders, New York University
Sascha Steffen, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Verhoff Paulina, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Covenant Violations, Loan Amendments, and Financial Distress in US Publicly Listed Firms: A Machine Learning Approach
Discussant: Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech
11:00 am
Luis Felipe Cabezon, Virginia Tech
Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California

Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding
Discussant: Eric C. So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:45 am
Lunch
12:44 pm
Mutual Funds
12:45 pm
Xiao Cen, Texas A&M University
Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Wei Wu, Texas A&M University

Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers
Discussant: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER
1:30 pm
Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
Thierry Foucault, HEC School of Management

Displaced by Big Data: Evidence from Active Fund Managers
Discussant: Russ Wermers, University of Maryland at College Park
2:15 pm
Break
2:29 pm
Generative AI and Finance
2:30 pm
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Gregor Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles
Bledi Taska, SkyHive
Miao Ben Zhang, University of Southern California

Generative AI and Firm Values
Discussant: Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
3:15 pm
Manish Jha, Georgia State University
Jialin Qian, Georgia State University
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER
Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University

ChatGPT and Corporate Policies
Discussant: Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:00 pm
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER

Asset Embeddings
Discussant: Serhiy Kozak, University of Maryland
4:45 pm
Adjourn