Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Financial Economics

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

December 13, 2024

Format: 20 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussants and 20 minutes for general discussions

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 13
8:00am
Continental Breakfast
8:30am
AI and Labor Market
Philip Bond, University of Washington
Lukas Kremens, University of Washington

Income and Inequality under Asymptotically Full Automation (slides)
Discussant: Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Naman Nishesh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel
Discussant: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER
9:50am
Break
10:10am
Measuring Economic Activities Using AI
Ali Kakhbod, University of California, Berkeley
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peiyao Li, University of California, Berkeley
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER

Measuring Creative Destruction
Discussant: Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
Anna M. Costello, University of Chicago
Bradford (Lynch) Levy, University of Chicago Booth
Valeri Nikolaev, University of Chicago

Uncovering Information: Can Language Models Tell Us Where to Look?
Discussant: Tim Loughran, University of Notre Dame
11:30am
Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

What Hundreds of Economic News Events Say About Belief Overreaction in the Stock Market
Discussant: Francesca Bastianello, University of Chicago
12:10pm
Lunch
1:30pm
AI, Algorithm, and Retail Trading
Robert P. Bartlett III, Stanford University
Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University

Navigating the Murky World of Hidden Liquidity
Discussant: Thomas Ernst, University of Maryland
Amber Anand, Syracuse University
Mehrdad Samadi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Jonathan Sokobin, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University

Retail Limit Orders
Discussant: Joel Hasbrouck, New York University
2:50pm
Break
3:10pm
Designing Artificial Homo Economicus
Yiming Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Do Mutual Funds Benefit from the Adoption of AI Technology?
Discussant: Simona Abis, University of Colorado Boulder
Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yuhan Cheng, Shandong University
Yanchu Liu, Sun Yat-sen University
Ke Tang, Tsinghua University

Teaching Economics to the Machines
Discussant: Andrew Patton, Duke University
4:30pm
Adjourn