Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics

Toni Whited and Mao Ye, Organizers

July 16, 2022

Parkview Room

Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 15
6:30 pm
Dinner at Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, July 16
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Retail Trading
9:00 am
Thomas Ernst, University of Maryland
Chester S. Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Payment for Order Flow and Asset Choice
Discussant: Neil Pearson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:45 am
Cheng Luo, Farallon Capital Management
Enrichetta Ravina, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University
Luis M. Viceira, Harvard University and NBER

Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect
Discussant: Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
10:30 am
Break
Statistical Learning in Asset Pricing
10:50 am
Rui Da, University of Chicago
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
Dacheng Xiu, and NBER

The Statistical Limit of Arbitrage
Discussant: Andreas Neuhierl, Washington University in St. Louis
11:35 am
Ron Kaniel, University of Rochester
Zihan Lin, Stanford University
Markus Pelger, Stanford University and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Machine-Learning the Skill of Mutual Fund Managers (slides)
Discussant: Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
12:20 pm
Lunch - Charles Room
Alternative Data in Corporate Finance
1:20 pm
Marco Di Maggio, Imperial College Business School
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara, Louisiana State University
Don Carmicheal, Upstart

Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data
Discussant: Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
2:05 pm
Utku A. Acikalin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Tolga Caskurlu, University of Amsterdam
Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER

Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning
Discussant: Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
2:50 pm
Break
High-Performance Computing
3:10 pm
Bhagath Cheela, University of Pennsylvania
André DeHon, University of Pennsylvania
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Alessandro Peri, University of Colorado Boulder

Programming FPGAs for Economics: An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics
Discussant: Victor Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:55 pm
Ran Chang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame

The Dark Side of the Cloud
Discussant: Christina Zhu, University of Pennsylvania
4:40 pm
Adjourn