Conference on Emerging Technologies in Accounting and Financial Economics

University of Southern California

March 29-30 2019 | Fertitta Hall Los Angeles CA

Conference Program

Friday March 29 2019

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:45 am: Continental Breakfast

Welcome Remarks

8:45 - 9:00 am: Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Session 1: Forester Wong Presiding

  • 9:00 - 9:45 am: Keynote Address
    Professor David Yermack
    Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation
    New York University Stern School of Business
  • 9:45 - 10:30 am: "Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning"
    Presenter: Lea Stern (University of Washington)
    Discussant: Joshua Lee (University of Georgia)

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break

Session 2: Oguzhan Ozbas Presiding

  • 11:00 - 11:45 am: "Analyst Conflict of Interest and Earnings Conference Call Informativeness"
    Presenter: Mani Sethuraman (Cornell University)
    Discussant: Kathleen Hanley (Lehigh University)
  • 11:45 - 12:30 pm: "Nonanswers During Conference Calls"
    Presenter: Ian Gow (University of Melbourne)
    Discussant: Gennaro Bernile (University of Miami)

Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch - patio between Fertitta Hall (JFF) and Popovich Hall (JKP)

Session 3: Yanhui Wu Presiding

  • 1:30 - 2:15 pm: "Trade with Ads"
    Presenter: Joshua Madsen (University of Minnesota)
    Discussant: Gustavo Grullon (Rice University)
  • 2:15 - 3:00 pm: "Not All Investors Know-The Investment Value of Spamming Consumer Opinions"
    Presenter: Daewoo Kim (Cornell University)
    Discussant: Rajiv Banker (Temple University)

Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

Session 4: Lorien Stice-Lawrence Presiding

  • 3:30 - 4:15 pm: "The Rise of Big Data: Predictive Analytics and the Management of the Firm"
    Presenter: Jim Omartian (University of Michigan)
    Discussant: John Bai (Northeastern University)
  • 4:15 - 5:00 pm: "Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs"
    Presenter: Don Bowen (Virginia Tech)
    Discussant: Mark Lang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Break

5:00 - 5:45 pm: Break (walk to University Club at 5:35 pm)

Pre-Dinner Reception

5:45 - 6:30 pm: Pre-dinner Reception - University Club Patio

Dinner

6:30 pm: Dinner & Keynote Address - University Club Scriptorum Room
Professor Wayne Guay, Yageo Professor of Accounting
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday March 30 2019

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast

Session 5: Yaron Levi Presiding

  • 9:00 - 9:45 am: "Initial Coin Offerings: Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market"
    Presenter: Thomas Bourveau (Columbia University)
    Discussant: Katie Moon (University of Colorado)
  • 9:45 - 10:30 am: "Information vs Investment"
    Presenter: Anastasia Zakolyukina (University of Chicago)
    Discussant: Jeremy Bertomeu (UC San Diego)

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break

Session 6: Dan O'Leary Presiding

  • 11:00 - 11:45 am: "Attention, Acquisition Costs, or Executive Information? Using Big Data to Uncover the Sources of Local Information"
    Presenter: Forester Wong (University of Southern California)
    Discussant: Scott Yonker (Cornell University)
  • 11:45 - 12:30 pm: "Learning from the Crowd: The Feedback Value of Crowdfunding"
    Presenter: Ting Xu (University of Virginia)
    Discussant: Beth Blankespoor (University of Washington)

Closing Remarks

12:30 - 12:40 pm: Closing Remarks

Box Lunch

12:40 pm: Boxed Lunch

Conference Details

Conference Organizers

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Examples of Emerging Technologies Explored in CETAFE

  • AI
  • Large language models
  • Big Data
  • Blockchain
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Social media or social networks
  • Peer-to-peer lending, crowdsourcing & microfinance
  • Agent-based modeling
  • Mobile payment systems
  • Financial aggregators
  • Prediction Markets
  • Robo-advising
  • Satellite imaging and cellphone signals
  • Geolocation
  • FinTech Intermediaries (e.g. RobinHood)
  • Quantum computing
  • Machine learning
  • Voice or facial recognition
  • Crowdsourcing (e.g., Mechanical Turk for data collection)
  • Internet records (e.g., Google, EDGAR web-search data)
  • Valuation of human capital or intellectual capital
  • Innovative novel data new to the literature
  • Novel network settings or spatial models
  • Any other new technologies not listed!

Sponsors

  • The Institute for Outlier Research in Business
  • Marshall School of Business (Finance and Business Economics Department)
  • Leventhal School of Accounting
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