Conference on Emerging Technologies in Accounting and Financial Economics

University of Southern California

May 20 21 2022 | Fertitta Hall Los Angeles CA

Conference Program

Friday May 20 2022

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

8:15 am: Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast - Fertitta Hall Basement Lobby

Welcome Remarks

8:45 am: Welcome Remarks -- Jerry Hoberg & Lorien Stice-Lawrence

Session 1: Jon Garfinkel Presiding

  • 9:00 - 9:45 am: "Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior"
    Presenter: Christina Zhu (University of Pennsylvania)
    Discussant: Douglas Skinner (University of Chicago)
  • 9:45 - 10:30 am: "Contagion of Investor Sentiment in Online Investment Communities"
    Presenter: Shijia Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen)
    Discussant: William Mullins (UC San Diego)

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break

Session 2: Bob Dittmar Presiding

  • 11:00 - 11:45 am: "Crypto Wash Trading"
    Presenter: William Cong (Cornell University)
    Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk (Berkeley)
  • 11:45 - 12:30 pm: "Investors' Beliefs and Cryptocurrency Prices"
    Presenter: Matteo Benetton (Berkeley)
    Discussant: Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (UCLA)

Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch - Suryan Plaza

Session 3: Forester Wong Presiding

  • 1:30 - 2:15 pm: "Does Social Media Reduce Corporate Misconduct?"
    Presenter: Jonas Heese (Harvard)
    Discussant: Patricia Dechow (University of Southern California)
  • 2:15 - 3:00 pm: "Does Interaction on Social Media Increase or Moderate Extremeness?"
    Presenter: Devin Shanthikumar (UC Irvine)
    Discussant: Travis Dyer (Brigham Young University)

Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

Session 4: Kevin Murphy Presiding

  • 3:30 - 4:15 pm: "Who Mismanages Student Loans and Why?"
    Presenter: Han Xia (University of Texas at Dallas)
    Discussant: James Choi (Yale)
  • 4:15 - 5:00 pm: Keynote Address
    Professor Nicholas Bloom
    William D. Eberle Professor of Economics Stanford University

Break

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

Pre-Dinner Reception

5:45 - 6:30 pm: Predinner Reception - Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC - Patio

Dinner

6:30 pm: Dinner - Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC - Scriptorium Room

Saturday May 21 2022

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

7:45 am: Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast - Fertitta Hall Basement Lobby

Session 5: Kristina Rennekamp Presiding

  • 8:15 - 9:00 am: "How Do Brokerages' Digital Engagement Practices Affect Retail Investor Information Processing and Trading?"
    Presenter: Austin Moss (University of Iowa)
    Discussant: Henry Friedman (UCLA)
  • 9:00 - 9:45 am: "Fractional Trading"
    Presenter: Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
    Discussant: Jonathan Rogers (University of Colorado)

Coffee Break

9:45 - 10:15 am: Coffee Break

Session 6: Stanimir Markov Presiding

  • 10:00 - 10:45 am: "Hidden Alpha"
    Presenter: Stephan Heller (University of St. Gallen)
    Discussant: Juhani Linnainmaa (Dartmouth)
  • 10:45 - 11:30 am: "Machine-Learning the Skill of Mutual Fund Managers"
    Presenter: Zihan Lin (Stanford)
    Discussant: Allan Timmerman (UC San Diego)

Closing Remarks

11:30 am: Closing Remarks

Box Lunch

11:40 am: Box Lunch - Fertitta Hall Basement Lobby

Conference Details

Conference Organizers

Conference Support

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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