AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship
by Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov
UMD AI in Finance Conference (DC): June 2025
by Ruslan Goyenko, Bryan Kelly, Tobias Moskowitz, Yinan Su, and Chao Zhang
NBER Long Term Asset Management (Chicago): April 2025
Looking Under the Hood of Data Mining
by Mathias Hasler
MFA (Chicago): March 2025
The Expected Returns of Machine Learning Strategies
by Vitor Azevedo, Christopher Hoegner, and Mihail Velikov
AFA (San Francisco): January 2025
Machine Learning and the Implementable Efficient Frontier*
by Theis Jensen, Bryan Kelly, Semyon Malamud, and Lasse Pedersen
AFA (San Antonio): January 2024
*After discussing with Theis and Semyon I realized that the optimal strategy requires reinforcement learning, which is not as easy as saying "Tensorflow."
Big Data vs Post-Truth Finance
for the panel session: "Stock Return Anomalies: the p-hacking Debate," with Avanidhar Subra, Amit Goyal, and Jeff Pontiff.
FMA (Chicago): October 2023
The Factor Multiverse: The Role of Interest Rates in Factor Return Measurement and Discovery
by Jules H. van Binsbergen, Liang Ma, and Michael Schwert
CICF (Shanghai): July 2023
What Drives Momentum and Reversal? Evidence from Day and Night Signals
by Yashar Barardehi, Vincent Bogousslavsky, and Dimitriy Muravyev
WFA (San Francisco): June 2023
by Svetlana Bryzgalova, Martin Lettau, Sven Lerner, and Markus Pelger
SFS Cavalcade (UT Austin): May 2023
by Dreber, A., Menkveld, A. J., Holzmeister, F., Johannesson, M., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., ... & Lajaunie, Q. (a.k.a. #fincap)
FIRS (Budapest): June 2022
by Pat Akey, Adriana Z. Robertson, and Mikhail Simutin
SFS Cavalcade (Chapel Hill): May 2022
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels
by Joachim Freyberger, Bjorn Hoppner, Andreas Neuhierl, and Michael Weber
WSIR (Virtual): May 2022
Discussion "co-authored" with Jack McCoy
Smart Beta Made Smart: Synthetic Risk Factors for Institutional and Retail Investors
by Andreas Johansson, Riccardo Sabbatucci, and Andrea Tamoni
MFA, March 2022
Intangible Capital in Factor Models
by Huseyin Gulen, Dongmei Li, Ryan H. Peters, and Morad Zekhnini
CFEA, November 2021
Is There a Replication Crisis in Finance?
by Theis Ingerslev Jensen, Bryan T. Kelly, and Lasse Heje Pedersen
CICF (Virtual), February 2021
Model Selection with Transaction Costs
by Andrew Detzel, Robert Novy-Marx, and Mihail Velikov
FMA (Virtual), October 2020
by Aaron Pancost and Garrett Schaller
MFA (Virtual), August 2020
Procyclicality of the Comovement between Dividend Growth and Consumption Growth
by Nancy Xu
MFA, February 2018
The Stock Market–Real Economy "Disconnect": A Closer Look , with Markus Ibert and Francisco Vazquez-Grande, FEDS Note, 2020
During Covid, the part of the stock market that "should be" connected was closely connected.
Financing Concerns in April 2020 Appear Worse Than in 2008 Based on Earnings Calls, with Jie Yang, Unpublished, 2021
Has the Inflation Risk Premium Fallen? Is It Now Negative?, with Eric Engstrom and Olesya Grishchenko. FEDS Note, 2016
In 2015, inflation compensation fell, perhaps because its correlation with stocks changed.