News!

https://mf-conference.com/mfc2026/ 

I am very fortunate to be one of the keynote speakers at the conference.  Looking forward to seeing great papers and participating in interesting discussions.

https://www.stevens.edu/page-right-nav/craft-fall-2025-iab-meeting  

I am very fortunate to be one of the keynote speakers at the conference.  Looking forward to seeing great papers and participating in interesting discussions.

https://ca-china2025.aconf.org/login.html 

I am very fortunate to be one of the keynote speakers at the conference.  Looking forward to seeing great papers and participating in interesting discussions.

June 26, 2025, Thursday, 15:15-16:30

EFMA2025 Special Session: “FinTech and AI in Finance”

(Open to All conference delegates)

Organizer: Professor Douglas Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University

Moderator: Professor Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

Session Room: TBA

3 Panelists:

Professor, Markus Pelger, Stanford University       

Presentation Title “Do AI-Algorithmic Traders Lead to Market Instability? A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach”

Professor, Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Presentation Title “Do Public Equities Span Private Equity Returns?”

Professor, Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley Haas 

Presentation Title “The Effects of AI on Firms and Workers”

https://www.swfinance.org/ 

A video of my presentation on Government Contracting around the World is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99IBOV3Imo&feature=youtu.be 

The paper is available here: 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4809238 

In January 2025, I started as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Alternative Investments.

The JAI is the premiere journal on alternative investments, integrating academics, policy, and practice.  We are indebted to Professor Hossein Kazemi and his editorial team for their excellent work over the past 10 years. The size and scope of the market for alternative investments is growing and the JAI will continue to provide key insights into these developments, disseminating leading theories and applications in alternative investment research.

Conference details and call for papers here

Conference details and call for papers here

Conference Website Here

Conference details and call for papers here

I look forward to the International Conference on Sustainable Development & Business Ethics (ICSDBE) May 30-31, 2024, in Tunis.

I will give a keynote on ESG violations. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4430217  

I will give a keynote on ESG violations. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4430217  

I look forward to the Clermont Financial Innovation Workshop - 2024, April 3.

https://www.esc-clermont.fr/en/evenement/cfiw24/

I will give a keynote on ESG violations. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4430217  

I am very happy to be a Visiting Professor at ESADE in Barcelona, Spring semester 2024!

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2024/1/contemporary-issues-in-financial-markets-and-banking2

https://sdh.neu.edu.vn/storage/files/ICAFE-2024%20Invitation.pdf 

https://www.tsfs.tn/keynote-speakers 

https://sestef2023.sciencesconf.org/  

Rankings of academics is subjective.  I would never claim to be first.  But I liked this one because it shows there exists an AI ranking system that generates a result putting me as 1st in the U.S. in finance over the past 5 years!  I never would have guessed.  Given the result, it must be a good ranking system😉!

From: ScholarGPS - News <scholargpsnews@gmail.com>

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Dear Professor Cumming,

Congratulations! You have achieved the ScholarGPS Number 1 ranking in Finance among all academic scholars in the United States. This impressive achievement is based on the scholarly activity in your Discipline over the last five years, and therefore celebrates your recent scholarly contributions. Click on the following link and choose the appropriate options on the left panel to see rankings of other Highly Ranked Scholars in your Discipline for either the lifetime or the last-five-year evaluation period:

Here is the link to the 5-year ranking where ScholarGPS ranks me as 1st among all finance academics in the United States.

Here is the link to the lifetime ranking where ScholarGPS ranks me as 11th among all finance academics in the United States.

ScholarGPS is a California-based company that harnesses artificial intelligence including data mining, machine learning, and other data science techniques to rank over 30 million individual scholars and over 55,000 academic and non-academic institutions worldwide. Rankings are available for All Fields of scholarly endeavor combined; in each of 14 Fields ranging from Medicine to Law to Engineering; in each of 177 Disciplines such as Mechanical Engineering or Chemistry; and in over 350,000 unique Specialties. Institutional Rankings in Fields, Disciplines, and Specialties are based on the rankings and quantity of individual active scholars in each institution who are (i) highly productive (number of publications) and have (ii) generated outstanding work of meaningful impact (number of citations) and excellent quality (h-index).

Please visit: https://scholargps.com/ for more details.

Sincerely,

The ScholarGPS Team 

In November 2022, I was listed by Clarivate as one of top 92 most cited researchers in the world in the Business and Economics Category.

Here is an announcement from FAU about making the top 92!

I have been elected as a Research Member

I will provide a keynote speech at the conference.  https://cryptorc.org/

https://www.is-business.org/

Entrepreneurial Finance Association, Antwerp, July 5-7, 2023

I will provide a keynote speech in the Doctoral and Early Career Colloquium.

Multinational Finance Society, Cyprus, July 2-5, 2023

I will provide a keynote speech on "intersecting market microstructure and corporate finance"

International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Information Security, Xi'an China, May 26-28, 2023

I will provide a keynote speech on cryptocurrencies.

3rd Annual Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference

December 10-11, 2022

Hybrid: Both in person at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida and Virtually

Special Track: Financial Market Misconduct, Featuring and Special Issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance 

International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 5-6, 2022

I presented recent work on "Market Manipulation and Corporate Culture"

The Role of Legal, Political, and Regulatory Institutions in Influencing Accounting and Financial Outcomes 

4th GCAA Summit 2022

November 28-29, 2022

Perth, Australia

Sustainable Financial Innovation Research Centre Annual Conference Sustainability, Climate Change and Financial Innovation 

European Financial Management Special Issue Conference 

Sponsored by The University of Birmingham College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and European Financial Management 

November 25-26, 2022

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting Call for Papers

I spoke at the Turkish Economic Summit in September 2002 in Istanbul

Pics below

Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 50th Anniversary Special Issue 

Call for Papers - Institutions, Governance, and Economic Performance

A Special Section for the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics

This special section welcomes both regular research papers of about 8,000–10,000 words and shorter 4,000-word papers providing original perspectives on key conceptual and empirical research issues related to links between institutions, governance, and economic performance. Contributions are solicited to advance our understanding of the nature, evolution, and impact of national-level institutions, national- and firm-level governance factors, and economic performance, especially by employing innovative sets of data or by suggesting novel use of existing data sources. This Special Section will be part of 2023 events sponsored by Intesa San Paolo for the 50th Anniversary from foundation of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (formerly published as Economia e Politica Industriale).

Timeline

Papers may be submitted at the authors’ earliest convenience and no later than September 30th, 2022

For further details - see here

Florida Finance Conference

Florida Atlantic University

October 7, 222

The Finance Department at Florida Atlantic University of invites you to participate in the Florida Finance Conference on October 7, 2022, in Boca Raton, Florida.  Baolian Wang, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Florida, will be our keynote speaker on the topic of “Stakes and Investor Behaviors”.

The conference will feature approximately 6 papers representing work from participating universities across all areas of finance. We strongly encourage papers from and participation of doctoral students as presenters and discussants. Paper presentations will likely begin around 9:00 am and the conference will conclude by 4:00 pm. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.  A light reception will follow the paper presentations.

Paper Submissions

To submit a paper, please email your paper to sjohan@fau.edu by September 2, 2022.  All submissions must be made electronically in Adobe Acrobat format. Please remove all author identification information from the paper and submit a separate title page with author contact information. Please be sure that the title page identifies any/all doctoral student authors.

Discussants

If you are willing to discuss a paper, please email sjohan@fau.edu with your preferred topic areas.

Attendance RSVP

To get a head count for catering and information on hotels, please RSVP by emailing sjohan@fau.edu. 

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