Registration Link for the Conference: https://www.conftool.com/gsu-ai-fintech-2025
Time allotment: 40 minutes per talk, 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussant, remaining time for audience questions.
7:45am–8:15am Breakfast (provided)
8:15am–8:30am Welcome and Administrative Announcements
Session I 8:30 am-10:30 am
Session Chair: Omesh Kini
Privacy-Enhanced Payment Systems
Authors: Agostino Capponi (Columbia), Michael Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), and Brian Zhu (Columbia)
Discussant: William Mann (Emory)
An Economic Model of the L1-L2 Interaction
Authors: Campbell Harvey (Duke), Fahad Saleh (Florida), Ruslan Sverchkov (Warwick)
Discussant: Andreas Park (Toronto)
Authors: Ji Huang (CUHK)
Discussant: TBD
10:30am –11:00am Coffee Break
Session II 11:00 am-12:20 am
Session Chair: Mark Chen
Modernizing Credit Access to Younger Entrepreneurs: From FICO to Cash Flow
Authors: Christopher M. Hair (Brigham Young), Sabrina T Howell (Harvard), Mark J Johnson (Brigham Young), Siena Matsumoto (NYU)
Discussant: Sophia Xue (GSU)
The Private Value of Open-Source Innovation
Authors: Logan Emery (Erasmus), Chan Lim (Buffalo), Shiwei Ye (Erasmus)
Discussant: Abhinav Gupta (UNC)
12:20pm–12:50pm Lunch (provided)
12:50–1:35pm Keynote Speech
Session III 1:50 pm – 3:50 pm
Session Chair: Vikas Agarwal
AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents
Authors: Wei Jiang (Emory), Junyoung Park (Auburn), Rachel J Xiao (Fordham), Shen Zhang (Fordham)
Discussant: Tania Babina (Maryland)
Artificial Intelligence and the Law of One Price: Evidence from the Chinese A-H Premium
Authors: Zhi Da (Notre Dame), Xinyi Peng (SWUFE), Yongxin Xu (Monash), Gaoping Zheng (RMIT)
Discussant: Junbo Wang (LSU)
Authors: Bo Bian (UBC), Qiushi Huang (SAIF), Ye Li (UWashington), Huan Tang (Wharton)
Discussant: Wei Jiang (Emory)
3:50pm–4:20pm Coffee Break
Session IV 4:20 pm – 5:40 pm
Session Chair: Harley Ryan
The Pricing and Economic Impact of Legal Risk
Authors: Dean Ryu (Oxford)
Discussant: Kuntara Pukthuanthong (Missouri)
Can a Shareholder Focus Create Value for all Stakeholders?
Authors: John Ampong (South Carolina), Matthew Souther (South Carolina)
Discussant: Tengfei Zhang (Rutgers)
6:00pm–6:45pm Reception (invited guests only)
6:45pm–7:00pm Welcome Speech
7:00pm–8:30pm Dinner (invited guests only)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
8:00am–8:30am Breakfast (provided)
Session Chair: Sophia Xue
Session V 8:30 am-10:30 am
Wisdom or Whims? Decoding the Language of Retail Trading with Social Media and AI
Authors: Shuaiyu Chen (UVA), Lin Peng (Baruch), Dexin Zhou (Baruch)
Discussant: Jinfei Sheng (UC Irvine)
AI as Decision-Maker: Ethics and Risk Preferences of LLMs
Authors: Shumiao Ouyang (Oxford), Hayong Yun(MSU), Xingjian Zheng (SAIF)
Discussant: Pietro Bini (Boston)
The Memorization Problem: Can We Trust LLMs' Economic Forecasts?
Authors: Alejandro Lopez-Lira (Florida), Yuehua Tang (Florida), Mingyin Zhu (Florida)
Discussant: Luka Vulicevic (UCSD)
10:30am–11:00am Coffee Break
Session VI 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
Session Chair: Scott Murray
Is There Wisdom Among the DAO Crowd? Evidence from Vote Delegation
Authors: Chuxuan Fan (CUHK SZ), Tao Shu (CUHK), Fei Xie (Delaware)
Discussant: Tao Li (Florida)
Holding the Bag: Depositor Reactions to a Crypto "Bank" Collapse
Authors: Ian Appel (UVA), Jillian Grennan (Emory), Josh White (Vanderbilt), Sean Wilkoff (Nevada)
Discussant: Yukun Liu (Rochester)
12:20pm–1:00pm Lunch (provided)
1:00pm –1:30pm Award Ceremony for Best Paper and Best Discussant Awards