New Research Agenda: The Role of Generative AI in Financial Modeling

Generative AI is transforming the way theories are written in finance. A central example is my venture capital project “Retail Capital as a Stepping Stone in Venture Capital,” in which I use Claude AI to adapt a mutual fund learning framework (from my forthcoming Journal of Finance paper) to the venture capital setting. Tasks that would typically require months of manual modeling and coding were instead prototyped in days, enabling rapid exploration of new theoretical mechanisms. 

Latest news:

September 21, 2025: The paper Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns is conditionally accepted by the Journal of Finance.

April 15, 2025: The paper Career Concerns, Short-Termism, and Real Options: The Case of Delegated Money Management is conditionally accepted by the Journal of Finance.

Past news:

June 16, 2024: The paper Beyond Performance: Mutual Funds, Non-Alpha Services, and the Value of Financial Advisors receives the Best Paper Award at Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference (FMARC) 2024.

June 4, 2024: The paper A Horizon Based Decomposition of Mutual Fund Value Added using Transactions  is published in the Journal of Finance.

Feb 27, 2023: Ran Xing's research on "Explicit and Implicit Value of High-Turnover Investment Strategies" receives the Hans Dalborg Award.