7th Future of Financial Information Conference

Conference dates

12 May 2025 - 13 May 2025

Location

INSEAD, France

Description

Submission deadline: 19 November 2024, 23:59 PST
Submit your paper: https://www.conftool.net/futfininfo2025
Conference website: www.futfin.info/conference/

The 7th Future of Financial Information Conference is set to take place at the scenic INSEAD Europe Campus in Fontainebleau, France on 12/13 May 2025. We are aiming for a primarily in-person meeting, with speakers, discussants and session chairs in particular attending on site. Other participants will have the option to attend remotely and we will do our best to provide them with an interactive experience.


CONFERENCE AGENDA:
From satellite images to natural language processing, the way investors and financial intermediaries source, process, trade on or use information is constantly evolving. The aim of this conference is to understand the ever-changing nature of financial information and its consequences for market efficiency.

We welcome all theoretical and empirical papers exploring new and perhaps unexpected sources of information, as well as developing novel tools to turn raw data into value-relevant insights. Sceptical takes, highlighting the trade-offs involved in the use of big data, machine learning algorithms and the continuing hardening of information are also welcome.

Past programs: https://www.futfin.info/past-editions/


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
We are very happy to welcome our distinguished speakers, who are experts on the timely topics of the economics of data and innovation, and how they relate to financial markets. We look forward to learning from them about exciting developments in these areas.

Laura VELDKAMP, Columbia University
Alexander LJUNGQVIST, Stockholm School of Economics

Find out more about our speakers in the short bios below.


FOR PHD STUDENTS
The conference has a track record of supporting PhD students, who are the future of our profession. We are happy to continue with two initiatives aimed at encouraging PhD students to submit and participate.

Best PhD Student Paper Award - all papers submitted by PhD students are eligible, though papers authored exclusively by PhD students may be given preference in the selection process. The winning paper will gain automatic acceptance to the conference program as well as a financial reward of $1000.

PhD Student Travel Grants - several grants, worth up to $500 each, will be awarded to PhD Students, who would otherwise not be able to cover the costs of attending the conference. Presenting or discussing a paper is not a requirement for receiving a travel grant.


PAPER SUBMISSION:
Submit your paper at: https://www.conftool.net/futfininfo2025 no later than 19 November 2024, 23:59 PST. Authors of selected papers will be notified by early February. There is a submission fee of 45 USD. The fee is waived for submitting authors currently enrolled in a PhD program.

Program selection will follow a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, all submissions will be screened by members of the reviewer team. In the second stage, shortlisted papers will be additionally evaluated by members of the program committee. We expect to accept around 20 papers for presentation and an additional 6-7 for the poster session. Please indicate during submission whether you would like your paper to be considered also for the poster session.


DUAL SUBMISSION OPTION:
Submissions to the conference can also be submitted to the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) under the dual-review system by the same deadline of 19 November 2024, 23:59 PST, with no additional fee. Authors must indicate if they are interested in having their papers considered under this dual-review option with the JFQA. Dual submissions will be reviewed by the conference organizers and will be made available for consideration by the JFQA. Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at another journal or the JFQA, nor can they be considered for dual submission if previously rejected by the JFQA. At the discretion of the JFQA, a small number of dual submissions will be sent out for a formal referee report. Papers rejected at any stage of the dual-review process are not considered to have been “rejected” at the JFQA. Thus, authors are permitted to submit a future version of their paper to the JFQA without prejudice. Papers submitted under the dual-submission process may not be submitted to another journal (or the JFQA) until the author has been notified of the outcome of the dual-submission process. Note that the selection process for the JFQA and the conference program are independent of each other.


PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Michał Dzieliński, Stockholm Business School
Olivier Dessaint, INSEAD

REVIEWER TEAM:
Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
Jérôme Dugast, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Björn Hagströmer, Stockholm Business School
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang, NTU Singapore
Petri Jylhä, Aalto University
Alejandro Lopez-Lira, University of Florida
Roxana Mihet, University of Lausanne
Tamara Nefedova, ESCP Business School
Marina Niessner, Indiana University
Lars Nordén, Stockholm Business School
Marcus Painter, Saint Louis University
Kuntara Pukthuanthong, University of Missouri
Alberto Rossi, Georgetown University
Jinfei Sheng, University of California Irvine
Abalfazl Zareei, Stockholm Business School

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Lauren Cohen, Harvard University
Jean-Edouard Colliard, HEC Paris
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
Maryam Farboodi, MIT
Laurent Fresard, USI
Clifton Green, Emory University
David Hirshleifer, University of Southern California
Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Ryan Israelsen, Michigan State University
Markus Leippold, University of Zurich
Tim Loughran, University of Notre Dame
Harry Mamaysky, Columbia University
Lin Peng, Baruch College
Joël Peress, INSEAD
Mitchell Petersen, Northwestern University
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Federal Reserve Board
Stefan Voigt, University of Copenhagen
Alexander Wagner, University of Zurich
Michael Weber, University of Chicago
Liyan Yang, University of Toronto


KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOS:

Laura VELDKAMP is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Her research examines how investors’ or firms’ use of data and AI affect consumers, the macroeconomy, markups, economic measurement and financial valuations. She is an author of two textbooks: Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance, and The Data Economy: Tools and Applications (forthcoming), both with Princeton University Press. She has also published extensively on these topics in leading peer-reviewed journals in finance and economics, including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and Journal of Economic Theory. Laura serves on the American Economic Association’s awards committee and co-chairs the program committee for the annual conference of the Society for Financial Studies. Her accomplishments have earned her recognition as a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, the Finance Theory Group, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. In the public sphere, she is an economic advisor for the New York Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Alexander LJUNGQVIST is the Stefan Persson Family Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. His recent research interests focus on the role of capital markets in cushioning the adverse effects of disruptive innovations. Previously, he has published in leading peer-reviewed journals in finance, economics and accounting, including Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research on topics spanning corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate taxation, investment banking, IPOs, entrepreneurial finance, private equity, venture capital, asset pricing, market microstructure, innovation, patents, and labor economics. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Founder and Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research, a Fellow of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm (IFN), a Co-Founder of the Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics (NICE), and a former Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In the public sphere, he serves on the Board of Directors of AP6, a Swedish public pension fund focusing on investments in venture capital and private equity. He holds a PhD in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University.

CONTACT:
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The program and organizational information will be successively published on the conference website: www.futfin.info/conference/