Current Research in FinTech – Blockchain and Machine Learning
Call for Papers
In recent years, FinTech, or financial technology, has been rapidly developing and reshaping business practices and the financial services industry. This has generated significant interest in advancing academic research in this important area.
The Department of Finance, the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR), and the Institute for Insight at Georgia State University, together with the Review of Financial Studies will jointly host a conference on Current Research in FinTech. The conference will be held on February 8-9, 2019 at Georgia State University Buckhead Center in Atlanta.
We invite submission of theoretical and empirical papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Blockchain technology and business applications: smart contracts, distributed ledger, and consensus mechanisms
- Cryptocurrency: valuation, trading, and settlement systems
- Innovations in financing: initial coin offerings (ICOs), tokens, crowd funding, and market design
- Machine learning methods in financial economics: supervised/unsupervised learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic trading
- Big data analytics: large-scale data, unstructured data (such as texts and images), and forecasting
- Regulatory issues and challenges
The submission deadline is October 1, 2018. Co-sponsorship with the Review of Financial Studies offers authors a dual submission option. The authors may choose to submit to the conference program only, or choose to submit to both the conference and the Review of Financial Studies.
Conference Dates
8-9 February 2019
Friday and Saturday
Conference Registration Coming Soon
Keynote Speaker
Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University)
Location
Georgia State University Buckhead Center.
Call for Papers Submission Deadline
October 1, 2018.
Program Chair
Baozhong Yang
Review of Financial Studies Sponsoring Editor
Wei Jiang
Conference Email:
Simona Abis (Columbia University)
Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
Bruno Biais (Toulouse School of Economics)
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Bruce Carlin (University of California at Los Angeles)
Christian Catalini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Chen (Georgia State University)
Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Will Cong (University of Chicago)
Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
Joseph Engelberg (University of California at San Diego)
Maryam Farboodi (Princeton University)
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)
Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University)
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California)
Lixin Huang (Georgia State University)
Gur Huberman (Columbia University)
Bryan Kelly (Yale University)
Omesh Kini (Georgia State University)
Thorsten Koeppl (Queen’s University)
Shimon Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IDC Herzliya)
Ye Li (Ohio State University)
Tim Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
Katya Malinova (University of Toronto)
Gustavo Manso (University of California at Berkeley)
Narayan Naik (London Business School)
Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University)
Christine Parlour (University of California at Berkeley)
Christopher Parsons (University of Southern California)
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College)
Chip Ryan (Georgia State University)
Ajay Subramanian (Georgia State University)
Kelly Shue (Yale University)
Katrin Tinn (Imperial College)
Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Andrew Wu (University of Michigan)
Yusen Xia (Georgia State University)
Baozhong Yang (Georgia State University)
Vincent Yao (Georgia State University)
Mao Ye (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Xiaoyan Zhang (Purdue University and Tsinghua University)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University at St. Louis)
Haoxiang Zhu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Authors should submit an electronic version of their paper in PDF format no later than October 1, 2018. Paper selection will be finalized by December 1, 2018.
Review of Financial Studies Dual Submission Option
Submissions to the conference can also be submitted to the Review of Financial Studies under its dual review system, with the same submission deadline of October 1, 2018. Authors must indicate on the conference submission website whether they are interested to have their paper considered under this dual review option with the RFS that works as follows:
- There is no charge for submissions under this program.
- Dual submissions will be reviewed by the conference program committee and will be made available for consideration by the sponsoring RFS
- Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at another journal or the RFS, including as a dual-submission at another journal, nor can they be considered for dual submission if previously rejected by the RFS.
- At the discretion of the conference’s sponsoring editor of the RFS, dual submissions will be sent out for a formal referee report. If such a report is sought, then the paper’s author(s) will receive a copy of the RFS reviewer’s report.
- If the sponsoring editors decide to select the paper, authors have time until after the conference to submit their paper to the RFS.
- Papers rejected at any stage of the dual review process are not considered to have been “rejected” at the RFS. This also applies to articles sent out for formal review. Thus authors are permitted to submit a future version of their paper (unchanged, if they wish) to the RFS without prejudice.
- A paper that is being considered under the dual submission option by the conference and the RFS may not be submitted to another journal (or the RFS) until the authors have been notified.
For more details about the dual submission policy of the RFS please see http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/.
Conference Dates
8-9 February 2019
Friday & Saturday
Conference Registration Coming Soon
Keynote Speaker
Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University)
Location
Georgia State University Buckhead Center.
Call for Papers Submission Deadline
October 1, 2018.
Program Chair
Baozhong Yang
Review of Financial Studies Sponsoring Editor
Wei Jiang
Conference Email:
Current Research in FinTech – Blockchain and Machine Learning
Call for Papers
In recent years, FinTech, or financial technology, has been rapidly developing and reshaping business practices and the financial services industry. This has generated significant interest in advancing academic research in this important area.
The Department of Finance, the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR), and the Institute for Insight at Georgia State University, together with the Review of Financial Studies will jointly host a conference on Current Research in FinTech. The conference will be held on February 8-9, 2019 at Georgia State University Buckhead Center in Atlanta.
We invite submission of theoretical and empirical papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Blockchain technology and business applications: smart contracts, distributed ledger, and consensus mechanisms
- Cryptocurrency: valuation, trading, and settlement systems
- Innovations in financing: initial coin offerings (ICOs), tokens, crowd funding, and market design
- Machine learning methods in financial economics: supervised/unsupervised learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic trading
- Big data analytics: large-scale data, unstructured data (such as texts and images), and forecasting
- Regulatory issues and challenges
The submission deadline is October 1, 2018. Co-sponsorship with the Review of Financial Studies offers authors a dual submission option. The authors may choose to submit to the conference program only, or choose to submit to both the conference and the Review of Financial Studies.
Simona Abis (Columbia University)
Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
Bruno Biais (Toulouse School of Economics)
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Bruce Carlin (University of California at Los Angeles)
Christian Catalini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Chen (Georgia State University)
Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
Will Cong (University of Chicago)
Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
Joseph Engelberg (University of California at San Diego)
Maryam Farboodi (Princeton University)
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)
Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University)
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California)
Lixin Huang (Georgia State University)
Gur Huberman (Columbia University)
Bryan Kelly (Yale University)
Omesh Kini (Georgia State University)
Thorsten Koeppl (Queen’s University)
Shimon Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IDC Herzliya)
Ye Li (Ohio State University)
Tim Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
Katya Malinova (University of Toronto)
Gustavo Manso (University of California at Berkeley)
Narayan Naik (London Business School)
Maureen O’Hara (Cornell University)
Christine Parlour (University of California at Berkeley)
Christopher Parsons (University of Southern California)
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College)
Chip Ryan (Georgia State University)
Kelly Shue (Yale University)
Katrin Tinn (Imperial College)
Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Andrew Wu (University of Michigan)
Yusen Xia (Georgia State University)
Baozhong Yang (Georgia State University)
Mao Ye (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Guofu Zhou (Washington University at St. Louis)
Haoxiang Zhu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Authors should submit an electronic version of their paper in PDF format no later than October 1, 2018. Paper selection will be finalized by December 1, 2018.
Review of Financial Studies Dual Submission Option
Submissions to the conference can also be submitted to the Review of Financial Studies under its dual review system, with the same submission deadline of October 1, 2018. Authors must indicate on the conference submission website whether they are interested to have their paper considered under this dual review option with the RFS that works as follows:
- There is no charge for submissions under this program.
- Dual submissions will be reviewed by the conference program committee and will be made available for consideration by the sponsoring RFS
- Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at another journal or the RFS, including as a dual-submission at another journal, nor can they be considered for dual submission if previously rejected by the RFS.
- At the discretion of the conference’s sponsoring editor of the RFS, dual submissions will be sent out for a formal referee report. If such a report is sought, then the paper’s author(s) will receive a copy of the RFS reviewer’s report.
- If the sponsoring editors decide to select the paper, authors have time until after the conference to submit their paper to the RFS.
- Papers rejected at any stage of the dual review process are not considered to have been “rejected” at the RFS. This also applies to articles sent out for formal review. Thus authors are permitted to submit a future version of their paper (unchanged, if they wish) to the RFS without prejudice.
- A paper that is being considered under the dual submission option by the conference and the RFS may not be submitted to another journal (or the RFS) until the authors have been notified.
For more details about the dual submission policy of the RFS please see http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/.
Keynote Speaker : Andrew Karolyi
Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC.
Karolyi currently serves as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He is and has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. He is a recipient of the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Biennial Best Paper Prize (2006), the Fisher College of Business’ Pace Setter Awards for Excellence in Research and Graduate Teaching and Johnson’s Prize for Excellence in Research in 2010.
He joined Johnson in 2009, after teaching for 19 years at the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University. He leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He currently chairs the board of trustees and is past president of the Financial Management Association International and has served as a director of the American Finance Association.
Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University in 1983 and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.
Keynote Speaker : Andrew Karolyi
Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC.
Karolyi currently serves as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He is and has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. He is a recipient of the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Biennial Best Paper Prize (2006), the Fisher College of Business’ Pace Setter Awards for Excellence in Research and Graduate Teaching and Johnson’s Prize for Excellence in Research in 2010.
He joined Johnson in 2009, after teaching for 19 years at the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University. He leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He currently chairs the board of trustees and is past president of the Financial Management Association International and has served as a director of the American Finance Association.
Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University in 1983 and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.