2nd Annual News and Finance Conference
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Reception to follow
Faculty House, 2nd Floor, 64 Morningside Drive (at 116th Street) Columbia University, New York City, Click here for directions and parking
Link to Conference Write-Up: "How Does News Coverage Affect the World of Finance?"
Conference Brief
Financial economists have long been interested in how markets incorporate information. In the last decade, the confluence of improved computational tools and data availability for text analysis have led to new research methods and many important insights into how markets respond to the news media. But how does information become news in the first place? How do choices made by journalists shape the news to which markets react?
Organized by the News and Finance Initiative of Columbia Business School’s Program for Financial Studies and its faculty directors Paul Glasserman, Harry Mamaysky, and Paul Tetlock around their current research, this major conference will bring together an unprecedented group of interdisciplinary leaders from across academia, business, government, and the media to explore new frontiers in the study of the dissemination of news and its influence on markets. The event is expected to draw 200 leaders from across these sectors, building upon the successful inaugural News and Finance conference of March 2016.
The News and Finance Initiative of the Program for Financial Studies gratefully acknowledges its Lead Industry Sponsors:
its Affiliate Industry Sponsor:
as well as the following conference sponsors:
The Program for Financial Studies gratefully acknowledges Thomson Reuters for generously providing access to data sets that have enabled the research upon which the News and Finance initiative has been built.
For information regarding the conference, contact Melina Robbana, Program Director of the Program for Financial Studies, at 212-851-9473 or [email protected].
For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Elena Piercy, Senior Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, at 212-854-6953 or [email protected].
Agenda
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Time |
Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00am |
Registration and light breakfast Introductory remarks by: Harry Mamaysky, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, and Director of the News and Finance Initiative, Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School Thomas F. Coleman, Chief Research Officer, Global Risk Institute |
| 9:00-9:40 | Zhi Da, Professor of Finance, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame presenting: "Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds" |
| 9:40-10:20 |
Ricardo Correa, PhD "06 GSAS, Chief, International Financial Stability Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System presenting: "Communicating Financial Stability Sentiment" |
| 10:20-10:35 | Break |
| 10:35-11:15 | Leif Anders Thorsrud, Special Advisor, Norges Bank presenting: "The Value of News" |
| 11:20-12:20pm |
Journalist Panel: Media Action or Reaction Moderator: William S. Grueskin, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University's School of Journalism Panelists: |
| 12:20-1:30pm | Lunch and Keynote: Morgan Downey, CEO of Money.net |
| 1:30-2:10 |
Diego Garcia, Burridge Endowed Chair in Finance, Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado Boulder presenting: "Kinks of Financial Journalism" |
| 2:10-2:50 |
Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions and Faculty Director of the Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School presenting: "How News and its Context Drive Risk and Returns around the World" |
| 2:50-3:05 | Break |
| 3:05-3:45 |
Alexander Hillert, House of Finance Professor of Sustainable Asset Management, Goethe University, Frankfurt presenting: "The Value of Visibility" |
| 3:50-4:50 |
Industry Panel Moderator: Wesley Chan, PhD, Senior Vice President, Acadian Asset Management Panelists: |
| 4:50-5:00 | Closing remarks by Paul Glasserman, Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations, and Director of the Risk Management Initiative, Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School |
| 5:00-6:00 | Reception |
Conference Participants
Keynote Speaker
Morgan Downey, Chief Executive Officer, Money.net
Academic Presenters
Charles W. Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Faculty Director of the Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School
Ricardo Correa, PhD '06 GSAS, Chief, International Financial Stability Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Zhi Da, Professor of Finance, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Diego Garcia, Burridge Endowed Chair in Finance, Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado Boulder
Alexander Hillert, House of Finance Professor of Sustainable Asset Management, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Leif Anders Thorsrud, Special Advisor, Norges Bank
Distinguished Journalists
John Authers, Senior Investment Commentator and “Long View” Columnist, Financial Times
William S. Grueskin, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University’s School of Journalism
Steve Liesman, Senior Economics Reporter, CNBC
Ellen Pollock, Former Editor in Chief, Bloomberg Businessweek
Gregory Zuckerman, Special Writer, Wall Street Journal
Business Leaders
Wesley Chan, PhD, Senior Vice President, Acadian Asset Management
Graham Giller, PhD, Chief Data Science Officer, JPMorgan Corporate Investment Bank
Angus Lund, Global Head of AlphaWise, Morgan Stanley & Co.
Sameena Shah, PhD, Director of Research, Thomson Reuters
Ben Wellington, Managing Director, Two Sigma
Conference Organizers
Thomas F. Coleman, Chief Research Officer, Global Risk Institute
Paul Glasserman, Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations; Director of the Risk Management Initiative, Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School
Harry Mamaysky, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business; Director of News and Finance Initiative in the Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School
Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business; Assistant Director of the News and Finance Initiative, Program for Financial Studies, Columbia Business School
