5th Annual Conference on Alternative Finance (2020)
29 Jun 2020
12:00 -15:00
30 Jun 2020
12:00 -15:00
1 Jul 2020
12:00 -15:00
GMT +1
Open to: All
Online
(where applicable, further details sent upon registration)
Overview
The conference is hosted by the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Eight high-quality academic papers have been selected for presentation, covering a wide range of research topics including crowdfunding, marketplace lending, cryptoassets, blockchain and social issues in alternative finance. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Campbell Harvey, Duke University.
Programme
Welcome
29 June
Welcome
- Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, Academic Director and Co-founder, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
29 June
Opening remarks
- Henning Stein, Invesco
Dr Henning Stein is the Global Head of Thought Leadership for Invesco. Henning and his team of strategists and researchers provide valuable insight and perspectives to the institutional investor and financial advisor global communities. Henning joined Invesco in 2016 from DWS where he led a global research initiative working together with the CIO office and management teams in the wealth and asset management businesses in addition to his role as Head of EMEA Marketing for the active management business. He also served on the Board of Deutsche Bank Switzerland’s pension fund and on its Investment Committee. He has 22 years of experience, including senior executive, business development and consulting roles, across pension funds, platforms, academia, asset management, and insurance working with boards and CEOs. He currently serves as a fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Session 1
Cryptoassets
29 June
Collectibles Tokenization & Optimal Security Design
- Blair Vorsartz, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
29 June
What Keeps Stable Coins Stable?
- Ganesh Viswanath Natraj, Warwick Business School and Richard Lyons, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and NBER
29 June
Keynote speech (runs 14:00-15:00 GMT+1)
- Campbell Harvey, Duke University
Professor Campbell Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is known as the economist who discovered a crucial bellwether of coming recessions: the inverted yield curve. He served as President of the American Finance Association in 2016. He has received eight Graham and Dodd Awards/Scrolls for excellence in financial writing from the CFA Institute. Professor Harvey is a Founding Director of the Duke-CFO Survey, a widely watched quarterly survey polls over 1,500 CFOs worldwide. His current teaching includes two blockchain-themed courses: “Innovation & Cryptoventures” and “Tech Driven Transformation of Business”.
Session 2
Big data and behavioural finance
30 June
Financial Inclusion and Alternate Credit Scoring for the Millennials: Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in Fintech
- Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore, Shashwat Aloky, Indian School of Business, Pulak Ghoshz, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Sudip Gupta, Fordham University
30 June
Human vs. Machine: Underwriting Decisions in Finance
- Mark Jansen, University of Utah, Eccles School of Business, Hieu Nguyen, University of Utah, Eccles School of Business
- Amin Shams, Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
30 June
Attention Triggers and Investors’ Risk Taking
- Marc Arnold, University of St. Gallen, Matthias Pelster, Paderborn University, and Marti Subrahmanyam, Stern School of Business, New York University
Session 3
Crowdfunding
1 July
With a Little Help from Friends: Strategic Financing and the Crowd
- Sudipto Dasgupta, CUHK Business School, Tingting Fan, CUHK Business School, Yiwei Li, Lingnan University
- Yizhou Xiao, CUHK Business School
1 July
Are All Heuristics Created Equal? Evidence from P2P Investments
- Maggie Rong Hu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Xiaoyang Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yang Shi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
- Michael Xiaoquan Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1 July
Consumers as Financiers: Consumer Surplus, Crowdfunding, and Initial Coin Offerings
- Mina Lee, Olin Business School, Washington University and Christine Parlour, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business