8th Annual Conference on Alternative Finance (2023)
10 Jul 2023
08:00 -19:00
Open to: All
Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
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 fintech, digital payments, machine learning, and household finance.
Times and venues
- Academic conference: 08:00-17:45, Cambridge Judge Business School
- Drinks reception: 18:00, The Old Kitchen, Trinity College
- Annual dinner: 19:00, The Old Kitchen, Trinity College
The CCAF annual conference is made possible with the generous support of Invesco.
Programme
- Welcome
- Session 1: Fintech
- Session 2: Digital payments
- Session 3: Machine learning
- Session 4: Household finance
- Keynote and conclusion
Welcome
08:00 – 08:25
Registration & arrival refreshments
08:25 – 08:30
Welcome & Opening remarks
- Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, Co-founder and Academic Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
- Invesco
Session 1
Fintech
08:30 – 09:15
What Drives Racial Minorities to Use Fintech Lending?
- Celine Yue Fei, Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
09:15 – 10:00
Cyber Income Inequality
- Li Liao, Tsinghua University
- Chen Lin, Department of Economics, The University of Hong Kong
- Lu Liu, Tsinghua University
- Xincheng Wang, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
- Yang You, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
10:00 – 10:15
Break
Session 2
Digital payments
10:15 – 11:00
Can Cashless Payments Spur Economic Growth?
- Tamanna Singh Dubey, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
- Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
11:00 – 11:45
Cashless Payment and Financial Inclusion
- Shumiao Ouyang, Princeton University
11:45 – 13:00
Walk around Cambridge
13:00 – 13:45
Lunch
Session 3
Machine learning
13:45 – 14:30
Machine Traders, Human Behavior, and Model (Mis)Specification
- Ahmed Guecioueur, INSEAD
14:30 – 15:15
Does FinTech Innovation Improve Traditional Banks’ Efficiency and Risk Measures? A New Methodology and New Machine-Learning-Based Evidence from Patent Filings
- Libing Fang, School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University
- Xindan Li, School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University
- Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles
- Ke Zhang, School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee break
Session 4
Household finance
15:30 – 16:15
Insufficient Sleep and Intra-Day Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from Online Lending
- Paul G. Freed, University of South Carolina
16:15 – 17:00
The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment
- Darren Aiello, Brigham Young University
- Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and NBER
- Tetyana Balyuk, Emory University Goizueta Business School
- Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School and NBER
- Mark J. Johnson, Brigham Young University
- Jason Kotter, Brigham Young University
- Emily Williams, Harvard Business School
Machine learning
17:00 – 17:45
Keynote speech
- Christine A. Parlour, Berkeley Haas
Christine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking. Her current work focuses on changes in the payments system and the effects on bank balance sheets. She has written for major finance and economics journals. She has been on the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and is currently on the steering committee for the New Special Study of Securities Markets. Expertise and Research Interests: Fintech, Digital Payments, Credit Markets, Finance, Microstructure, Banking.
17:45
Conference closes
18:00
Drinks reception, The Old Kitchen, Trinity College
19:00