9th Annual Conference on Alternative Finance
8 Jul 2024
08:00 -17:45
Times are shown in local time
Open to: By invitation only
Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Overview
The conference is hosted by the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Eight high-quality academic papers have been selected for presentation, covering a wide range of research topics including blockchain systems, policy and regulation, environmental action, AI and social media predictions.
Times and venues
- Academic conference: 08:00-17:45, Cambridge Judge Business School
- Drinks reception: 18:00, King’s College
- Annual dinner: 19:00, King’s College
The CCAF annual conference is made possible with the generous support of Invesco.
Provisional programme
- Welcome
- Session 1: Access and Scalability in Blockchain Systems
- Session 2: Fintech and Finance: Policy and Regulation Insights
- Session 3: Finance and Environmental Action
- Session 4: AI insights and Social Media predictions
- 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
Access and Scalability in Blockchain Systems
08:30 – 09:15
Towards anonymous undercollateralized loans
- Tim Dong, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee
09:15 – 10:00
Blockchain scaling and liquidity concentration on decentralized exchanges
- Basile Caparros, ChainSolid
- Amit Chaudhary, Warwick Business School, Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology
- Olga Klein, Warwick Business School, Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology
10:00 – 10:15
Coffee break
Session 2
Fintech and Finance: Policy and Regulation Insights
10:15 – 11:00
The disciplining effect of bank supervision: evidence from suptech
- Hans Degryse, KU Leuven and CEPR
- Cédric Huylebroek, KU Leuven and FWO
- Bernardus Van Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil and Bank for International Settlements
11:00 – 11:45
The fintech lending channel of monetary policy
- Lavinia Franco, Bayes Business School
11:45 – 13:00
Walk around Cambridge
13:00 – 13:45
Lunch
Session 3
Finance and Environmental Action
13:45 – 14:30
Pricing pollution: asset-pricing implications of the EU emissions trading system
- Joop Huij, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Robeco Indices
- Dries Laurs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Robeco Indices
- Philip Stork, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Remco C.J. Zwinkels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute
14:30 – 15:15
Carbon offsets: decarbonization or transition-washing
- Sehoon Kim, University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
- Tao Li, University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
- Yanbin Wu, University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee break
Session 4
AI insights and Social Media predictions
15:30 – 16:15
Predicting startup outcomes with machine learning
- Luiz Bissoto, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute
16:15 – 17:00
Does social media help mitigate hurdles for capitalizing expenditures related to internally developed intangibles?
- Vicki Wei Tang, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
- Atul Singh, Ball State University
Machine learning
17:00 – 17:45
Keynote speech
- Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University
Campbell R. Harvey is 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. A Fellow of the American Finance Association, he served as its President in 2016. A multi award-winning writer, he has published over 150 scholarly articles on topics spanning investment finance, emerging markets, corporate finance, behavioural finance, financial econometrics, decentralised finance and computer science. Over the past eight years, Professor Harvey has taught Innovation and Cryptoventures at Duke University and an elective focused on advanced investment topics: Global Asset Allocation. His book ‘DeFi and the Future of Finance’ is published by John Wiley and Sons (2021).
17:45
Conference closes
18:00
Drinks reception, King’s College
19:00