Generative AI in Finance

John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in cooperation with the Desjardins Centre for Innovation and Financing is organizing the Paper Development Workshop together with Carol Alexander from University of Sussex, Lars Hornuf from TU Dresden and Denis Schweizer and Juliane Proelss from Concordia University. We invite interested scholars to apply to present and discuss their current research on Generative AI in Finance. The conference will take place in person October 23 and 24, 2024 in Montréal

The aim of the paper development workshop is to feature articles at the forefront of Generative AI research across a broad spectrum of interest including, but not limited to, corporate finance, fintech, digital finance, asset pricing, financial stability, banking, risk management, portfolio management, behavioral finance, personal finance, and real estate — all within the context of viable existing or potential future applications of Generative AI.

The conference is associated with a Special Issue in the Journal of Banking and Finance on Generative AI in Finance and aims to provide authors with valuable insights from the editorial team prior to submission. Acceptance for presentation at the Paper Development Workshop is not a prerequisite for submission to the Special Issue and in no way guarantees acceptance to the Special Issue.

Keynote Speaker:  Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management)               

Bryan Kelly is the Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Associate Director of SOM’s International Center for Finance, and is the head of machine learning at AQR Capital Management, LLC.

Professor Kelly’s primary research fields are asset pricing and financial econometrics. He is interested in issues related to financial machine learning; volatility, tail risk, and correlation modeling in financial markets; banking sector systemic risk; financial intermediation; and financial networks. His papers in these areas have been published in American Economic Review,  Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He is co-editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics and associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics.

Before joining Yale, Kelly was a tenured professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago, a master’s degree in economics from University of California San Diego, and a PhD in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Kelly worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley prior to pursuing his PhD.

Program Committee:

• Carol Alexander (University of Sussex)
• Daniel Blaseg (ESADE Business School)
• Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University)
• Christian Fieberg (Hochschule Bremen)
• Lars Hornuf (Dresden University of Technology)
• Fabian Hollstein (Universität des Saarlandes)
• Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University)
• Costas Lambrinoudakis (Leeds University Business School)
• Paul P. Momtaz (TUM School of Management)
• Denis Schweizer (Concordia University)
• Michael Weber (University of Chicago)
• Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)
• Adam Zaremba (Montpellier Business School)
• Guofu Zhou (Olin Business School)

Location Organizer: Denis Schweizer and Juliane Proelss