Wednesday, February 2021
PER Live Series: “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy”
The PER Live Series is a recurring set of discussions involving finance and business thought leaders. Topics address the important economic issues of our time. This event was livestreamed via the Economics Department’s YouTube channel. A direct link to our event video can be found here. Closed captions and a transcript are also available. Learn more about other PER Live Series Events. Venue and Time: This event took place via Zoom meeting on Wednesday, February 24th from 1:00PM to 2:00PM (EST). A Zoom invitation…
Find out more »Thursday, March 2021
Nowcasting Inflation
Venue and Time: This event will take place as a Zoom webinar on Thursday, March 25th from 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EST). Registration is required. Nowcasting Inflation is co-sponsored by Columbia University's Program for Economic Research and Capital Fund Management (CFM) as part of the CFM-PER Alternative Data Initiative. This event was livestreamed via the Economics Department’s YouTube channel. A direct link to our event video can be found here. Closed captions and a transcript are available. About: Trillions of dollars of stimulus by both…
Find out more »Thursday, April 2021
Dynamic Matching and Queueing Workshop
Day 1 Video Recap of Conference: Day 2 Video Recap of Conference: Venue and Time: This event was held as a Zoom webinar on Thursday, April 29th from 9:00 AM to 2:15 PM (EST) and Friday, April 30th from 9:00 AM to 2:15 PM (EST). Program: Thursday, April 29th 9:00 a.m. (EST): "Dynamic Model of Matching" Pauline Corblet (Science Po), Jeremy Fox (Rice), Alfred Galichon (NYU) Read the audience Q&A for this presentation. 10:00 a.m. (EST): "The Value of…
Find out more »Friday, June 2021
CFM-Columbia PER Ph.D. Student Workshop on Alternative Datasets
Venue and Time: This event will be a Zoom meeting on Friday, June 4th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (EST). Registration is required, sign up to attend here. Program: 9:00 a.m.: Introductions 9:02 a.m.: "Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare" Sang Hoon Kong (Columbia) Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) 9:30 a.m.: “A Unified Framework for Clustering with Different Data Sets and Applications” Jimmy Qin (Columbia) Yiwen Shen (Columbia) Muye Wang (Columbia) 10:00 a.m.: Final Comments Registration: This event…
Find out more »Rise of the Retail Investor: Implications for Policy and Markets
The confluence of social media and technology has led to a resurgence of retail investor trading activity in financial markets, whether it is speculation on meme stocks like Gamestop or cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin. The goal of this event is to explore the use of big data regarding retail investor order flows to understand the implications of this resurgence for financial markets and regulators. This panel is part of a series of events on the economic and financial applications of alternative…
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