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UCLA Anderson School of Management fosters influential, interdisciplinary scholarship by confronting foundational questions in finance that affect markets, firms, governance and society. The Fink Center for Finance’s seventh annual Conference on Financial Markets invited rigorous debate around academic research that bridges theory and real‑world relevance.
A panel of leading finance scholars discussed the most important unanswered questions in modern finance, examining fundamental challenges to understanding asset pricing, risk, market efficiency, financial intermediation, corporate governance, political economy and the role of government and central banks. The conversation highlighted tensions between theory and practice, public and private markets, and innovation and regulation. Panelists explained how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and decentralized finance may reshape financial research and markets, and how, with greater intellectual risk‑taking, new data and openness to unconventional ideas, the profession can better tackle foundational questions going forward.
The annual conference, hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management, combines theoretical and methodological rigor with timely policy relevance. Anderson’s leadership tenets include directly confronting both the opportunities and dangers of AI in academic scholarship, while fostering critical dialogue on how institutions must adopt ethical standards for evaluation, disclosure, transparency and accountability in an AI‑accelerated research environment.
Panel:
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Jonathan Berk, A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Tyler Muir, Professor of Finance and Faculty Co-Director, Fink Center for Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Moderator: Ivo Welch, Distinguished Professor of Finance and J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
00:00 Introduction
02:37 Panel Discussion
31:17 Audience Q&A
39:31 Closing Remarks
Learn more about the Fink Center’s annual Conference on Financial Markets:
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/fink-center-for-finance/news-and-events/conference-financial-markets
#politicaleconomy #crypto #AI
UCLA Anderson School of Management fosters influential, interdisciplinary scholarship by confronting foundational questions in finance that affect markets, firms, governance and society. The Fink Center for Finance’s seventh annual Conference on Financial Markets invited rigorous debate around academic research that bridges theory and real‑world relevance.
A panel of leading finance scholars discussed the most important unanswered questions in modern finance, examining fundamental challenges to understanding asset pricing, risk, market efficiency, financial intermediation, corporate governance, political economy and the role of government and central banks. The conversation highlighted tensions between theory and practice, public and private markets, and innovation and regulation. Panelists explained how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and decentralized finance may reshape financial research and markets, and how, with greater intellectual risk‑taking, new data and openness to unconventional ideas, the profession can better tackle foundational questions going forward.
The annual conference, hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management, combines theoretical and methodological rigor with timely policy relevance. Anderson’s leadership tenets include directly confronting both the opportunities and dangers of AI in academic scholarship, while fostering critical dialogue on how institutions must adopt ethical standards for evaluation, disclosure, transparency and accountability in an AI‑accelerated research environment.
Panel:
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Jonathan Berk, A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Tyler Muir, Professor of Finance and Faculty Co-Director, Fink Center for Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Moderator: Ivo Welch, Distinguished Professor of Finance and J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
00:00 Introduction
02:37 Panel Discussion
31:17 Audience Q&A
39:31 Closing Remarks
Learn more about the Fink Center’s annual Conference on Financial Markets:
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/fink-center-for-finance/news-and-events/conference-financial-markets
#politicaleconomy #crypto #AI
