My new book is out soon! Everything about ChatGPT and how to use it in finance!

The Predictive Edge: Outsmart the Market using Generative AI and ChatGPT in Financial Forecasting

Assistant professor of Finance, University of Florida

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Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

BA., MA. in Economics and Financial Management from ITAM

My research covers topics in Asset Pricing, Machine Learning and Textual Analysis.

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Working papers

What If Option Closing Prices Were Trustworthy? A Machine Learning Approach New!
joint with Mahendrarajah Nimalendran and Matthew Son
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Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models New!
joint with Yuehua Tang
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Follow the Pipeline: Anticipatory Effects of Proposed Regulations New!
joint with Suzanne Chang and Joseph Kalmenovitz
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Peer-Reviewed Theory Does Not Help Predict the Cross-section of Stock Returns New!
joint with Andrew Y. Chen and Tom Zimmerman
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Textual Analysis of Short-seller Research Reports, Stock Prices, and Real Investment
joint with Jules H. van Binsbergen and Xiao Han
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Do Common Factors Really Explain the Cross-Section of Stock Returns?
joint with Nikolai Roussanov
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Demand-Driven Risk and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
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Risk Factors That Matter: Textual Analysis of Risk Disclosures for the Cross-Section of Returns (Revise and Resubmit)
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Published Papers

Man vs. Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and
Conditional Biases
, The Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
joint with Jules H. van Binsbergen and Xiao Han
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Why Do Managers Disclose Risks Accurately? Textual Analysis, Disclosures, and
Risk Exposures
, Economic Letters, Volume 204, July 2021
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Other Research

Non-Standard Errors, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
as part of the #fincap project
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CS Research

PIXIU: A Large Language Model, Instruction Data and Evaluation Benchmark for Finance
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Awards and honors

  • Jacobs Levy Center Research Paper Prize for Outstanding Paper, 2022
  • Best Paper Award: Invesco IQS Factor Investing Prize, 2021
  • The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Grant, 2020
  • Jacobs Levy Center Research Paper Prize for Best Paper, 2019
  • WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, 2019
  • Finalist, BlackRock’s Applied Research Award
  • Macro-Finance Society Ph.D. Student Award, 2019
  • Irwin Friend Doctoral Fellowship in Finance, Wharton, 2019
  • Best Paper, European Investment Forum Research Prize, Cambridge, 2019
  • Best Paper in the Investment Track, Baltimore Area Finance Conference, 2019
  • Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center Research Grant, Wharton, 2019
  • Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Grant, Wharton, 2019
  • The Mack Institute for Innovation Management Research Grant, 2019
  • George James Term Fund Travel Award, Wharton, 2019
  • Jacob Levy Fellowship, Wharton, 2019
  • Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Grant, Wharton, 2018
  • The Mack Institute for Innovation Management Research Grant, 2018
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