Finance Research Event – Professor Arman Eshraghi

Date: 25 September 2024

Time: 14:00 – 16:30

Location: NUBS.2.03

Speaker: Professor Arman Eshraghi, Cardiff Business School.

Arman Eshraghi holds the Chair of Finance and Investment at Cardiff Business School. He is a Shimomura Fellow of the Development Bank of Japan, Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and the Centre for Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at UCL. At Cardiff, Arman directs the Fintech Research Group, and serves as Deputy Head of Section for Research, Impact and Innovation. Arman’s academic research spans finance and accounting with broad interests including investment management, behavioural finance, financial technology, corporate governance, and critical accounting.

Professor Eshraghi actively contributes to editing finance journals as Co-Editor of International Review of Economics and Finance, Senior Editor of Finance Research Letters and the Global Finance Journal, and Special Issue Co-Editor of the European Journal of Finance.

Schedule

Meet Colleagues from 14:00 – tea/coffee

Research Seminar:  Technology Hype and Financial Markets

Time:  14:30-15:30

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Technology Hype and Financial Markets

Abstract:

Examining two decades of market returns, we show investors ‘gamble’ more when the quality of political signals declines. As political information becomes more ambiguous, investors trade more lottery-type (low-priced, high-volatility, high-skewness) stocks in the hope of hitting the investment ‘jackpot’. In parallel, they trade fewer non-lottery-type stocks. This trading volume differential between top and bottom deciles of lottery-type investors is statistically and economically significant in number and dollar volume. Our findings are robust after controlling for economic policy uncertainty, VIX, and macroeconomic variables, and after including other measures of lottery stocks, political signal quality, and controls for federal lottery jackpots.

 

ECR/PGR Development Event – Editorial Insights

Time: 15:30-16:30

If you would like to attend, please register using the following link: ECR/PGR Development Event – editorial insights

Abstract:

The editorial session will discuss pathways to publication, crafting research papers etc. and include an informal Q&A. Professor Eshraghi will draw discuss his extensive experience as editor and associate editor at a range of finance journals, including International Review of Economics and Finance, European Journal of Finance, Finance Research Letters, among others.