MSGF Online Seminar - Alternative Data: Can Technology Make Us Less Reliant on the Government for Macro-economic News?
Unlike private entities, governments can acquire information spanning entire populations, making them a unique source of macro news.
In this seminar, Professor Abhiroop Mukherjee will use data on crude oil futures to show that recent advances in satellite imagery can reduce this reliance on the state. Also, the identification strategy exploits variation in local cloud cover over a handful of supply chain bottlenecks - key to oil inventory predictions - as a series of random shocks to satellite observability.
Speaker(s)
Speaker
| Professor Abhiroop Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Finance at HKUST. He joined HKUST in 2010 after receiving his PhD in Economics from Yale University, where he worked under the supervision of Professors Nicholas Barberis, Andrew Metrick, and Robert Shiller (Nobel Laureate, 2013). Professor Mukherjee studies issues related to behavioral and institutional finance, and his research has been published in all of the three top academic journals in finance. Professor Mukherjee has received recognition for both teaching and research, and some of his work has been used in applied settings by Investment Funds, Central Banks and Policy Think Tanks, both in Asia and in the U.S. |
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Schedule (Hong Kong time)
| 10:30 | Registration |
| 10:45 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 10:55 | Presentation |
| 11:45 | Q & A |
| 12:00 | End |
Alumni Price
Free
Enquiry
Kindly contact Ms Tracy Chau for enquiries.
Apr
20
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Apr
20
Date
20.04.2020
- 20.04.2020
Time Zone
GMT+8
Time
10:30 - 12:00 (Hong Kong time)
12:30 - 14:00 (Sydney time)
Venue
Online via Zoom
Event Host
HKUST-NYU Stern MS in Global Finance Program & CFA Society Australia
