FinanceProf at CU Boulder (@leedsbiz) | Husband, father of two | Editor at @RevOfCorpFin | AE at @J_Fin_Economics and MgmtScience
Boulder, CO
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I married my non-economist wife ~13 yrs ago. We moved from MT to Chicago to CO. We're raising two beautiful kids.
She's seen my best... and my worst.
But, the other day, she said, "I just want to know the counterfactual!" in regular conversation.
That's love. Deep, deep love.
Hello all -- just a quick reminder that there are only a few more days (until Aug 31) to submit your paper to this years Financial Research Association (FRA) conference.
Link here: fraconference.com/submit/
We're grateful to be offering a dual submit with JFE again this year.
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An insightful overview of social media, AI and financial markets by a leading expert in the field.
#SocialFinance @prof_cookson
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Paper on social media and merger decisions
#SocialFinance Specifically, social *corporate* finance. We need more of that.
Check out this blog on our paper, which is in press at JF.
CC my coauthors @marinaniessner and Christoph Schiller.
🚨📣Given that my LinkedIn network doesn't fully overlap with here, I wanted to share (repeat) some big career news. This summer, I'm moving to Penn State.
It is a great offer professionally, but it is truly equal parts "whole family" move and job opportunity move.
Hugely updated draft of my paper with @BhagwatVineetb, @marinaniessner and Chukwuma Dim. If you saw an earlier draft, this version is much better. Check out Vineet's thread for more details.
Excited to keep improving this research with LLMs as a lens into financial markets.
New paper w/ @prof_cookson @marinaniessner & Chukwuma Dim on using LLMs to measure investor disagreement. The basic question: can we capture how differently people react to the same financial news, at scale? 🧵 1/10
This is such a huge moment in my world.
I'm one of the thousands of fans who is going crazy in the background when this catch was made.
Check out this blog on our paper, which is in press at JF.
CC my coauthors @marinaniessner and Christoph Schiller.
Can Social Media Inform Corporate Decisions? Evidence from Merger Withdrawals, corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025… #corpgov
I currently have too many "Ben"s in my life.
One Ben coauthor; I'm discussing a paper at ASSA by two different Bens. Yet another Ben is discussing a paper of mine next week. To top it all off, the team who rebuilt our deck had 3 Bens on it.
For at least one journal submission system out there, if you ask a referee to review a paper on Thanksgiving eve, the automatically populated deadline is Christmas eve.
'tis the season
Big game in my world.
youtube.com/watch?v=sYYAv-QW…
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A thing I recently learned is that overworking seems pretty bad for your health. For most of my 20's I was working 60-70 hour weeks regularly. I was otherwise pretty healthy, food/sleep/exercise wise, no bad habits, but around 29/30 I was getting sick once every few weeks
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Leeds' @prof_cookson and Emily Gallagher share steps homeowners can take now to reduce the risk of holding insufficient insurance coverage with @ConversationUS. brnw.ch/21wWSrB
I was part of a group today where the organizer started by saying “You don’t look like the kind of group who might post on social media…”
I really connected with this segment.
youtube.com/shorts/3hNtEWG6Q…
Link to the paper here if you are interested (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…). Also, some more slide images from the initial deck.
Hi all -- just a reminder that, this year, August 31 (the FRA deadline) falls on a weekend. Don't let that be the reason you do not submit.
Submission link here: fraconference.com/submit/