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Review: Machine learning - the skill of mutual fund managers
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This paper uses machine learning method to predict fund returns, and shows fund characteristics can consistently differentiate high from low-performing mutual funds, as well as identify funds with net-of-fees abnormal returns.
Review: empirical asset pricing via machine learning
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For a long time machine learning has been used in the financial industry, especially in the empirical asset pricing field.
Global Carbon Emission Analysis
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Global warming has been brought up a long time ago, but it never draws most people’s attention not even me till recently. Since 2020, the wild fires in Australia and north America terrified me a lot.
portfolio
Literature Light Map
This portfolio contains a roadmap illustrating the interconnections among influential papers in the field of causal inference. It features detailed replications and discussions of some seminal works. 
publications
Sustainability Pays Off: Investigating the Impact of ESG Scores on Corporate Financial Performance Worldwide
Published in work in progress, 2022
The study analyzes a comprehensive dataset across various companies, industries, and countries, employing rigorous econometric techniques. The findings reveal a statistically significant and positive relationship between lagged ESG scores and financial performance, persisting over time and across diverse contexts.
Stock Return Prediction with Multiple Measures Using Neural Network Models
Published in Financial Innovation, 2023
In the field of empirical asset pricing, the challenges of high dimensionality, non-linear relationships, and interaction effects have led to the increasing popularity of machine learning (ML) methods. This study investigates the performance of ML methods when predicting different measures of stock returns from various factor models and investigates the feature importance and interaction effects among firm-specific variables and macroeconomic factors in this context.
Firms’ Carbon Emissions and Stock Returns
Published in Working Paper, 2023
In recent years, unanticipated climate change risks have propelled green portfolios to achieve superior returns compared to their brown counterparts. Paradoxically, both empirical and theoretical evidence underscore a perplexing phenomenon: brown firms, characterized by higher carbon emissions or lower ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scores, tend to yield greater expected stock returns.
Counterfactual and Synthetic Control Method: Causal Inference with Instrumented Principal Component Analysis
Published in Working Paper, 2024
The fundamental problem of causal inference lies in the absence of counterfactual. In recent advances, researchers modelling the entire data generating process (DGP) to impute the missing counterfactual explicitly. This paper expands the interactive fixed effect (IFE) model by instrumenting covariates into factor loadings adding additional robustness.
talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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