Warrington in the News Articles: page 22

ChatGPT can’t see the future, but it already has value for investors looking to predict future moves in the stock market. That’s according to a new research paper published Monday in the Social Science Research Network by Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang.

Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang find that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices. They used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random.

Huber Hurst Professor of Business Law Robert Emerson shares his franchising insights as part of a panel discussion on The Law and Economics of Franchising at the Franchise Times Legal Eagles Virtual Summit on April 12. The free virtual summit begins at 10 am CDT.

Jack Kramer Term Associate Professor Michael Mayberry and Assistant Professor Scott Rane are co-authors of a new paper that finds that the risk-incentivizing component of option compensation is positively associated with conforming tax avoidance, while value-creation component of option compensation is negatively associated with conforming tax avoidance.

Forget the stereotype of a goodbye party in the break room followed by endless days on the golf course. Today, workers are staying on the job longer and taking on more “bridge employment,” or post-retirement jobs. Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo Wang talks about what these shifts mean for modern retirement, how retirement can affect people’s mental and physical health, and what workers—even those who still have many years left in the workforce—can do now to help set themselves up for a happy retirement in the future.

This week marks the one-year anniversary since the Russia-Ukraine war began, when Russia invaded Ukraine after supporting the separation of Ukrainian territory. The impact has been global. Asoo Vakharia, a supply chain researcher and McClatchy Professor in the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, has been tracking trends in these global disruptions. While economic 2022 data is still being finalized, Vakharia discusses what we know about the disruption from the war, how countries are coping with the changes, and future supply chain challenges.

Assistant Professor Sehoon Kim‘s recently published academic study found that individual investor demand for socially responsible investing “is highly sensitive to income shocks” and economic stress.

A group of leading AI experts from institutions in the U.S. and abroad presented on a range of topics related to AI and its applications and implications for hiring, management, privacy, health care treatment decisions, population health and more at the UF-NSF Workshop on AI Governance, presented in part by the UF Warrington College of Business Department of Management.

A study from Assistant Professor Sehoon Kim finds that the appetite for ESG investing goes down when there is an economic shock such as Covid-19 lockdowns.

New research from Martin L. Schaffel Professor Klodiana Lanaj and alumni Trevor Foulk (Ph.D. ’17) and Remy Jennings (Ph.D. ’22) shows that the simple act of starting the day with some positive self-reflection can have big impacts on how a leader feels about their role and consequently make them better leaders at work and happier at home.