MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Economics, Finance & Risk Systems × BAFA South-East Area Group Webinar | The Economics of AI: Understanding the Value of Data Input
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MDPI's Journal Cluster of Economics, Finance & Risk Systems x BAFA South-East Area Group Webinar
The Economics of AI: Understanding the Value of Data Input
This webinar is hosted under MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Economics, Finance and Risk Systems in collaboration with the British Accounting and Finance Association, South-East Area group. The theme of the webinar is The Economics of AI: Understanding the Value of Data Input. As data has become a vital production factor alongside traditional capital and labour, artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate decision‑making, financial market dynamics, firm valuation and macroeconomic outcomes.
Bringing together three distinguished scholars—Professor Monomita Nandy, Professor Laura Veldkamp and Professor Douglas J. Cumming—this session bridges macro data‑driven economic theory, fintech innovation, digital‑market governance and empirical finance research. Speakers will deliver interactive presentations exploring core questions including how data generates economic value, measurement obstacles within AI‑enabled financial systems, regulatory implications for digital finance, and emerging research frontiers at the intersection of artificial intelligence, corporate finance and risk. The webinar concludes with an open interactive Q&A to facilitate cross‑disciplinary discussion among attendees.
Date: 16 October 2026
Time: 3:00 pm CEST | 2:00 pm BST | 9:00 am EDT
Webinar ID: 843 1104 5697
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Chair
Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London, UK;Monomita Nandy is Professor of Finance at Brunel University of London. Her research focuses on corporate finance, sustainability fintech, digital innovation, corporate governance and financial risk. She has an extensive publication record in peer reviewed interdisciplinary journals and actively engages in academic outreach within economics finance research communities. Her recent work examines technology driven transformation in financial markets alongside related governance and risk management challenges.
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Laura L. Veldkamp
Columbia University, United States of America, New York;Laura Veldkamp is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. Holding a Ph.D. from Stanford University, she is a prominent fellow of top economic research societies and an economic advisor to major global financial institutions. Her current research centers on AI and data economics, investigating the impacts of data analytics and artificial intelligence on financial markets and the macroeconomy.
College of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America;Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is a Professor of Finance and the Steven Shulman ’62 Endowed Chair of Digital Innovation at the Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business. Douglas has published over 260 articles in leading journals (including 51 in Financial Times top 50 journals) and 23 books with Oxford, Wiley, and others. Douglas' work has been cited over 39,000 times. Douglas is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Alternative Investments. Douglas’ work has been reviewed in The Economist, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, the National Post, and The New Yorker.
