Week 9

Financial Intermediation in the Age of AI

The frontier questions: fairness and discrimination in algorithmic finance, search frictions, and how data is reshaping private equity and venture capital.

What we cover

  • Fairness: what it means for an algorithm to be fair
  • ML and discrimination in finance: evidence and mechanisms
  • Search frictions: how matching problems shape financial markets
  • Private equity and venture capital in the age of data

Put it to work

This week’s (entirely optional) lab, PC Lab 8, hunts for breakthrough patents with text analysis.

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