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.
Week 9 materials
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.