Gillmore Centre Webinar Symposium on the Power of Social Networks in Capital Markets: Insights from Large-Scale Data Analysis

Hosted by Dr Shu Zhang Gillmore Centre Research Fellow

Speaker: Professor Lin PengLink opens in a new window is the Krell Chair Professor in Finance at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York

As Aristotle famously noted, ''Humans are, by nature, social animals.'' Social networks' impacts on capital markets are likely to be even more important today because large-scale online social networks allow for easy communication among individuals that transcends the frictions associated with factors such as geographic distances.