Dr. Simon Alfano
|
|
|
|||
Office Hours | |||||
Upon request | |||||
Teaching | |||||
SS 2016 |
Seminar: Business Intelligence in R |
||||
WS 2015/2016 |
Exercise: Computational Economics |
||||
SS 2015 |
Seminar: Decision Analytics in R (auch Topics) |
||||
WS 2011/2012 |
Tutorial: Computational Economics |
||||
WS 2010/2011 |
Tutorial: Mikroökonomie I |
||||
Awards | |||||
02/2016 - 08/2017 |
Scholarship for doctoral students of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
||||
01/2009 - 11/2012 |
Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
||||
03/2010 |
Recognition of Bachelor Thesis by the Thermo Fisher Scientific |
||||
Vita | |||||
|
|||||
Since 09/2017 |
Research Fellow at the Chair of Information Systems, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
||||
10/2014 - 09/2017 |
PhD at the Chair of Information Systems, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
||||
Since 01/2013 |
Business Consultant at McKinsey & Co., Stuttgart | ||||
10/2010 - 11/2012 |
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg M.Sc. in Economics & Finance |
||||
03/2012 - 11/2012 |
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and University of Zürich |
||||
09/2011 - 10/2011 |
Genentech, Intern Investor Relations, San Francisco, CA | ||||
07/2010 - 09/2010 |
Roche Holdings Inc., Intern Investor Relations, Nutley, NJ | ||||
05/2010 - 06/2010 |
McKinsey & Co., Intern Business Consultant, Stuttgart |
||||
10/2006 - 03/2010 |
B.A. in International Business Management at the Dualen Hochschule Lörrach, B.Sc. in International Business Management an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz und Licence-Gestion-Economie an der Université de Haute-Alsace in Colmar/Mulhouse |
||||
10/2006 - 03/2010 | GE Healthcare, Freiburg Dual Studies in International Business Management, Rotations in Germany, Great Britain, Singapur |
||||
Presentations | |||||
|
|||||
Thesis Proposals | |||||
|
|||||
Scientific Publications
Journal Articles
Years: 2017
2017

- Alfano S, Tuma F, Pröllochs N, Krinitz J
A Real-Time Language Sentiment Index as a Measure of Capital Market Confidence.
2017 Journal of Strategic and International Studies, volume: 12, issue: 3, pages: 26 - 33
Book chapters
Years: 2017
2017

- Förschler F, Alfano S
Reading Between the Lines: The Effect of Language Sentiment on Economic Indicators
In: Feuerriegel S., Neumann D. (eds) Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry. FinanceCom 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 276
2017, Springer, Cham, pages: 89 - 104, - Alfano S, Pröllochs N, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Say It Right: IS Prototype to Enable Evidence Based Communication with Big Data
In: Deokar A. , Gupta A., Iyer L., Jones M. (eds) Analytics and Data Science: Advances in Research and Pedagogy
2017, Springer, - Palade D, Alfano S, Neumann D
Say It at the Right Time: Publication Time of Financial News
In: Feuerriegel S., Neumann D. (eds) Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry. FinanceCom 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 276
2017, Springer, Cham, pages: 62 - 74, - Akpinar N-J, Alfano S, Kersten G, Yu B
The Role of Sentiment and Cultural Differences in the Communication Process of e-Negotiations
In: Schoop M., Kilgour D. M. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation. A Socio-Technical Perspective. GDN 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing,
2017, Springer, Cham, pages: 132 - 144,
Talks
Years: 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2017

- Alfano S
A Real-Time Language Sentiment Index as a Measure of Capital Market Confidence
2017 International Academic Conference on Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting. New York City, USA, May 15, 2017. International Association Of Applied Business Research. - Alfano S
Von der Idee zum Produkt
2017 Ringvorlesung Entrepreneurship, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, April 25, 2017 - Alfano S
How The Market Can Detect Its Own Mispricing - A News Sentiment Index To Detect Irrational Exuberance
2017 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, Big Island, January 5, 2017, IEEE Computer Society
2016

- Alfano S
Drive corporate value through evidence-based capital market communication
2016 FinanceCom 2016 Conference, Frankfurt am Main, December 8, 2016 - Alfano S
Say It at the Right Time: Publication Time of Financial News
2016 FinanceCom 2016 Conference, Frankfurt am Main, December 8, 2016 - Alfano S
Do Pessimists Move Asset Prices? Evidence from Applying Prospect Theory to News Sentiment
2016 2015 EFMA Conference, Doctoral Student Consortium, Basel, Switzerland, 29.06.2016 - Alfano S, Märkle-Huß J
BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN IR: Latest Academic Research and its Implications for IROs
2016 NIRI Annual Conference 2016, San Diego, USA, 08.06.2016 - Alfano S
Mind or gut? The interplay of cognitive and fundamental drivers in price formation
2016 John Molson Business School | Concordia University Montréal, 25.04.2016
2015

- Alfano S
Corporates lack evidence how language drives investor decisions
2015 Startinsland Entrepreneurship Series of the Business Support Office at the University Freiburg, Freiburg, 11.11.2015 - Alfano S, Feuerriegel S
Evidence-based financial communication to drive corporate value
2015 Cercle Investor Relations Austria, Vienna, 31.08.2015 - Alfano S
Asymmetric Information Processing in Financial Markets: Roadmap to Management Science Submission
2015 Doctoral Colloquium, Chair for Information Systems Research, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 08.07.2015
Conference papers
Years: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2018

- Hannemann F, Pröllochs N, Alfano S, Neumann D
Noise Trader Behavior – A Disaggregated Approach to News Reception and Processing in Financial Markets
2018 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018), Portsmouth, UK, June 23-28, 2018
2017

- Krinitz J, Alfano S, Neumann D
How The Market Can Detect Its Own Mispricing - A News Sentiment Index To Detect Irrational Exuberance
2017 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, Big Island, January 4-7, 2017, IEEE Computer Society - Alfano S, Pröllochs N, Märkle-Huß J, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Setting the Right Tone: How Data Science Enables Investor Communication to Choose the Right Language
2017 Proceedings of the 13. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik, St. Gallen, Switzerland - Akpinar N-J, Alfano S, Kersten G, Yu B
The Role of Sentiment and Cultural Differences in the Communication Process of e-Negotiations
2017 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Stuttgart, August 14-18, 2017, GDN. - Alfano S, Yu B, Kersten G, Neumann D
What Is the Right Tone? Language Sentiment in E-negotiations
2017 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation. 2017, University of Hohenheim, Schoop M., Kilgour D. M. (eds), pages: 255 - 264
2016

- Alfano S, Förschler F
Reading Between the Lines: The Effect of Language Sentiment on Economic Indicators
2016 FinanceCom 2016 Conference, Frankfurt am Main, December 8, 2016 - Alfano S, Neumann D, Palade D
Say It at the Right Time: Publication Time of Financial News
2016 FinanceCom 2016 Conference, Frankfurt am Main, December 8, 2016 - Alfano S, Rapp M, Pröllochs N, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Driven by News Tone? Understanding Information Processing When Covariates are Unknown: The Case of Natural Gas Price Movements
2016 9th MKWI 2016, 9th -11th March 2016 in Illmenau, Germany , volume: 3, pages: 1787 - 1798 - Alfano S, Stichler P, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Mind or Gut? The Interplay of Cognitive and Fundamental Drivers in Price Formation
2016 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (WCBI 2016), March 3 - March 5, 2016, Snowbird, Utah, USA
2015

- Alfano S, Pröllochs N, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Say It Right: IS Prototype to Enable Evidence Based Communication with Big Data
2015 Business Analytics Congress (BAC) 2015, Forth Worth, Texas, December 12-13, 2015 - Alfano S, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Is News Sentiment More Than Just Noise?
2015 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015), Münster, Germany, May 26-29, 2015, Complete Research Paper
Other publications
Years: 2016 | 2015
2016

- Alfano S, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Compliance in IR
Informed, volume: Spring 2016, pages: 40 - 41, 2016
2015

- Alfano S, Feuerriegel S, Neumann D
Die neue Herausforderung „Big Data“
Zeitschrift der Freiburger Wirtschaftswissenschaftler e.V., volume: 1, issue: 26, pages: 17 - 18, 2015 - Alfano S
In der Datenflut - Die großen Datenmengen bergen Chancen und Risiken für die Wirtschaft von morgen
Badische Zeitung, volume: 21. November 2015, 2015