NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE PROGRAM MEETING

Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, Organizers

November 22, 2008

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21:

6:30 pm            Dinner                            

Dante Restaurant

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA 02142

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22:

8:00 am            Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Ave

8:15 am            Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Ave

8:15 am            Continental Breakfast                            

8:45 am      CAMELIA M. KUHNEN, Northwestern University

AGNIESZKA TYMULA, Northwestern University

Rank Expectations, Feedback, and Social Hierarchies

Discussant: SHIMON KOGAN, University of Texas, Austin

9:45 am HAN OZSOYLEV, University of Oxford

JOHAN WALDEN, UC, Berkeley

Asset Pricing in Large Information Networks

Discussant: XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

10:45 am Break

11:00 am NICOLA GENNAIOLI, CREI

ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

Local Thinking

Discussant: DRAZEN PRELEC, MIT

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm ROGER M. EDELEN, UC, Davis

RICHARD EVANS, University of Virginia

GREGORY KADLEC, Virginia Tech

What Do Soft-Dollars Buy? Performance Expense Shifting, Agency Costs

Discussant: LORI WALSH, Securities and Exchange Commission

2:00 pm RANDY COHEN, Harvard University

CHRISTOPHER POLK, London School of Economics

BERNARD SILLI, London School of Economics

Best Ideas

Discussant: CLEMENS SIALM, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

 3:00 pm            Break                     

3:15 pm HARRISON HONG, Princeton University

LEONARD KOSTOVETSKY, University of Rochester

Red and Blue Investing: Values and Finance

Discussant: RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

4:15 pm             Adjourn

11/12/08