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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

                         

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS WORKING GROUP

 

Andrea Frazzini and Kent Daniel, Organizers

 

November 21, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Parkview Room

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Legal Sea Foods 

 

5 Cambridge Center (Kendall Square)

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

VICTOR STANGO, University of California, Davis

 

JONATHAN ZINMAN, Dartmouth College

 

Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Penalty Fees

 

 

 

Discussant:       ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER 

 

 

9:45 am

NICOLAE GARLEANU, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

LASSE PEDERSEN, New York University and NBER

 

Margin-Based Asset Pricing and the Law of One Price

 

 

 

Discussant:       ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

MARK GRINBLATT, UC, Los Angeles

 

MATTI KELOHARJU, Helsinki School of Economics

 

JUHANI LINNAINMAA, University of Chicago

 

Do Smart Investors Outperform Dumb Investors?

 

 

 

Discussant:       OWEN LAMONT,  Yale University

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch-Charles

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

ROBIN GREENWOOD, Harvard University and NBER

 

SAMUEL HANSON, Harvard University

 

Catering to Characteristics

 

 

 

Discussant:       JONATHAN LEWELLEN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

CHRISTOPHER PARSONS, University of North Carolina

 

JOSEPH ENGELBERG, University of North Carolina

 

The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:       PAUL TETLOCK, Columbia University

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:15 pm

MALCOLM BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

 

XIN PAN, Harvard University

 

JEFFREY WURGLER, New York University and NBER

 

A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions

 

 

 

Discussant:       PAVEL SAVOR, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

11/13/09