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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Behavioral Economics Working Group

Behavioral Finance Meeting
Kent D. Daniel and Tano Santos, Organizers

October 30, 2010

NBER, Offices,
Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA


PROGRAM

 

Friday, October 29, 2010


4:00 pm


Panel Discussion (joint with NBER Corporate Finance Meeting)
Corporate Finance Meeting
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA


 

Panelists: David Laibson and Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER,
Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER,
Robert Shiller, Yale University and NBER


6:30 pm


Dinner
Legal Sea Foods (Kendall Square)
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02139

Saturday, October 30, 2010

8:00 am

Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER

8:20 am

Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Kenneth R. Ahern, University of Michigan
Daniele Daminelli, Politecnico di Milano
Cesare Fracassi, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of
Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World

Discussant Luigi Zingales,
University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Cary Frydman, California Institute of Technology
Nicholas C. Barberis, Yale University and NBER
Peter Bossaerts and Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
 Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology and NBER
Realization utility and regret signals in the brain are associated with suboptimal stock market transactions

Discussant: Mark Dean, Brown University


11:15 am


Camelia M. Kuhnen, Northwestern University
Brian Knutson, Stanford University
Gregory R.. Samanez-Larkin, Stanford University
Different Affective Learning Systems Contribute to the Accumulation of Assets and Debt

Discussant: Colin Camerer, Calltech

12:15 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Henrik Cronqvist,
Claremont McKenna College
Stephan Siegel,
Columbia University
The Origins of Savings Behavior

Discussant: Andrew Lo, MIT and NBER


2:30 pm


Andrea Frazzini, AQR Capital Management
Lasse H. Pedersen,
New York University and NBER
Betting Against Beta

Discussant: John Heaton,
University of Chicago NBER

3:30 pm

Break


3:45 pm


Xavier Gabaix,
New York University and NBER
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

Discussant: Sendhil Mullainathan,
Harvard University and NBER


4:45 pm


Adjourn

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