Behavioral Finance Working Group
Organized by Nicholas C. Barberis
Supported by Bracebridge Capital and Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
November 2, 2018
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, November 1

6:30 pm

Dinner
Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

Friday, November 2

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Credit Cycles and Corporate Investment

Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
Mihai Ion, The University of Arizona
Stefano Rossi, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Samuel Hanson, Harvard University and NBER

9:30 am

A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy

Carolin Pflueger, University of Chicago and NBER
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University and NBER
Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Efficient Coding and Risky Choice

Cary Frydman, University of Southern California
Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER

Discussant:
Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

The Madness Of Crowds And The Likelihood Of Bubbles

Alexander M. Chinco, Michigan State University

Discussant:
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford

2:00 pm

Fake News: Evidence from Financial Markets

Shimon Kogan, Reichman University
Tobias J. Moskowitz, Yale University and NBER
Marina Niessner, Indiana University

Discussant:
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Perception of House Price Risk and Homeownership

Manuel Adelino, Duke University and NBER
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College

Discussant:
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University and NBER

4:30 pm

Adjourn