Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting
Organized by Nicholas C. Barberis
Supported by Bracebridge Capital and Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
November 8, 2024
Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Friday, November 8
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:00am

Categorical Thinking about Interest Rates

Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Chen Wang, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER
9:50am

Responding to Surprises in an Uncertain World

Thomas Graeber, Harvard University
Christopher Roth, University of Cologne
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University

Discussant:
Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
10:40am
Break
11:10am

Behavioral Impulse Responses

Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University and NBER
Hongyu Wu, Yale University

Discussant:
Leland E. Farmer, University of Virginia
12:00pm
Lunch, Riverfront Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:00pm

Marketwide Memory

Constantin Charles, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Pengfei Sui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK–SZ)

Discussant:
Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
1:50pm

Finance without Exotic Risk

Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Rafael La Porta, Brown University and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Juhani T. Linnainmaa, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:40pm
Break
3:10pm
Session on Correcting Investor Biases
3:11pm

Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias

Marianne Andries, University of Southern California
Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:12pm

Educating Investors about Dividends

Andreas Hackethal, Goethe University Frankfurt
Tobin Hanspal, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
Samuel M. Hartzmark, Boston College and NBER
Konstantin Brauer, Goethe University Frankfurt
4:10pm
Adjourn