Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting
Organized by Nicholas C. Barberis
Supported by Bracebridge Capital and Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
April 9, 2022
Chicago and on Zoom
Saturday, April 9
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Selfish Corporations

Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Niels Joachim Gormsen, University of Chicago and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Florian Zimmermann, University of Bonn
9:50 am

Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs about Covid

Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard University
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Alex Imas, University of Chicago and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

What Drives Investors’ Portfolio Choices? Separating Risk Preferences from Frictions

Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tim de Silva, Stanford University

Discussant:
Francisco Gomes, London Business School
12:00 pm
Lunch - King Arthur Court
1:00 pm

Institutional Investor Attention

Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University
Yukun Liu, University of Rochester
Ben Matthies, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Joel Peress, INSEAD
1:50 pm

Heterogeneous Investors and Stock Market Fluctuations

Sebastian Hillenbrand, Harvard University
Odhrain McCarthy, New York University Abu Dhabi

Discussant:
Chen Wang, University of Notre Dame
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Social Ties and Predictable Returns

Lin Peng, Baruch College of the City University of New York
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Muhammed Yonac, Seton Hall University
Dexin Zhou, Baruch College of the City University of New York

Discussant:
Xing Huang, Cornell University
4:00 pm
Adjourn