Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting
Organized by Nicholas C. Barberis
Supported by Bracebridge Capital and Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
April 14-15, 2023
Gleacher Center, Room 100, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL, Zoom
Format: 25 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants and 10 minutes for Q&A
Friday, April 14
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at the Gleacher Center, Room 621
Dinner Speaker: Laura Veldkamp, Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Saturday, April 15
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals

Ned Augenblick, University of California, Berkeley
Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Thaler, University College London

Discussant:
Thomas Graeber, Harvard University
9:50 am

On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting

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

Discussant:
George Wu, University of Chicago
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Narrative Persuasion

Kai Barron, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Tilman Fries, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Discussant:
Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Salient Attributes and Household Demand for Security Designs

Petra Vokata, The Ohio State University

Discussant:
Boris Vallee, INSEAD
1:50 pm

Algorithm Aversion: Theory and Evidence from Robo-Advice

Fiona Greig, The Vanguard Group
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
Stephen Utkus, University of Pennsylvania
Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London

Discussant:
Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Are Cryptos Different? Evidence from Retail Trading

Shimon Kogan, Reichman University
Igor Makarov, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Marina Niessner, Indiana University
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University
4:00 pm
Adjourn