Saturday, April 13

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

What Hundreds of Economic News Events Say About Belief Overreaction in the Stock Market

Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER

9:50 am

The Retail Habitat

Toomas Laarits, New York University
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University

Discussant:
Eric C. So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Break

11:10 am

A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

J. Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
Josh Hascher, Yale University
Alex Imas, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Ungeheuer, Aalto University
Martin Weber, Universitaet Mannheim

Discussant:
Cary Frydman, University of Southern California

Lunch - Room 621

1:00 pm

Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Jin Xie, Peking University
Jiaquan Yao, Jinan University

Discussant:
Justin Murfin, Cornell University

1:50 pm

Salience and Short-term Momentum and Reversals

Yili Chen, Peking University
Huaixin Wang, Tsinghua University
Jianfeng Yu, Tsinghua University

Discussant:
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame

Break

3:10 pm

Mental Models of the Stock Market

Peter Andre, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
Philipp Schirmer, University of Bonn
Johannes Wohlfart, University of Cologne

Discussant:
Francesca Bastianello, University of Chicago

Adjourn