Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting

Nicholas C. Barberis, Organizer

November 10, 2023

FORMAT: Presenter, 25 minutes; Discussant, 15 minutes; Q&A, 10 minutes

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 10
8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
John J. Conlon, Harvard University
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

How People Use Statistics
Discussant: Yucheng Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
9:50 am
Ahmed Guecioueur, INSEAD

Soothing Investors: The Impact of Manager Communication on Mutual Fund Flows
Discussant: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
Marius Guenzel, University of Pennsylvania
Clint T. Hamilton, University of California, Berkeley
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

CEO Social Preferences and Layoffs
Discussant: Morten Sorensen, Dartmouth College and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Zigang Li, University of Toronto
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER
Wang Renxuan, CEIBS

Understanding Rationality and Disagreement in House Price Expectations
Discussant: Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
1:50 pm
Zhenyu Gao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wenxi Jiang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wei A. Xiong, Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

Daily Momentum and New Investors in an Emerging Stock Market (slides)
Discussant: Terrance T. Odean, University of California at Berkeley
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Ran Duchin, Boston College
David H. Solomon, Boston College
Jun Tu, Singapore Management University
Xi Wang, Peking University

The Cryptocurrency Elephant in the Room
Discussant: Nicola Borri, LUISS
4:00 pm
Adjourn