Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting

Nicholas C. Barberis, Organizer

November 8, 2024

Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 8
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
9:00am
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Chen Wang, University of Notre Dame

Categorical Thinking about Interest Rates
Discussant: Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER
9:50am
Thomas Graeber, Harvard University
Christopher Roth, University of Cologne
Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University

Responding to Surprises in an Uncertain World
Discussant: Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
10:40am
Break
11:10am
Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Emil Siriwardane, Harvard University and NBER
Hongyu Wu, Yale University

Behavioral Impulse Responses
Discussant: Leland E. Farmer, University of Virginia
12:00pm
Lunch, Riverfront Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:00pm
Constantin Charles, London School of Economics
Pengfei Sui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Marketwide Memory
Discussant: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
1:50pm
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Rafael La Porta, Brown University and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Finance without Exotic Risk
Discussant: Juhani T. Linnainmaa, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:40pm
Break
3:10pm
Session on Correcting Investor Biases
3:11pm
Marianne Andries, University of Southern California
Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias
3:12pm
Andreas Hackethal, Goethe University Frankfurt
Tobin Hanspal, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Samuel M. Hartzmark, Boston College and NBER
Konstantin Brauer, Goethe University Frankfurt

Educating Investors about Dividends
4:10pm
Adjourn