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 and Political Science (LSE)
Pengfei Sui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ)

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 (WU)
Samuel M. Hartzmark, Boston College and NBER
Konstantin Brauer, Goethe University Frankfurt

Educating Investors about Dividends
4:10pm
Adjourn