Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting

Nicholas C. Barberis, Organizer

April 9, 2022

Chicago and on Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Saturday, April 9
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Niels Joachim Gormsen, University of Chicago and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Selfish Corporations
Discussant: Florian Zimmermann, University of Bonn
9:50 am
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard University
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs about Covid
Discussant: Alex Imas, University of Chicago and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tim de Silva, Stanford University

What Drives Investors’ Portfolio Choices? Separating Risk Preferences from Frictions
Discussant: Francisco Gomes, London Business School
12:00 pm
Lunch - King Arthur Court
1:00 pm
Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University
Yukun Liu, University of Rochester
Ben Matthies, University of Notre Dame

Institutional Investor Attention
Discussant: Joel Peress, INSEAD
1:50 pm
Sebastian Hillenbrand, Harvard University
Odhrain McCarthy, New York University Abu Dhabi

Heterogeneous Investors and Stock Market Fluctuations
Discussant: Chen Wang, University of Notre Dame
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Lin Peng, Baruch College of the City University of New York
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Muhammed Yonac, Seton Hall University
Dexin Zhou, Baruch College of the City University of New York

Social Ties and Predictable Returns
Discussant: Xing Huang, Cornell University
4:00 pm
Adjourn