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

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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

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

Social Ties and Predictable Returns
Discussant: Xing Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
4:00 pm
Adjourn