Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting

Nicholas C. Barberis, Organizer

April 14-15, 2023

Format: 25 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants and 10 minutes for Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 14
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at the Gleacher Center, Room 621
Dinner Speaker: Laura Veldkamp, Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Saturday, April 15
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Ned Augenblick, University of California at Berkeley
Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Thaler, University College London

Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals
Discussant: Thomas Graeber, Harvard University
9:50 am
Cary Frydman, University of Southern California
Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER

On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting
Discussant: George Wu, University of Chicago
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
Kai Barron, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Tilman Fries, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Narrative Persuasion
Discussant: Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
Petra Vokata, Ohio State University

Salient Attributes and Household Demand for Security Designs
Discussant: Boris Vallee, Harvard University
1:50 pm
Fiona Greig, Vanguard
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
Stephen Utkus, University of Pennsylvania
Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London

Algorithm Aversion: Theory and Evidence from Robo-Advice
Discussant: Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Shimon Kogan, Reichman University
Igor Makarov, London School of Economics
Marina Niessner, Indiana University
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Are Cryptos Different? Evidence from Retail Trading
Discussant: Marco C. Sammon, Harvard University
4:00 pm
Adjourn