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, 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, The 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 and Political Science (LSE)
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