2005 Annual Conference

PEOPLE AND MONEY

The Human Factor in Financial Decision-Making

 

DePaul Center, Chicago

January 28-29, 2005

 

LIST OF PAPER PRESENTERS AND DISCUSSANTS

 

Jeffrey R. Brown, Zoran Ivckovic, Paul Smith, and Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois), “Neighbors Matter: The geography of stock market participation.”

Discussant: Jennifer Marietta-Westberg (Michigan State University).

 

Laura Frieder (Purdue University), “Earnings announ- cements, order flow, and returns.”

Discussant: Bing Han (Ohio State University).

 

Ulrike Malmendier (Stanford University) and Geoffrey Tate, “Superstar CEOs.”

Discussant: Dirk Hackbarth (Indiana University).

 

David V. Budescu (University of Illinois) and Boris Maci- ejovsky, “The effect of monetary feedback and information spillovers on cognitive errors: Evidence from competitive markets.”

Discussant: Tom Rietz (University of Iowa).

 

Kathryn Kadous, Susan Krische (University of Illinois) and Lisa Sedor, “Using counter-explanation to limit unintentional optimism in analysts’ forecasts.”

Discussant: Auke Plantinga (University of Groningen, The Netherlands).

 

Paul Povel (University of Minnesota), Rajdeep Singh, and Andrew Winton, “Boom, busts, and fraud.”

Discussant: Tom Nohel (University of Michigan and Loyola University Chicago).

 

Eitan Goldman and Steve Slezak (University of Cincin- nati), “An equilibrium model of incentive contracts in the presence of information manipulation.”

Discussant: Ravi Jagannathan (Northwestern University).

 

Frank Heflin (Northwestern University) and Charles Hsu, “The impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the use of non- GAAP earnings measures.”

Discussant: Steven Todd (Loyola University Chicago).