PEOPLE AND MONEY
The Human Factor in Financial Decision-Making
DePaul Center, Chicago
March 24-25, 2006
LIST OF PAPER PRESENTERS AND DISCUSSANTS
Day 1: Friday March 24
Anna Scherbina and Li Jin (Harvard Business School),“INHERITED PORTFOLIOS.”
Discussant: Andrea Frazzini (University of Chicago).
Greg Niehaus (University of South Carolina) and David Shrider (Miami University), “REDEMPTION BEHAVIOR BY LOAD MUTUAL FUND INVESTORS.”
Discussant: Lu Zheng (University of Michigan).
Ping He and Xiaoqing Hu (University of Illinois at Chicago), “DO INVESTORS DIVERSIFY OVER TIME?”
Discussant: Robert Chirinko (Emory University)
Stephen Dimmock (Michigan State University), “LOSS-AVERSION AND HOUSEHOLD PORTFOLIO CHOICE.”
Discussant: Bing Han (Ohio State University)
Day 2: Saturday March 25
Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago), Dean Karlan (Yale University),
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University), Eldar Shafir (Princeton University),
and Jonathan Zinman (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), “WHAT’S PSYCHOLOGY WORTH? A FIELD EXPERIMENT IN THE CONSUMER CREDIT MARKET.”
Discussant: Joost Pennings (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Daniel Benjamin and Jesse Shapiro (Harvard University and University of Chicago), “WHO IS BEHAVIORAL? COGNITIVE ABILITY AND ANOMALOUS PREFERENCES.”
Discussant: TBA.
Matthew Billett and Yiming Qian (University of Iowa), “ARE OVERCONFIDENT MANAGERS BORN OR MADE? EVIDENCE OF SELF-ATTRIBUTION BIAS FROM FREQUENT ACQUIRERS”
Discussant: Dirk Hackbarth (Washington University).
