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WHITEBOX GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

May 5, 2011

General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue

 

Conference Co-Chairs: (M) Jennifer Danilowitz, Jongmin Kim

(E) Bige Kahraman, Steven Malliaris, Salil Pachare

 

 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

 

8:30 – 9:00 am          Breakfast and Registration

 

9:00 – 10:30 am        Session One: Behavioral Economics and Finance

Cindy Soo, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania   
Quantifying Animal Spirits: Investor Sentiment in the Housing Market

Michaela Pagel, University of California, Berkeley
Expectations-based Reference-Dependent Preferences in a Life-Cycle Consumption Model

Eduardo Azevedo, Harvard University
Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect – Evidence From Hunter-Gatherers

 

10:30 – 10:45 am      Break

 

10:45 – 11:45 am      Session Two: Behavioral Finance

Thomas Eisenbach and Martin Schmalz, Princeton University    
Anxiety in the Face of Risk

Clemens Otto, London Business School
CEO Optimism and Incentive Compensation

 

12:00 – 1:15 pm        Lunch, General Motors Room

 

1:15 –2:45 pm           Session Three: Behavioral Marketing

Sean Blair, Northwestern University          
Can Brands Do Well by Doing Good? The Benevolent Halo of Social Goodwill

Soraya Lambotte, Booth School, University of Chicago
Choice as Magic

Charles Zhang (Yizi), University of Michigan
How one year differs from 365 days: Consumers¡¯ inferences from the format of quantitative expressions

Jayson Shi Jia, Stanford University
Preference for Potential

 

 

2:45 – 3:00 pm          Break

 

3:00 – 4:15 pm          Session Four: Behavioral Science

Chan Jean Lee, Haas School, University of California, Berkeley
Fear, Social Projection, and Financial Decision Making

Alex Imas, University of California, San Diego
Conscience Accounting

Daniel Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University
Discounting the Environment

 

6:30 pm                      Dinner, Bar Night Club, 254 Crown St, New Haven - (203) 495-8924

 

 

 

Accommodation

 

Omni Hotel, New Haven: http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/NewHavenYale.aspx?cid=sd_psg_b-property

 

 

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