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Welcome to the Webpage of the Second Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Students Conference

The Yale University School of Management is holding the Second Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference on Behavioral Approaches to Finance, Economics and Marketing on June 9th, 2006. The goal of this conference coincides with the overarching goals of the Whitebox Fellowship: to sustain the drive towards high quality research and the fruitful interaction among graduate researchers working in all relevant areas of study. Invited Guest Faculty Speaker will be Prof. Nicholas Barberis, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management .

Conference Co-Chairs: Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Andrew Poehlman

Schedule:

9-9:30am
breakfast
9:30am-10:45am

Session I: Behavioral Finance

  1. Alex Edmans, MIT, "Sports Sentiment and Stock Returns"
  2. Zahi Ben-David, University of Chicago, "Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies"
  3. Paul Gao, Northwestern University, "Information Aggregation, Herding, and Momentum Effects"
10:45-11:00am
break
11:00-12:15pm

Session II: Behavioral Economics

  1. Peter Fishman, Berkeley, "Specific Deterrence: Evidence from the Video Rental Market"
  2. Constanca Esteves, Berkeley, "Inertia in Television Viewing"
  3. Filippos Papakonstantinou, Princeton, "The Planning Fallacy"
12:15-1:15pm
lunch
1:15-2:30pm

Session III: Behavioral Marketing and Psychology

  1. Daniel Lieb, Duke University, "How preparing leads to increased liking for experiences: Prior Simulation and the dual role of fluency"
  2. Leonardo Nicolao, University of Texas, "Misremembering Negative Experiences: the Role of Self-relevance and Mood"
  3. Scott Rick, Carnegie Mellon University, "Conflicts between Affect and Deliberation among Spendthrifts and Tightwads"
2:30-2:45pm
break
2:45-3:30pm

Guest Faculty Speaker: Nicholas Barberis, Yale University, "Kahneman and Tversky meet Finance: What have we learned?"

 

3:30-3:45pm
break
3:45-5:00pm

Session IV: Behavioral Marketing and Psychology

  1. Adam Alter, Princeton University, "Predicting Short-Term Stock Fluctuations by Using Processing Fluency"
  2. Ryan Hamilton, Northwestern University, "Choice in a Visual Context: The Perceptual Focus Effect and Individual Decision Making"
  3. Emily Haisley, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, "Loving a Bad Bet: The Effect of Myopic Decision Making on the Purchase of Lottery Tickets"

Conference location: The Quinnipiac Club, 221 Church St., New Haven, CT 06510 [map]

Conference hotel: The Colony, 1157 Chapel St., New Haven, CT 06511[map]

Friday night dinner(by invitation only): Zinc, 964 Chapel St New Haven, CT 06510[map]

Usefull links:

Yale School of Management

New Haven guide (including downton map)

Metro-North Schedule (from New York (Grand Central Terminal station)to New Haven)

New Heven Tweed Airport

Taxi: 203-777-7777

New Haven Bus Schedule (J 'Whitney Avenue' bus from train station (Union Station) or G bus from the airport)

For more information contact: anastasiya.pocheptsova@yale.edu or t.andrew.poehlman@yale.edu

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