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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Behavioral Economics Working Group

Joseph Engelberg and Christopher A. Parsons, Organizers

October 24-25, 2013

University of California- San Diego
Rady School of Management
San Diego, CA 92093

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 24, 2013
12:00 pm		Lunch
1:00 pm		PRICING PUZZLES Clifford Assness, AQR Andrea Frazzini, AQR Lasse Pedersen, AQR Quality Minus Junk Discussant: Charles M. C. Lee, Stanford University Martin Cherkes, Columbia University Charles M. Jones, Columbia University Chester S. Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER A Solution to the Palm-3Com Spin-off Puzzles Discussant: Christopher Polk, London School of Economics
3:00 pm		Break
3:30 pm		PH.D STUDENT SESSION Chi Liao, University of Toronto Risk Taking Begets Risk Taking: Evidence from Casino Openings and Investor Portfolios (Ph.D. Student) Discussant: Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Francesco D’Acunto, University of California at Berkeley Identity, Overconfidence and Investment Decisions Discussant: Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Friday, October 25, 2013
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	: PORTFOLIO CHOICE Mark Kamstra, York University Lisa A. Kramer, University of Toronto Maurice Levi, University of British Columbia Russ Wermers, University of Maryland at College Park Seasonal Asset Allocation: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows Discussant: Kelly Shue, University of Chicago Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER Hyun Soo. Choi, Princeton University Jeffrey Kubik, Syracuse University Jeffrey P. Thompson, Singapore Management University When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town Discussant: Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	TRANSMISSION BIASES Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER Dong Lou, London School of Economics Christopher Malloy, Harvard University and NBER Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News Discussant: David Solomon, University of Southern California Bing Han, University of Texas, Austin David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine Undersaving and Biased Norm Transmission Discussant: Christopher Malloy, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm	Adjourn
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