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2010 Winter Finance Conference
February 4th (Thu)
February 5th (Fri)
February 6th (Sat)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Morning Session (7:30-9:15)
Corporate Finance
Macro Finance
Investments - Information
Session Chair: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
Lauren Cohen (Harvard), Joshua Coval (Harvard), Chris Malloy (Harvard)
Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment
Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School), Kathy Yuan (London School of Econ)
How are Shorts Informed? Short Sellers, News, and Information Processing
Joseph Engelberg (UNC Chapel Hill), Adam Reed (UNC Chapel Hill), Matthew Riggenberg (UNC Chapel Hill)
Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie-Mellon)
Discussant: Anjan Thakor (Washington University)
Discussant: Robert Whitelaw (NYU)
Did Subjectivity Play a Role in CDO Credit Ratings?
John Griffin (Univ of Texas Austin), Dragon Tang (University of Hong Kong)
The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium
Jack Favilukis (LSE), Sydney Ludvigson (NYU), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU)
How Much Do Investors Care About Macroeconomic Risk? Evidence From Scheduled Economic Announcements
Pavel Savor (Wharton), Mungo Wilson (Said Business School - Oxford)
Discussant: Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University)
Discussant: Amir Yaron (Wharton)
Discussant: Charles Jones (Columbia)

Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)
Afternoon Session (5:45-7:30)
 
Investments - Performance
Behavioral Finance
 
Session Chair: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
 
Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior?
Amir Barena (Claremont McKenna College), Henrik Cronqvist (Claremont McKenna College), Stephan Siegel (Univ of Washington)
Can psychological aggregation manipulations affect portfolio risk-taking? Evidence from a framed field experiment.
John Beshears (NBER), James Choi (Yale), David Laibson (Harvard), Brigitte Madrian (Harvard)
 
Discussant: Camelia Kuhnen (Northwestern)
Discussant: Peter Bossaerts (Cal Tech)
 
Performance of institutional trading desks: An analysis of persistence in trading costs
Amber Anand (Syracuse Univ), Paul Irvine (Univ of Georgia), Andy Puckett (Univ of Tennessee), Kumar Venkataraman (Southern Methodist Univ)
Do Smart Investors Outperform Dumb Investors?
Mark Grinblatt (UCLA), Juhani Linnainmaa (Univ of Chicago), Matti Keloharju (Helsinki School of Econ)
 
Discussant: Ekkaert Boehmer (University of Oregon)
Discussant: Gideon Saar (Cornell)
 

Dinner 8:00 p.m.
 
Closing Reception (7:00)
Location: TBA
 
Location: TBA
February 4th (Thu)
February 5th (Fri)
February 6th (Sat)