Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2016

International Center for Finance

Thursday, May 12 2016 at 8:30 am - Friday, May 13 2016 at 12:00 pm EDT

165 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
United States

The Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference draws top doctoral students from around the world to present their research in the fields of Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance and Behavioral Marketing. The goal of the conference is to foster an environment to promote interaction amongst doctoral student researchers, and to provide feedback for students presenting their work in these fields.

The research efforts in these fields have been helped immeasurably by the generous support of Andrew Redleaf of Whitebox Advisors.

REGISTRATION

In order to ensure we have space for all participants, we ask that you preregister at this site. Registration deadline Friday, May 6, 2016.

For assistance, please contact Electra Ferriello at 203-436-0784 or electra.ferriello@yale.edu

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2016
Day 1: Thursday May 12, 2016
Edward P. Evans Hall, Classroom 4400

8:15am	Bus departs The Omni Hotel for Evans Hall (for conference presenters)
8:30am	Registration and Breakfast outside of classroom 4400 Note: there is a reserved room to secure luggage and belongings if needed in Evans Hall, room 4471*

	SESSION 1: Behavioral Finance
9:00am	Information Arrival and the Term Structure of Short Selling Costs By Gregory Weitzner, University of Texas at Austin
9:30am	Rankings of published price-earnings ratios and value investor attention By Jordan Moore, University of Rochester
10:00am	Mutual Fund Disproportionate Portfolio Adjustment By Claire Yurong Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Law of Small Numbers in a Lucas Economy By Alberto Teguia, Rice University
11:30am	The Role of Limited Attention on Credit Card Delinquency By Paolina C. Medina, Northwestern University
12:00pm	In the Red: How Color Affects Investors and Financial Markets By William J. Bazley, University of Miami
12:30pm	LUNCH outside of classroom 4400

	SESSION 2: Behavioral Marketing
2:00pm	There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Consumers’ Reactions to Pseudo Free Offers By Steven Dallas, New York University
2:30pm	Argumentum ad Novitatem: Mere newness as a choice heuristic By Yun Jie, University of California, Riverside
3:00pm	Duration and Key Moments By Evan Weingarten, University of Pennsylvania
3:30pm	Break
4:00pm	“Twokenism” on Corporate Boards: Threshold Effects and Gender Diversity By Edward Chang, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm	True to the Original: When Additions Subtract from Value By Rosanna Smith, Yale School of Management
5:00pm	Adjourn, Bus departs for The Omni Hotel

7:00pm	Dinner at BAR

Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2016
Day 2: Friday May 13, 2016
Edward P. Evans Hall, Classroom 4200

8:00am	Check out of Hotel (if applicable)
8:15am	Bus departs The Omni Hotel for Evans Hall (for conference presenters)
8:30am	Registration and Breakfast outside of classroom 4200 Note: there is a reserved room to secure luggage and belongings if needed in Evans Hall, room 4268*

	SESSION 3: Behavioral Economics
9:00am	Influencing Decisions: When Do We Build Optimal Choice Architecture? By David P. Daniels, Stanford University
9:30am	Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me: Repeated Choices With Clustered Feedback By David Hagmann, Carnegie Mellon University
10:00am	The Dynamic Effect of Incentives on Post-Reward Task Engagement By Indranil Goswami, University of Chicago
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Paternalism vs Redistribution: Designing Retirement Savings Policies with Behavioral Agents By Christian Moser, Princeton University
11:30am	Falling Behind: Time and Expectations-Based Reference Dependence By Rahul Bhui, California Institute of Technology
12:00pm	BUFFET LUNCH in Beinecke Terrace
1:30pm	Adjourn. Bus departs SOM for The Omni Hotel (for conference presenters)