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 Thursday, April 30, 2015.

For assistance, please contact Johanna Palacio at 203-436-0784 or Johanna.Palacio@yale.edu

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:30am Registration and breakfast

Session One: Behavioral Finance

9:00am Alan Kwan, Cornell University

“Wisdom of Crowds in Social Media? Counter-evidence From a Large Financial Media Platform”

9:30am John R. Huck, University of Michigan

“Taking a Beating on the Stock Market”

10:00am Konstantin Lucks, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

“Unleashing Animal Spirits – Self-Control and Overpricing in Experimental Asset Markets”

10:30am Erik Duhaime, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Cognitive Reflection and (the Limits of) Strategic Thinking in a Market Choice Game”

11:00am Break

Session Two: Behavioral Economics

11:30am David Klinowski, University of Pittsburgh

“Reluctant donors and their reactions to social information”

12:00pm Christine L. Exley, Stanford University

“Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk”

12:30pm Lunch

Session Two: Behavioral Economics continued

2:00pm Diogo Geraldes, Maastricht University

“Woman Dislike Competing Against Men”

2:30pm Wei Huang & Mi Luo, Harvard University/New York University

“Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly”

3:00pm Anna Custers, University of Oxford

“Not Opening the Envelope: The Role of Emotions and Information Avoidance in Debt Management”

3:30pm Robert Mislavsky, University of Pennsylvania

“Risk is Weird”

4:00pm Break

4:30pm Jaeyeon Chung, Columbia University

“The Consequences of Product Ownership: Performance Handicap in a Product Unrelated Task”

5:00pm Scott Wallace, Duke University

“Reference Points, Subjective Impact and the Dynamic Effects of Goal Specificity”

5:30pm Elizabeth Friedman, Yale School of Management

“The Role of Similarity when Considering Alternatives to Purchase”

6:00pm Conference concludes

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Yale School of Management is inviting submissions for the 11^th Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers in the areas of behavioral economics, behavioral finance, and behavioral marketing (specifically within the domains of consumer behavior and behavioral decision theory).

Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program. To encourage scholarship by junior researchers, the behavioral economics and behavioral finance tracks will show a preference for papers with only students as authors. Complete papers are preferred, but extended abstracts of 750-1000 words will also be considered. Submissions must be received by March 6^th, 2015. Please submit your abstracts or papers to whiteboxdoctoral@yale.edu and indicate your subfield in the subject line.

Please note that for graduate student presenters and other selected graduate students, hotel accommodations and a travel stipend will be provided.

For questions and further information: whiteboxdoctoral@yale.edu

Submission Deadline: March 6, 2015
Conference Organizers: Elizabeth Friedman, Sean Hundtofte, Wenxi Jiang, Peter Kelly

Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2015

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