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2nd Annual Behavioural Finance Conference

Donald Gordon Conference Centre

GOODES HALL, ROOM 353,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
MAY 1-2, 2011

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Organizers: Fatma Sonmez and Fabio Moneta

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Please contact Amy Marshall or Fatma Sonmez for further information on registration.

Tentative Program

First day: Sunday, May 1, 2011

7:30-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast: Goodes Hall Atrium
8:00-8:15 AM Welcome Remark: David M. Saunders, Dean, Queen's School of Business, Queen's University
8:15-9:15 AM "What Investors Want, What They Do, and How Their Portfolios Perform"
Author/s: Hersh Shefrin and Arvid O. Hoffmann
Presenter: Hersh Shefrin, Santa Clara University, USA
Discussant: Pauline Shum, York University, Canada
9:15-10:15 AM "Local Investors, Price Discovery and Market Efficiency"
Author/s: Sophie Shive, University of Notre Dame, USA
Presenter: Sophie Shive, University of Notre Dame, USA
Discussant: Wei Wang, Queen's University, Canada
10:15-10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 AM "The Expertise of Mutual Fund Managers"
Author/s: Werner DeBondt and Wei Xu
Presenter: Werner DeBondt, DePaul University, USA
Discussant: Kent Womack, University of Toronto, Canada
11:45-1:45 PM Lunch: Goodes Hall Atrium. (Sponsored by the CA-Queen's Centre for Governance)
1:45-2:45 PM "Anchoring Savings: A Field Experiment"
Author/s: James Choi, Emily Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski, and Cade Massey
Presenter: James Choi, Yale University, USA
Discussant: Alessandro Previtero, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2:45-3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 PM "The Business Cycle, Investor Sentiment, and Costly External Finance"
Author/s: David McLean and Mengxin Zhao,University of Alberta, Canada
Presenter: David McLean, University of Alberta, Canada
Discussant: Christopher Parsons, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
5:30-9:00 PM Thousand Islands cruise and dinner

Second Day: Monday, May 2, 2011

7:45-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast: Goodes Hall Atrium
8:15-9:15 AM "Seasonally Varying Preferences: Theoretical Foundations for an Empirical Regularity"
Author/s: Mark J. Kamstra, Lisa A. Kramer, Maurice D. Levi, Tan Wang
Presenter: Lisa Kramer, University of Toronto, Canada
Discussant: Timothy T. Simin, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
9:15-10:15 AM "Emotional Balance and Risk Attitude"
Author/s: Richard Deaves, Narat Charupat, Travis Derouin, Marcelo Klotzle, Peter Miu
Presenter: Richard Deaves, McMaster University, Canada
Discussant: Jean-Sébastien Michel, HEC Montreal, Canada
10:15-10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 AM "Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices"
Author/s: David Easley and Liyan Yang
Presenter: Liyan Yang, University of Toronto, Canada
Discussant: Guo Ying (Rosemary) Luo, McMaster University, Canada