Workshop in Behavioral Finance
May 6, 2000

Robert J. Shiller and Richard Thaler, Organizers

Nicholas Barberis, University of Chicago and NBER and Ming Huang, Stanford University
"Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Individual Stock Returns"
     Discussant: Richard Thaler, University of Chicago and NBER

Matthew Rabin, UC, Berkeley
"Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers"
     Discussant: Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT and NBER

Bhaskaran Swaminathan and Charles M.C. Lee, Cornell University
"Do Stock Prices Overreact to Earnings News?"
     Discussant: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Alon Brav, Duke University and J.B. Heaton, Bartlitt, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott
"Competing Theories of Financial Anomalies"
     Discussant: Jeremy Stein, MIT and NBER

David Ikenbery and Sundaresh Ramnath, Rice University
"Underreaction"
     Discussant: Roni Michaely, Cornell University

William Goetzmann, Yale University and NBER; Massimo Massa, INSEAD; and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University
"Behavioral Factors in Mutual Fund Flows"
     Discussant: Andrew Metrick, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

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Sponsored by:
Russell Sage Foundation and National Bureau of Economic Research