Workshop in Behavioral Finance
November 12, 2005

Robert J. Shiller and Richard Thaler, Organizers

Andrei Schleifer and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University of NBER
"Persuasion in Finance"
    Discussant: Shane Frederick, MIT

Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University and NBER and Malcolm Baker, Harvard University and NBER
"Government Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
    Discussant: Bhaskaran Swaminathan, Cornell University

Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University (joint with Christian Julliard)
"Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies"
    Discussant: Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

Yiming Qian and Matthew Billett, University of Iowa
"Are Overconfident Managers Born or Made? Evidence of self-Attribution Bias from Frequent Acquirers"
    Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, Stanford University and NBER

Harrison Hong, Princeton University
"The Price of Sin: The Effects of Social Norms on Markets"
    Discussant: Owen Lamont, Yale University and NBER

Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER and Luigi Zingales, Harvard University and NBER (joint with Luigi Guiso)
"Trusting the Stock Market"
    Discussant: Joshua Coval, Harvard University

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Conference sponsored by
Bracebridge Capital, Fuller & Thaler Asset Management and
LSV Asset Management
under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research