Behavioral Finance.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The Behavioral Economics Working Group held a meeting on Behavioral Finance at the University of Chicago on April 11. Research Associate James J. Choi of Yale University and Faculty Research Fellow Kelly Shue of the University of Chicago organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Cary Frydman, University oi Southern California, "What Drives Peer Effects in Financial Decision-Making? Neural and Behavioral Evidence"

* Flong Ru, MIT, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER, "Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases?"

* Joshua Madsen, University of Minnesota, and Marina Niessner, Yale University, "Is Investor Attention for Sale ? The Role of Advertising in Financial Markets"

* Erik Eyster, London School of Economics; Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley; and Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics...