2011 Conference Papers PAPER VIDEO LINKS Anticipation, Acquisitions and Bidder Returns: Industry Shocks and the Transfer of Information across Rivals BY: Jay Cai (Drexel), Moon H. Song (San Diego State), and Ralph Walkling (Drexel) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Public information and IPO Underpricing BY Einar Bakke, Tore Leite, and Karin Thorburn (all at Norwegian School) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns BY Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley) Leonid Kogan (MIT), and Stavros Panageas (Chicago) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Betting Against Beta BY Andrea Frazzini (AQR) and Lasse Pedersen (NYU) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Finding a Good Price in Opaque Over-the-Counter Markets BY Haoxiang Zhu (Stanford) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Cross-listing, Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price and the Learning Hypothesis BY Thierry Foucault (HEC) and Laurent Fresard (HEC) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Information Content when Mutual Funds Deviate from Benchmarks BY Hao Jiang , Marno Verbeek, and Yu Wang (all at Erasmus) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Bad Advice: Explaining the Persistence of Whole Life Insurance BY Santosh Anagol (Penn), Shawn Cole (Harvard ), and Shayak Sarkar (Harvard ) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Is There Price Discovery in Equity Options? BY Dmitriy Muravyev (Illinois), Neil Pearson (Illinois), and John Broussard (Rutgers) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion Who Writes the News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations BY Kenneth R. Ahern (Michigan) and Denis Sosyura (Michigan) Paper Presentation Paper Discussion

2010 Conference Papers PAPER VIDEO LINKS Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing? BY: Lauren Cohen (Harvard), Joshua Coval (Harvard), Chris Malloy (Harvard) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior? BY Amir Barena (Claremont McKenna College), Henrik Cronqvist (Claremont McKenna College), Stephan Siegel (Univ of Washington) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only Performance of institutional trading desks: An analysis of persistence in trading costs. BY Amber Anand (Syracuse Univ), Paul Irvine (Univ of Georgia), Andy Puckett (Univ of Tennessee), Kumar Venkataraman (Southern Methodist Univ) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only Trading Frenzies and Their Impact on Real Investment. BY Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School), Kathy Yuan (London School of Econ) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium BY Jack Favilukis (LSE), Sydney Ludvigson (NYU), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only Can psychological aggregation manipulations affect portfolio risk-taking? Evidence from a framed field experiment. BY John Beshears (NBER), James Choi (Yale), David Laibson (Harvard), Brigitte Madrian (Harvard) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only Do Smart Investors Outperform Dumb Investors? BY Mark Grinblatt (UCLA), Juhani Linnainmaa (Univ of Chicago), Matti Keloharju (Helsinki School of Econ) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only How are Shorts Informed? Short Sellers, News, and Information Processing. BY Joseph Engelberg (UNC Chapel Hill), Adam Reed (UNC Chapel Hill), Matthew Riggenberg (UNC Chapel Hill) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only How Much Do Investors Care About Macroeconomic Risk? Evidence From Scheduled Economic Announcements BY Pavel Savor (Wharton), Mungo Wilson (Said Business School - Oxford) Paper & Discussion Discussion Only