Symposium: Heuristics and Biases in Investing Behavior

Saturday, June 1, 2002 – 1:30 to 3:00 pm

Room: TBA

Session Chair: Ravi Dhar

 

*: denotes speaker (as of April 20, 2002)

         

 

All that Glitter: The Effect of Attention and News on the Buying Behavior of Individual and Institutional Investors

Brad Barber, UC - Davis

Terrance Odean, UC - Berkeley

 

Why the Stock Market May Underweight Bad News: An Empirical Analysis

Anna Scherbina, Northwestern University

 

A Non-Random Walk Down the Main Street: Impact of Price Trends on Trading Decisions of Individual Investors

Ravi Dhar, Yale University

Alok Kumar, Cornell University

(Discussant: Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology)

 

Further Evidence on the House-Money Effect and the Escalation of Commitment 

Martin Weber and Heiko Zuchel

Universitaet Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany