Behavioral Approaches to Financial Decision Making Schedule


Location: David Rubenstein Forum located at 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637. Presentations are in room 601.

Each session is 55 minutes (25 min for presentation, 15 min for discussion, and 15 minutes for Q&A)

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Check-In
12:30 p.m.—1:00 p.m.

 

Equilibrium Neglect and Political Feasibility
1:00 p.m.—1:55 p.m.

Presenter: Bnaya Dreyfuss, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Jason Dana, University of Pennsylvania

 

Emotions, Trauma and Financial Decision Making
1:55 p.m.—2:50 p.m.

Presenter: Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussant: Jennifer Lerner, Harvard University

 

Break
2:50 p.m.—3:10 p.m.

 

From Number to Words: Breaking Down Institutional Beliefs
3:10 p.m.—4:05 p.m.

Presenter: Federico Bastianello, London School of Economics
Discussant: Marianne Andries, University of Southern California

 

Should Firms Offer Multilingual Decision Aids?
Evidence from a Mortgage Lending Field Experiment  
4:05 p.m.—5:00 p.m.

Presenter: Linda Court Salisbury, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Discussant: James Choi, Yale School of Management

 

Dinner
6:00—9:00 pm
HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen 
1800 S. Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60608

Note: Dinner is for faculty and presenters only.

 

 

Friday September 18, 2026
 

Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.—9:00 a.m.

 

Memory and Probabilistic Reasoning
9:00 a.m.—9:55 a.m.

Presenter: Jessica Wachter, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Jennifer Trueblood, Indiana University

 

Inflow Neglect: Forecasting Failures After Stocks Run Out
9:55 a.m.—10:50 a.m.

Presenter: Suzanne Shu, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Discussant: Anthony Cookson, Smeal College of Business, Penn State

 

Break
10:50 a.m.—11:05 a.m.

 

Data Visualization, Representation Dependence and Rational Inattention
11:05 a.m.—12:00 p.m.

Presenter: Mark Dean, Columbia University
Discussant: Stephanie Smith, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 

Lunch (Room 701)
12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m.

 

Sharing Models to Interpret Data
1:30 p.m.—2:25 p.m.

Presenter: Adi Sunderam, Harvard Business School
Discussant: John Conlon, The Ohio State University

 

Break
2:25 p.m.—2:40 p.m.

 

(Beliefs About) Beliefs About the Desire for Help
2:40 p.m.—3:35 p.m.

Presenter: Ania Jaroszewicz, UC San Diego, Rady School of Management
Discussant: Luca Henkel, Erasmus School of Economics