Quadrant Private Wealth Behavioral Finance Conference
The Fourth Quadrant Private Wealth Behavioral Finance Conference
The Quadrant Behavioral Finance Conference, sponsored by Quadrant Private Wealth and organized by the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba, invites submissions to discuss timely and emerging topics in behavioral and household finance. This in-person event aims to foster interactions and discussion among academic researchers and practitioners, thus each participant will have approximately 45 minutes for a substantive presentation of their paper followed by discussion.
This one-day conference will take place on Friday, May 9th, 2025, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights at the Forks National Historic Site.
2025 Conference Program
| Time | Activity |
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Coffee and registration |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. | Opening remarks: Chi Liao, Acting Associate Dean Research |
| 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Keynote speaker: Kelly Shue, Amman Mineral Professor of Finance, Yale University |
| 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. | Do investors value DEI? Evidence from the Stop WOKE Act Hoa Briscoe-Tran, University of Alberta Stephan Siegel, University of Washington Presenter: Hoa Briscoe-Tran, University of Alberta Discussant: Shiu-Yik Au, University of Manitoba |
| 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Remotely Productive: The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives Ran Duchin, Boston College Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University Presenter: Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University Discussant: Jianning Huang, University of Manitoba |
| 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15 - 2:00 p.m. | The Cross-section of Subjective Expectations: Understanding Prices and Anomalies Ricardo De la O, University of Southern California Xiao Han, City University London Sean Myers, University of Pennsylvania Presenter: Ricardo De la O, University of Southern California Discussant: Stanislav Sokolinski, Michigan State University |
| 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. | Gender Bias and Crowd-Sourced Financial Information Vineet Bhagwat, George Washington University Chukwuma Dim, George Washington University Sara E. Shirley, Middle Tennessee State University Jeffrey R. Stark, Middle Tennessee State University Presenter: Vineet Bhagwat, George Washington University Discussant: Peter Cziraki, Texas A&M University |
| 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. | Newspaper Closures and Trading in Local Stocks Peter Cziraki, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School Jasmin Gider, Tilburg University Presenter: Peter Cziraki, Texas A&M University Discussant: Vineet Bhagwat, The George Washington University |
| 3:45 - 4:30 p.m. | Does Sustainable Investing Dull Stock Reactions to Cash Flow Steffen Hitzemann, University of Houston Alaia An Qin, Rutgers Business School Stanislav Sokolinski, Michigan State University Andrea Tamoni, University of Notre Dame Presenter: Stanislav Sokolinski, Michigan State University Discussant: Ricardo De la O, University of Southern California |
| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Wine reception |
Keynote speaker
Kelly Shue
Amman Mineral Professor of Finance at Yale University
Dr. Dr. Shue's academic interests lie at the intersection of behavioral economics and empirical corporate finance. Her research has explored sustainable investing, the Peter Principle, compensation and promotions, gender and negotiations, the gambler's fallacy, contrast effects, and non-proportional thinking in asset pricing. She is a Director of the European Finance Association and the Financial Research Association, and Co-Principal Investigator of the National Bureau of Economic Research Project on Executive Compensation. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Corporate Finance Studies. She previously served as an Editor at the Review of Finance and Associate Editor at Management Science. Prior to joining Yale, she was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and BA in Applied Mathematics, also from Harvard University.
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