Discussions

• Discussion of "Annuities and Endogenous Longevity" by Borja Larrain, Alessandro Previtero, and Felipe Severino
18th International Conference of Finance UC (Santiago, Chile, June 2024)
• Discussion of "Beyond Performance: The Financial Education Role of Robo-Advising" by Rubin Hao, Conghui Hu, Xin Xu, and Yu Zhang
NBER Chinese Economy Working Group (Cambridge, MA, October 2022)
• Discussion of "Automation and Inequality in Wealth Management" by Michael Reher and Stanislav Sokolinski
Financial Research Association Meetings (Boston, May 2022)
• Discussion of "Smart(Phone) Investing? A Within Investor-Time Analysis of New Technologies and Trading Behavior" by Ankit Kalda, Benjamin Loos, Alessandro Previtero, and Andreas Hackethal
Financial Research Association Meetings (Las Vegas, December 2021)
• Discussion of "Mutual Fund Revenue Sharing in 401(k) Plans" by Veronika Pool, Clemens Sialm, and Irina Stefanescu
Western Finance Association Meetings (Zoom, June 2021)
• Discussion of "How Important is the Distribution Channel for Mutual Fund Flows?" by Bjarne Florentsen, Ulf Nielsson, Peter Ragghauge, and Jesper Rangvid
American Finance Association Meetings (San Diego, CA, January 2020)
• Discussion of "Unlocking Clients" by Umit Gurun, Noah Stoffman, and Scott Yonker
FIRS (Savannah, GA, May 2019)
• Discussion of "Navigating Complex Financial Decisions at Retirement: Evidence from Annuity Choices in Public Sector Pensions" by Robert Clark, Robert Hammond, and David Vanderweide
NBER Conference on Incentives and Limitations of Employment Policies on Retirement Transitions (Moran, WY, August 2018)
• Discussion of "Regulator Jurisdiction and Investment Adviser Misconduct" by Ben Charoenwong, Alan Kwan, and Tarik Umar
5th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (Washington, DC, May 2018)
• Discussion of "Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt" by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and William L. Skimmyhorn
NBER Aging Program Meeting (Cambridge, MA, March 2018)
• Discussion of "Competition and Cooperation in Mutual Fund Families" by Richard Burtis Evans, Melissa Porras Prado, and Rafael Zambrana Galacho
American Finance Association Meetings (Philadelphia, PA, January 2018)
• Discussion of "Initial Returns and Stock Market Re-Entry Decisions" by Ozlem Arikan, Arie Gozluklu, Gi Kim, and Hiroaki Sakaguchi
Financial Management Association Meetings (Boston, MA, October 2017)
• Discussion of "How Do Households Set Prices? Evidence from Airbnb" by Barbara Bliss, Joey Engelberg, and Mitch Marachka
Oregon Finance Conference (Eugene, OR, August 2017)
• Discussion of "The U.S. Listing Gap" by Craig Doidge, Andrew Karolyi, and Rene Stulz
American Finance Association Meetings (San Francisco, CA, January 2016)
• Discussion of "The Geography of Financial Misconduct" by Christopher Parson, Johan Sulaeman, and Sheridan Titman
Oregon Finance Conference (Eugene, OR, August 2015)
• Discussion of "The Effects of Experience on Investor Behavior: Evidence from India's IPO Lotteries" by Santosh Anagol, Vimal Balasubramaniam, and Tarun Ramadorai
NBER Summer Institute Household Finance (Cambridge, MA, July 2015)
• Discussion of "Portfolio Manager Compensation in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry" by Linlin Ma, Yuehua Tang, and Juan-Pedro Gomez
Western Finance Association Meetings (Seattle, WA, June 2015)
• Discussion of "Matching Capital and Labor" by Jonathan Berk, Jules van Binsbergen, and Binying Liu
NBER Corporate Finance Program Meeting (Cambridge, MA, November 2014)
• Discussion of "Who is Internationally Diversified? Evidence from 296 401(k) Plans" by Geert Bekaert, Kenton Hoyem, Wei-Yin Hu, and Enrichetta Ravina
16th Annual Retirement Research Consortium Conference (Washington, DC, August 2014)
• Discussion of "Individual Judgment and Trust Formation:An Experimental Investigation of Online Financial Advice" by Julie Agnew, Hazel Bateman, Christine Eckert, Fedor Iskhakov, Jordan Louviere, and Susan Thorp
NBER Summer Institute Household Finance (Cambridge, MA, July 2014)
• Discussion of "WSJ Category Kings: The Impact of Media Attention on Consumer and Mutual Fund Investment Decisions" by Ron Kaniel and Robert Parham
1st Annual Risk Management Academic Conference (University of Connecticut, May 2014)
• Discussion of "The Costs and Benefits of Financial Advice" by Stephen Foerster, Juhani Linnainmaa, Brian Melzer, and Alessandro Previtero
Conference on Household Behavior in Risky Asset Markets: An International Perspective (Harvard Business School, March 2014)
• Discussion of "Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program" by Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Tomasz Piskorski, and Amit Seru
AIM Investment Center Conference (Austin, TX, November 2013)
• Discussion of "Equity Lending, Investment Restrictions, and Fund Performance" by Richard Evans, Miguel Ferreira, and Melissa Porras
Oregon Finance Conference (Eugene, OR, July 2013)
• Discussion of "Do Mutual Fund Investors Chase False Returns?" by Blake Phillips, Kuntara Pukthuanthong, and Raghavendra Rau
SFS Finance Cavalcade (University of Miami, May 2013)
• Discussion of "Do 401k Plan Advisors Take Their Own Advice?" by Tomas Dvorak
American Economic Association Meetings (San Diego, CA, January 2013)
• Discussion of "Individual Investor Activity and Performance" by Magnus Dahlquist, Jose Martinez, and Paul Soderlind
NBER-Oxford Said-CFS-EIEF Conference on Household Finance Household Finance (Oxford Said, September 2012)
• Discussion of "Is Proprietary Trading Detrimental to Retail Investors?" by Falko Fecht, Andreas Hackethal, and Yigitcan Karabulut
NBER Summer Institute Household Finance (Cambridge, MA, July 2011)
• Discussion of "Public Market Staging: The Timing of Capital Infusions in Newly Public Firms" by Michael Hertzel, Mark Huson, and Robert Parrino
University of Oregon Research Conference in Recognition of the Scholarly Contributions of Larry Y. Dann (Eugene, OR, August 2010)
• Discussion of "Do Mutual Funds Trade Differently at Home and Abroad?" by Sandy Lai, Lilian Ng, Bohui Zhang, and Zhe Zhang
4th Conference on Professional Asset Management (Rotterdam, March 2010)
• Discussion of "The Dark Role of Investment Banks in the Market for Corporate Control" by Andriy Bodnaruk, Massimo Massa, and Andrei Simonov
American Finance Association Meetings (New Orleans, LA, January 2008)
• Discussion of "Payday Matters: A Look at Trader Behavior within Pay Cycles" by Ryan Garvey and Fei Wu
Western Finance Association Meetings (Big Sky, MT, June 2007)
• Discussion of "Purchasing IPOs with Commissions: Theoretical Predictions and Empirical Results" by Michael Goldstein, Paul Irvine, and Andy Puckett
American Finance Association Meetings (Chicago, January 2007)
• Discussion of "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflict of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice" by Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
Financial Research Association Meetings (Las Vegas, December 2006)
• Discussion of "Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds" by Marcin Kacperczyk, Clemens Sialm, and Lu Zheng
Western Finance Association Meetings (Keystone, CO, June 2006)