Friday, September 11th, 2020
Session 1
Kory Kroft, “Salience with Imperfect Competition”
Johannes Spinnewijn, “Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias”
Discussant: Dmitry Taubinsky
Session 2
Justine Hastings, “The Effects of Earnings Disclosure on College Enrollment Decisions”
Heather Schofield, “Attention as Human Capital”
Discussant: Ernst Fehr
Session 3
Andrei Shleifer, “Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market Puzzles”
Jessica Wachter, “A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions”
Discussant: Michael Woodford
Session 4
Ulrike Malmendier, “Exposure to Daily Price Changes Inflation Expectations”
Xavier Gabaix, “In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations”
Discussant: John Leahy
Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Session 1
Michaela Pagel, “Post-Retirement Savings and Reduction of Consumer Debt”
Victoria Gregory “Defined Contribution Pensions, Retirement Income Uncertainty, and Precautionary Savings”
Discussant: Soren Leth-Petersen
Session 2
Ziad Obermeyer, “A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care: Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions”
Vikram Krishnamurthy ” Two views of Inverse Reinforcement Learning” –
” Rationally Inattentive Inverse Reinforcement Learning Explains YouTube Commenting Behavior ”
“Langevin Dynamics for Inverse Reinforcement Learning of Stochastic Gradient Algorithms”
Discussant: Andrew Caplin
Session 3
Gautam Rao, “The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor”
Supreet Kaur, “Does Financial Strain Lower Productivity?”
Discussant: Isabelle Salcher
Session 4
Ben Handel, “The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands”
Jason Abaluck, “Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans”
Discussant: Sarah Miller