Leaving the #ASSA2026 meeting with a strong sense of where finance scholarship is heading - more data (more granular, broader international coverage), more experimentation, more serious engagement with AI and a great new outlet for publications.

Excited for the ASSA Meeting! If you are in Philly, swing by the experimental finance session tomorrow at 10:15 at the headquarters, room 410

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Moral concerns about layoffs and increasing CEO pay dominate shareholder preferences (across the political spectrum). Great article about a new paper by Elisabeth Kempf, Oliver Spalt and myself: www.promarket.org/2025/02/18/c...

Interesting call for grant proposals (5k Euro) for young researchers in the field of behavioral finance (deadline end of Feb): www.behavioral-finance.de/grant/propos...

As a journal editor for a few decades I find it pleasing to watch scholars mature. They eventually realize that journal refeering is not about how many papers they can knock down but how many they can lift up.

Have a paper on investor behavior? Submit to the Helsinki Finance Summit on August 18-19th. Submission deadline is March 9th. #EconSky www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...

Excited about Ulrike Malmendier’s lecture on the moral toll of layoffs. Everyone is welcome to tune it at 5pm CET on January 27th.

Are corporate actions evaluated by investors and stakeholders as financial or moral issues? Which textbook corporate actions are the biggest moral issue and why? Our results will be presented later today, come by to discuss. #ASSAMeeting #ASSA2025

Kicking off ASSA with an inspiring session on the methodology of measuring beliefs. Showcased behavioral weaknesses of scoring rules: 70%(!) violate its reduction assumption. Showed that people exert way more effort when being TOLD what to do, no incentives at all. www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

Excited to arrive in San Francisco for the #ASSA2025 #ASSAMeeting

New year, new resolutions. If your resolutions this year address your risk-taking behavior (financial investments or otherwise), make sure they are „set in stone“. Our newest AER paper on how and why are weak resolutions about risk-taking harmful for your utility: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I disagree here. The papers are interesting as @aleximas.bsky.social has pointed out (bsky.app/profile/alex...), but differences in elicitation producing preference reversals predates Prospect Theory. If you don't know Lichtenstein & Slovic (1971) and Grether and Plott (1979), read below.

Super useful link to find good follows bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

👇 As part of our Berlin-wide cooperation, we are looking to fill 2 multi-year postdoc positions at Humboldt U, at least one of them in behavioral economics. Come work with us! (Berlin ... behavioral ... it's serious but won't even feel like work...) #EconJobmarket #EconSky