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“The Benefits of Access: Evidence from Private Meetings” by Hannes Wagner, accepted at Journal of Finance

We use large language models to analyze the content of 4,700 private meetings between a large active asset manager and its portfolio firms. The high-level meetings convey mostly soft information about the firm, and little about industry or market.

“How People Use Statistics” by Nicola Gennaioli, accepted at Review of Economic Studies

We document two new facts about the distributions of answers in famous statistical problems: they are i) multi-modal and ii) unstable with respect to irrelevant changes in the problem.

Alireza Aghaee wins EFA Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Prize 2024

Winner, EFA Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Prize 2024 for his paper “The Flattening Demand Curve”. The award was presented at the European Finance Association Meeting 2024, in Bratislava.

Sara Staffolani wins ECSO-CMS 2024 Runner-Up Best Student Paper

Runner-Up, ECSO-CMS 2024 Best Student Paper her paper “American Options With Acceleration Clauses”. The award was presented at the European Conference on Stochastic Optimization and Computational Management Science 2024, in Stockholm.

“Investor Memory” by Katrin Gödker, accepted at Review of Financial Studies

We provide experimental evidence of a positive memory bias which affects individuals' beliefs, decisions to reinvest, and overconfidence in the stock market.