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Program

Thursday, October 22, 2020:		Friday, October 23, 2020:
9am	Welcome speech Prof. Dr. Bannier	9am - 10 am	Keynote speech Prof. Dr. Andersen Professor of Finance Copenhagen Business School
9:10am – 10:40am	Session: Corporate Governance	10am – 10:15am	Coffee break
10:40am – 11am	Coffee break	10:15am – 11:45am	Session: Behavioral Finance - Investor Behavior
11am – 12:30pm	Session: Behavioral Economics	11:45am – 12pm	Best Paper Award Sponsor: Sparkasse Giessen
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch break	12pm – 12:15pm	Closing remarks Prof. Dr. Wöhrmann
1:30pm – 3pm	Session: Behavioral Finance – Institutions	- End of conference -

Sessions

Session: Corporate Governance

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Winker

1. The Market for Corporate Control as a Limit to Short Arbitrage
9:10am – 9:40am
Costanza Meneghetti (Colorado State University), Ryan Williams* (University of Arizona), Steven Chong Xiao (University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Andrej Gill

2. Skills and Sentiment in Sustainable Finance
9:40am – 10:10am
Andreas Brøgger, Alexander Kronies* (Copenhagen Business School)
Discussant: Ryan Williams

3. Borrowing against the (Un)Known: Patent Portfolios and Leverage
10:10am – 10:40am
Andrej Gill* (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), David Heller (Max Planck Institute für Innovation and Competition)
Discussant: Alexander Kronies

Session: Behavioral Economics

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Tillmann

1. Attention Triggers and Investors’ Risk-Taking
11pm – 11:30am
Marc Arnold (University of St. Gallen), Matthias Pelster*(University of Paderborn), Marti G. Subrahmanyam (Stern School of Business, New York University)
Discussant: Tapas Tanmaya Mohapatra

2. Experience-Based Heterogeneity in Expectations and Monetary Policy
11:30am – 12pm
Lucas Radke, Florian Wicknig* (University of Cologne)
Discussant: Matthias Pelster

3. Donald Trump, investor attention and financial markets
12pm – 12:30pm
Monika Gehde-Trapp, Tapas Tanmaya Mohapatra* (University of Hohenheim)
Discussant: Florian Wicknig

Session: Behavioral Finance – Institutions

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Walter

1. When Depositors Read the News - The Impact of Media Coverage on Depositor Behaviour
1:30pm – 2pm
Doron Reichmann*, Nico Lempsch (Ruhr University Bochum)
Discussant: Mikael Paaso

2. CFO Overconfidence, Gender, and Shareholder Activism
2pm – 2:30pm
Nicolas Schreiber*, Dirk Schiereck (Technical University Darmstadt)
Discussant: Doron Reichmann

3. Trust in Finance and Consumer FinTech Adoption
2:30pm – 3pm
Deniz Okat (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Mikael Paaso* (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Vesa Pursiainen (The University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Nicolas Schreiber

Session: Behavioral Finance - Investor Behavior

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Bannier

1. Stock Repurchasing Bias of Mutual Funds
10:15am – 10:45am
Mengqiao Du*, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi (University of Mannheim), Terrance Odean (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Tobias Lauter

2. A Surprise That Keeps You Awake: Overnight Returns After Earnings Announcements
10:45am – 11:15am
Fabian Gamm* (University of Mannheim)
Discussant: Mengqiao Du

3. Conscientiousness and Performance: The Influence of Personality on Investment Decisions
11:15am – 11:45am
Tobias Lauter* (Leibniz University Hannover), Marcel Prokopczuk (Leibniz University Hannover), Stefan Trück (Macquarie University)
Discussant: Fabian Gamm

Conference Committees

Scientific Committee

Prof Dr Christina E. Bannier
Prof Dr Corinna Ewelt-Knauer
Prof Dr Peter Tillmann
Prof Dr Andreas Walter
Prof Dr Peter Winker
Prof Dr Arnt Wöhrmann

Organizing Committee

Prof Dr Christina E. Bannier
David Finck
Kim J. Heyden
Dr Thomas Heyden
Björn Rock
Darwin Semmler

Keynote Speech

The keynote speech was given by Prof Steffen Andersen (Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School).

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