Looking forward to seeing these and many other conversations highlighted in the inaugural issue of Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives

On AI more broadly, expectations seem remarkably dispersed. One view I found especially helpful (hat off to Dacheng Xiu): GenAI as a prior(!) for human reasoning. This is arguably the first time in history that evidence-based priors are broadly available.

I was particularly struck by papers that use AI tools to examine high-dimensional behavioral primitives (shout out to Suproteem Sarkar), methods that genuinely expand what we can learn not just how fast we can learn it.

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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Concerns About Layoffs and CEO Pay Dominate Shareholder Preferences - ProMarket A new study by Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver G. Spalt finds that Americans often prioritize moral values over financial gains when evaluating corporate decisions. The research highlight...

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.

Helsinki Finance Summit | Aalto University The 13th Helsinki Finance Summit on Investor Behavior will be organized on August 18-19, 2025.

Have a paper on investor behavior? Submit to the Helsinki Finance Summit on August 18-19th. Submission deadline is March 9th.
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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.

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

Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field (January 2025) - We document a robust dynamic inconsistency in risky choice. Using a unique brokerage dataset and a series of experiments, we compare people's initial risk-taking plans to their subseq...

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.

Hi Lionel, thank you for creating this pack, very helpful! Could you add me, please?

Thank you for creating this list! Could you add me as well?

Super useful link to find good follows

bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

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Wow! And that’s another comparison that I will definitely highlight in my class. Everyone knows Akerlof… I mean, my son’s pre-K teacher knows of Akerlof conceptually. But PT is exotic even on PhD level. What gives?!

Thanks for pointing it out! I am definitely including the ranking when I talk about prospect theory in my PhD class from now on.

Without looking I would have guessed Akerlof 1970 QJE and Markowitz 1952 JF