Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance
2025 Behavioral Finance and Accounting Conference

Date: Friday, May 16th
Location: DePaul Center (1 E. Jackson Blvd), Room 8005

8:30m-9:00am – Breakfast

9:00am-9:45am

Presenter: Chen Wang (University of Notre Dame), Categorical Thinking about Interest Rates
Discussant: Charles G. Nathanson (Northwestern University)

9:45am-10:30am

Presenter: Karneisha Wolfe (UIUC), Do as I Do or I’ll Judge You: The Effects of Core Audit Teams’ Review of Centralized Audit Teams’ Work
Discussant: Lori Bhaskar (Indiana University)

10:30am-10:45am - Break

10:45am-11:30am

Presenter: Quoc Nguyen (DePaul University), Moving Targets
Discussant: Dmitriy Muravyev (UIUC)

11:30am-12:15pm

Presenter: Julia Ariel-Rohr (DePaul University), The Role of Internal Auditors’ Nonconformity and Responsibility Deflection on Managers’ Judgments in a Corporate Governance Setting
Discussant: Kathryn Holmstrom (Iowa State University)

12:15pm-1:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm-2:15pm

Presenter: Leland Bybee (University of Chicago), The Ghost in the Machine: Generating Beliefs with Large Language Models
Discussant: Chukwuma Dim (George Washington University)

2:15pm-3:00pm

Presenter: Ivy Feng (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mortgage Lenders’ Diversity Policies and Mortgage Lending to Minorities
Discussant: Deonette Lambert (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance
2024 Behavioral Finance and Accounting Conference

Date: Friday, May 3rd
Location: University Club of Chicago (76 E. Monroe)

8:15am-9:00am - Breakfast

9:00am-10:00am - Keynote speech: George Wu (University of Chicago)

10:10am-10:15am - Break

10:15am-11:00am

Presenter: Michael Weber (University of Chicago), “Memory & Beliefs: Evidence from the Field”
Discussant: Enrichetta Ravina (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

11:00am-11:15am - Break

11:15am-12:00pm

Presenter: Bright Hong (DePaul University), “Incentivizing Judgment and Decision-making: A Framing Effect”
Discussant: Dan Zhou (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

12:00pm-1:45pm - Lunch

1:45pm-2:30pm

Presenter: Peter Kelly (University of Notre Dame), “Motivated Beliefs in Macroeconomic Expectations”
Discussant: Ehsan Azarmsa (University of Illinois Chicago)

2:30pm-2:45pm - Break

2:45pm--3:30pm

Presenter: Deni Cikurel (DePaul University), “How Does Investors’ Perceived Ease of Information Access Affect Their Investment Judgments?”
Discussant: Ashley Sauciuc (Indiana University)