Upcoming event: RAND Behavioral Finance Forum 2017

RAND Behavioral Finance Forum 2017

Promoting Consumer Competence in Financial Decision-Making

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. ET

Location:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
901 E Conference Center
901 E Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

The RAND Behavioral Finance (BeFi) Forum brings together academic, financial, and government leaders to share cutting-edge behavioral research in financial decision making and related topics through an annual conference and webinar series.

This year's forum will focus on financial decision-making as it relates to aging, debt and credit, retirement planning, and investments and disclosure. Presentations include a mix of studies from academics, policy makers, and industry working to better understand financial decisions.

BeFi Forum Program

Agenda is subject to change. All times are Eastern.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

WELCOME

RAND Corporation and the Pew Charitable Trusts

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.

Aging and Decision-Making Competence
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Leeds University Business School

BREAK

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

SESSION I

Using Behavioral Insights to Support Retirement Planning

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.

Costly Zero Bias in Target Retirement Fund Choice
Xiao Liu, New York University

A Community Based Randomized Controlled Trial on an Educational Intervention “YoPlaneoMiRetiro” to Promote Retirement Saving Among Hispanics
Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University

Improving engagement with pension decisions: evidence from a randomised controlled trial
Elisabeth Costa, The Behavioral Insights Team

BREAK

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.

LUNCH SPEAKER

12:15 - 1:00 p.m.

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
Brigitte Madrian, Harvard Kennedy School

SESSION II

Consumer Credit Behavior

1:00 - 2:15 p.m.

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
Martin Kanz, World Bank

Do Prize-Linked Incentives Promote Positive Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Debt Reduction Intervention
Jeremy Burke University of Southern California

Don't Watch Me Read: Effects of Mandatory Waiting Periods and Observer Presence on Consumer Responses to Disclosures
Alycia Chin, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

BREAK

2:15 - 2:30 p.m.

SESSION III

Providing Information to Investors

2:30 - 3:45 p.m.

Does Changing How Fees Are Displayed Nudge Investors Away From Overpriced Index ETFs?: Evidence from Two Experiments
Ray Sin, Morningstar, Inc.

Can Financial Disclosures Be More Effective If They Are Interactive?
TBD, New York University

Learning and Confirmation Bias: How First Impressions and Ambiguous Signals Influence Perceptions of Financial Ad
Julie Agnew, College of William and Mary

BREAK

3:45 - 4:00 p.m.

SESSION IV

The Impact of Peers on Financial Decisions

4:00 - 5:15 p.m.

Peer Advice on Financial Decisions: A case of the blind leading the blind?
Sandro Ambuehl, University of Toronto

Raising Anchor for Behavioral Interventions: Evidence in Favor of Peer Effects
Pieter Verhallen, Maastricht University

Prompting Savings Behavior through Social Comparison
Martina Raue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CLOSING REMARKS

5:15 p.m.

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