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Brown Bag seminar in Economics | Misperceived Returns to Active Investing with Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss

5/16/2022, 12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss, NHH, presenting "Misperceived Returns to Active Investing: Evidence From a Field Experiment Among Retail Investors". We conduct a field experiment with a sample of retail investors. Treated respondents are 17.4 percentage points more likely to think that index funds will outperform active funds in the future. Our main result is that treated respondents increase the index fund share of their portfolio by 4.6 percentage points (39 percent) relative to control group respondents.

30th Alumni Reunion 2022

5/13/2022, 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Welcome to the joint 30th Alumni Reunion for you who started at SSE in 1990 and 1991!

Seminar in Economics | Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks with Peter Hull

5/11/2022, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Peter Hull, Brown University, presenting "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks". We develop a new approach to estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula, and use this approach to address bias when estimating employment effects of market access growth from Chinese high-speed rail construction.

Public Defense - Emil Bustos

5/10/2022, 1:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Emil Bustos defends his PhD dissertation “Essays on Firms' Hiring, Investment and Risk Management Decisions” on May 10, 2022.