INVITATION
The WU Gutmann Center cordially invites you to the forthcoming
WU GUTMANN CENTER PUBLIC LECTURE
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Date: June 14 (Tuesday), 2016 4:00 pm
Location: Bank Gutmann, Schwarzenbergplatz 16, A-1010 Vienna
Speaker: Prof. Terrance Odean
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/odean/
Title: "Unrecognized Risk Taking in Financial Markets"
Abstract
Risk-taking is an essential activity in financial markets. Standard models assume that economic agents pay attention to all relevant information, are unbiased in their assessment of risk, and dispassionately match the risks they take to consistent preferences. In practice, however, investors have limited attention, display persistent biases when assessing risk, and have inconsistent preferences. Furthermore, risk-taking is influenced by emotions. Thus investors often take risks that they neither recognize nor intend to take. Those who rely on mathematical models may actually be more, not less, prone to unintended risk-taking.
About Terrance Odean
Terrance Odean is the Rudd Family Foundation Professor and Chair of the Finance Group at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Journal of Investment Consulting editorial advisory board, of the Russell Sage Behavioral Economics Roundtable, of the WU Gutmann Center Academic Advisory Board at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is a Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist. He has been an editor and an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, a co-editor of a special issue of Management Science, an associate editor at the Journal of Behavioral Finance, a director of UC Berkeley's Experimental Social Science Laboratory, a member of the Russell Investments Academic Advisory Board, a visiting professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and the Willis H. Booth Professor of Finance and Banking. As an undergraduate at Berkeley, Odean studied Judgment and Decision Making with the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Daniel Kahneman. This led to his current research focus on how psychologically motivated decisions affect investor welfare and securities prices.
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Phone: +43-1-31336-5238
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WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics
Sabina Krickl
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INVITATION
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We are pleased to invite you to our next Investment Talk, organized by the Spängler IQAM Research Center. The Center is a joint initiative of TU Vienna (Vienna University of Technology) and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business supported by Spängler IQAM Invest and provides a platform for exchange in the field of asset management between academics, practitioners and the public.
INVESTMENT TALK
Date: Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 at 4 pm
Speaker: SHERIDAN TITMAN
Topic: "Stock Return Predictability"
ABSTRACT:
Stock returns have exhibited substantial cross-sectional predictability over the past 50 years. In addition to relatively short-term predictability that relates to return reversals and momentum, there is strong evidence of longer-term predictability that relates to firm fundamentals, like value, profitability and asset growth. There are three possible explanations for this evidence of long-term cross-sectional predictability. The first is that the observed return premiums are compensation for systematic risk, the second is that these observations are the product of data mining, and the third is that investors made a mistake about a systematic source of risk. Our analysis supports the third explanation and identifies a particular source of a mistake that relates to the perceived innovation climate, which influences both the creation and destruction of businesses.
SHERIDAN TITMAN
holds the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Sheridan was a Professor at UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Boston College and spent the 1988-89 academic year in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Sheridan's academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, energy finance, real estate finance and urban economics. He has also co-authored three finance textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions, and Financial Management: Principles and Applications. He won the Smith-Breeden best paper award for the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship. Sheridan has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies and has served as President of both the Western Finance Association and the American Finance Association and has served as a Director of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association and the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He is currently the Vice President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Sheridan has a B.S. from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
REGISTRATION is required. We kindly ask to register before June 8th at si-researchcenter(a)wu.ac.at
LOCATION:
TU Wien
BA Chemie Hochhaus, Entrance 10, 11th upper floor, TUtheSky - Conference room
1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9
PARKING FACILITIES: Wipark Operngasse 13 or Wipark Lehargasse 4.
Public transport:
U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz (5 minutes walking distance)
U2 Museumsquartier
57A Getreidemarkt
TU building plan: http://www.si-researchcenter.at/events/investment-talk
Contact and further information:
WU, Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance , attn. Martina Schlichting, 1020 Vienna, Welthandelsplatz 1, Building D4, Level 4
Phone: +43 1 31336 6315
Mail: si-researchcenter(a)wu.ac.at, web: www.si-researchcenter.at