Presentation Slides for American Finance Association 2020 Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance

Abstract

This document contains presentation slides for the American Finance Association's Presidential Address of January 4, 2020. The address is based on the paper "Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance."

The paper: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3550880

Transcript of the talk with integrated slides: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3513201

Keywords: social transmission bias, social economics, social finance, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, social networks, social learning, information percolation, biased percolation, epidemiology, visibility bias, self-enhancing transmission bias, simplistic thinking, memes, cultural evolution

JEL Classification: A10, D03, D1, D21, D60, D84, D85, D91, G00, G02, G1, G11, G12, G14, G3, K00, M2, M21, M4, Z1, Z10, Z