Leeds Business Insights - Seattle

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

6:00 – 8:00pm MDT
$15 registration fee
Appetizers & drinks will be provided

Madison Centre
920 5th Ave.,
Seattle, WA 98104

Program overview
6:00pm: Registration and networking
6:30pm: Program begins
7:30pm: Networking continues

How and for whom does the progress bias limit success?

Dr. Margaret (Meg) C. Campbell, Provost Professor

While consumers spend time and attention on setting and trying to reach goals, they are surprisingly poor at achieving important goals, such as getting to a healthy weight or saving for a comfortable retirement.

Dr. Campbell will share her research on “the progress bias,” the type of consumer who is more likely to have the bias, and how this bias interferes with success goal pursuit.
Margaret Campbell Leeds Business Insights

Disaster on the Horizon: The Price Effect of Sea Level Rise

Dr. Ryan Lewis, Assistant Professor of Finance

If emissions are not curbed, NOAA projections indicate that over one trillion dollars of coastal residential real estate will experience daily tidal flooding by 2100. Are homebuyers aware of sea level rise (SLR) risk and do they demand a discount for facing it?

Dr. Lewis’ research finds that, all else equal, houses exposed to future SLR risk trade at a lower price today.
Ryan Lewis Leeds Business Insights

Can you teach consumers to be good with their money?

Dr. John G. Lynch, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, CU Distinguished Professor

Americans are shockingly ignorant of the most basic financial facts, like how compound interest affects savings accumulation and the paying down of debt, and what diversification does in investing.

Dr. Lynch shares surprising answers about the effects of financial education and financial literacy on consumers’ financial behavior.
John Lynch Leeds Business Insights