Rohan Ganduri is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Title: Patient-Centric Clinical Trial Design Abstract: Clinical trials are critical for advancing medical knowledge about the safety and efficacy of new drugs and treatments. However, traditional clinical trial designs have often prioritized the research objectives of investigators, with limited consideration of patient behavior in both enrollment and treatment selection. This seminar will present a series of Bayesian dynamic programming techniques developed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of patient decision-making processes.

"Exaptation in numerical cognition and implications for the anchoring and adjustment heuristic”. ABSTRACT We present evidence for the existence of numerical landmarks and the impact they have on numerical cognition, with particular emphasis on resolving a debate in the literature regarding the anchoring and adjustment (A&A) heuristic. Specifically, some theorists have argued that phenomena resulting from the A&A heuristic are due to insufficient adjustment while others have argued for the phenomena resulting from biased construction. We present an alternative account based on the notion of numerical cognition being exapted from earlier, more ancient brain circuitry. 

Daniel Andrei is an Associate Professor of Finance at McGill Desautels Faculty of Management.

Anna Cieslak is an Associate Professor of Finance at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Kai Li is a Professor of Finance at UBC Sauder School of Business.