On August 6, 2019, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Consumer Finance Institute (CFI) hosted a symposium called Neuroeconomics and Financial Decision-Making: Foundations and Applications in New Domains. The goal of the symposium was to enable Bank researchers and other experts to learn about the research methods and findings of this new field and how they can be applied to the study of financial decision-making and core central bank functions.

The symposium brought together experts in the field of neuroeconomics, including Colin F. Camerer, Robert Kirby professor of behavioral finance and economics at the California Institute of Technology; Gregory Samanez-Larkin, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University; Camelia M. Kuhnen, professor of finance at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Vinod Ventrakaman, professor of marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University; and Joseph W. Kable, Baird Term Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania.