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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Household Finance Group Meeting

Nicholas Souleles and Peter Tufano, Organizers

 

October 16, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, October 15

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner 

 

Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Boulevard

 

 

Friday, October 16:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Introduction

 

 

9:00 am

TOMASZ PISKORSKI, Columbia University

 

AMIT SERU, University of Chicago

 

VIKRANT VIG, London Business School

 

Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

 

 

 

Discussant: ANDREAS LEHNERT, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

SUSAN E. WOODWARD, Sand Hill Econometrics

 

ROBERT E. HALL, Stanford University, and NBER

 

The Equilibrium Distribution of Prices Paid by Imperfectly Informed Customers: Theory, and Evidence from the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  ANDREW HAUGHWOUT, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

11:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:20 am

MOTOHIRO YOGO, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets

 

 

 

Discussant: STEPHEN ZELDES, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

12:20 pm

Lunch 

 

 

1:20 pm

BRUCE IAN CARLIN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

SIMON GERVAIS, Duke University

 

Legal Protection in Retail Financial Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: HOWELL JACKSON, Harvard University

 

 

2:20 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:40 pm

SHAWN COLE, Harvard University

 

XAVIER GINÉ, World Bank

 

JEREMY TOBACMAN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

PETIA TOPALOVA, IMF

 

ROBERT TOWNSEND, MIT and NBER

 

JAMES VICKERY, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

 

 

 

Discussant: DEAN KARLAN, Yale University

 

 

3:40 pm 

MARIANNE BERTRAND, University Chicago and NBER

 

ADAIR MORSE, University of Chicago

 

Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing

 

 

 

Discussant: JONATHAN ZINMAN, Dartmouth College

 

 

4:40 pm

Adjourn