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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

Household Finance Group Meeting

 

Brigitte Madrian, Nicholas Souleles, and Peter Tufano, Organizers

 

 

 

October 8, 2010

 

 

 

Hotel Marlowe

 

25 Edwin Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

Preliminary Program

 

Thursday, October 7:

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner – Bambara Restaurant, Hotel Marlowe

Friday, October 8:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Introduction

 

 

9:00 am

Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania

 

Shawn Cole, Harvard University

 

Shayak Sarkar, Harvard University

 

Bad Advice: Explaining the Persistence of Whole Life Insurance

 

 

 

Discussant:  Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Itzhak Ben-David, Ohio State University

 

Souphala Chomsisengphet, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

 

Douglas Evanoff, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Market-Based Loss Mitigation Practices for Troubled Mortgages Following the Financial Crisis

 

 

Discussant:  Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

11:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:20 am

Daniel Cooper, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

Home Equity Borrowing and Household Behavior in the 2000s

 

 

 

Discussant:  Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:20 pm

Lunch and Discussion: Research and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

 

Panelists:

 

Jane Dokko, Federal Reserve Board

 

Howell Jackson, Harvard University

 

Signe-Mary McKernan, The Urban Institute

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:40 pm

Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University

 

C. Lockwood Reynolds, Kent State University

 

The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom

 

 

 

Discussant:  Bridget Long, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:40 pm 

Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania

 

Hoikwang Kim, University of Pennsylvania

 

The Impact of Shrouded Fees: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market

 

 

Discussant:  Justine Hastings, Yale University and NBER

4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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