Innovative Data in Household Finance: Opportunities and Challenges
Michaela Pagel, Christopher Tonetti, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers
December 4, 2020
Supported by supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Vanguard
| Friday, December 4 | ||
| 10:00 am | Welcome and introductions | |
| 10:05 am | Paper session I: Innovative data use, examples from current research | |
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Measuring Customer Churn and Interconnectedness |
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Testing Models of Economic Discrimination Using the Discretionary Markup of Indirect Auto Loans |
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Distributional Effects of Payment Card Pricing and Merchant Cost Pass-through in the United States and Canada |
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Local Experiences, Attention and Spillovers in the Housing Market |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:25 am |
Panel session I: Challenges Working with Novel Innovative Data Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore John Friedman, Brown University and NBER Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER Jonathan Parker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
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| 12:25 pm |
Keynote speaker: Diana Farrell, JPMorgan Chase Institute Lessons for Research Practice from the JPMorganChase Institute James Poterba (moderator), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
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| 12:50 pm | Breakout sessions | |
| 1:15 pm | Paper Sesssion II: Make-your-own data, surveys and experiments with private sector data | |
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Effects of Pandemic Unemployment Policies on Consumption, Savings, and Incomes of Workers: Evidence from Linked Survey-Transactions Data |
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Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data |
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The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers |
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Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts |
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| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:25 pm |
Panel Session II: Publishing Household Finance research with innovative data, insights from journal editors John Campbell (moderator), Harvard University and NBER Emi Nakamura (AER), University of California, Berkeley and NBER Tarun Ramadorai (RFS), Imperial College London Greg Kaplan (JPE), University of Chicago and NBER Stefan Nagel (JF), University of Chicago |
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| 3:25 pm | Wrap up | |
| 3:30 pm | Happy hour - breakout sessions | |
| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |