SI 2018 Household Finance
Brigitte C. Madrian and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers
July 20-21, 2018
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Friday, July 20 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London Predictably Unequal? The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago Private Information and Price Regulation in the US Credit Card Market
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| 11:30 am |
Cindy Soo, University of Michigan Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER Do Neighborhoods Affect Credit Market Decisions of Low-Income Borrowers? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Giorgia Barboni, Warwick University Parul Agarwal, IFMR-LEAD Knowing What’s Good for You: Can a Repayment Flexibility Option in Microfinance Contracts Improve Repayment Rates and Business Outcomes?
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| 2:30 pm |
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm | Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Serrano Ballroom) | |||
| Saturday, July 21 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Steffen Meyer, Aarhus University Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Fully Closed: Individual Responses to Realized Capital Gains and Losses
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| 9:30 am |
Arpit Gupta, New York University Edward Morrison, Columbia University and NBER Catherine R. Fedorenko, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scott D. Ramsey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Laurent E. Calvet, EDHEC Business School Claire Celerier, University of Toronto Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics Boris Vallee, Harvard University Can Financial Innovation Solve Household Reluctance to Take Risk?
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| 2:00 pm |
Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley Philippe Bracke, Bank of England Joao Cocco, London Business School Garbarino Nicola, Bank of England Housing Affordability and Shared Equity Mortgages
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |||