SI 2019 Household Finance

Adair Morse, Christopher Tonetti, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers

July 19-20, 2019

Charles Suites

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Adam Looney, University of Utah
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER

The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles
Discussant: Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Mi Luo, Peking University
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Assets and Job Choice: Student Debt, Wages and Job Satisfaction
Discussant: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER
11:30 am
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER
Adam Szeidl, Central European University

Direct and Indirect Effects of Financial Access on SMEs
Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Claudia Robles Garcia, Stanford University

Competition and Incentives in Mortgage Markets: The Role of Brokers
Discussant: Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers
Discussant: Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Joao Cocco, London Business School
Francisco Gomes, London Business School
Paula Lopes, London School of Economics

Evidence on Expectations of Household Finances
Discussant: Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Christine Parlour, University of California at Berkeley
Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
Haoxiang Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

FinTech Disruption, Payment Data, and Bank Information
Discussant: Cecilia Parlatore, New York University and NBER
9:30 am
Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Georgetown University
Natasha Sarin, Yale University

Price Regulation in Two-Sided Markets: Empirical Evidence from Debit Cards
Discussant: Andres Liberman, New York University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford University and NBER
Alberto Sepulveda, SBIF

Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access
Discussant: Daniel Grodzicki, Pennsylvania State University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Gajendran Raveendranathan, McMaster University

Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
Discussant: Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley
2:00 pm
Li An, Tsinghua University
Jiangze Bian, University of International Business and Economics
Dong Lou, London School of Economics
Donghui Shi, Shanghai Stock Exchange

Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes
Discussant: Niels Joachim Gormsen, University of Chicago and NBER
3:00 pm
Adjourn