SI 2020 Household Finance

Adair Morse, Johannes Stroebel, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers

July 17-18, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 17
10:30 am

Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice. (slides)
Discussant: Shan Ge, New York University
11:15 am

Exploited by Complexity (slides)
Discussant: Claire Celerier, University of Toronto
12:15 pm
Using New Real-Time Data Sources to Understand the Impacts of COVID-19 and Economic Policy" (background paper) (slides)
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm
Panel Discussion: COVID-19 and Household Finance
Scott Baker, Northwestern University and NBER (background paper) (slides)
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen (background paper) (slides)
Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER (background paper) (slides)
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (slides)
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER (background paper)
Moderator: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending
Discussant: Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
2:45 pm

Financial Crisis, Creditor-Debtor Conflict, and Populism (slides)
Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
3:30 pm
Happy hour
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, July 18
10:30 am

Social Collateral
Discussant: Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
11:15 am

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
Discussant: Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington
12:45 pm
Panel Discussion: Discrimination in Consumer Lending
Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile
Laura Blattner, Stanford University
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University
Jann Spiess, Stanford University
Adair Morse, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Moderator: Makada Henry-Nickie, Brookings Institution
2:00 pm

Wealth Fluctuations and Risk Preferences: Evidence from U.S. Investor Portfolios
Discussant: João F. Cocco, London Business School
2:45 pm

Second Chance: Life without Student Debt
Discussant: Natalie Cox, Princeton University
3:30 pm
Happy hour (format TBA)
4:00 pm
Adjourn