SI 2024 Household Finance

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Adair Morse, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers

July 18-19, 2024

Parkview

Single-paper sessions with discussants: authors (20 minutes), discussant (10 minutes), general discussion (15 minutes) Lightning round session: authors (12 minutes per paper), general discussion (8 minutes per paper) Panel session: authors (15 minutes per paper), moderator (8 min), general discussion (22 minutes overall)

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:55 am
Introduction
9:00 am

Non-Payment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market
Discussant: Brian J. Asquith, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
9:45 am

Rent Guarantee Insurance
Discussant: Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias
Discussant: Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am

Asset Demand of U.S. Households
Discussant: William F. Diamond, University of Wisconsin - Madison
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Auto Loan Panel

Moderator: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER
1:30 pm

Auto Finance in the Electric Vehicle Transition
2:00 pm

Financing the Global Shift to Electric Mobility
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Costs of Financial Fraud Victimization
Discussant: Claire Celerier, University of Toronto
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Did Pandemic Relief Fraud Inflate House Prices?
Discussant: Andra C. Ghent, University of Utah
4:30 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Room DE
Friday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am

Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma
Discussant: Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Searching with Inaccurate Priors in Consumer Credit Markets
Discussant: John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Household Debt Relief and the Debt Laffer Curve
Discussant: Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am

Extreme Wildfires, Distant Air Pollution, and Household Financial Health
Discussant: Shan Ge, New York University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Parkview
 Lightning Session
1:30 pm

Partial Homeownership: A Quantitative Analysis
1:50 pm

Monetary Policy Transmission Through Online Banks
2:10 pm

To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments (slides)
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions
Discussant: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER
3:30 pm
Adjourn