Authors, please upload your paper here.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Economics of Household Saving Workshop

 

Erik Hurst and James Poterba, Organizers

 

July 23, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

Saturday, July 23:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Dimitrios Christelis, University of Salerno

 

Dimitris Georgarakos, Goethe University Frankfurt

 

Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II

 

Wealth Shocks, Unemployment Shocks and Consumption in the Wake of the Great Recession

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

10:30 am

Sule Alan, University of Cambridge

 

Tom Crossley, University of Cambridge

 

Hamish Low, University of Cambridge

 

Household Consumption Behaviour in Recessions

 

 

11:30 am

James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Steven Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

David Wise, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Asset Cost of Poor Health

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Adair Morse, University of Chicago

 

Consumption Contagion: Does the Consumption of the Very Rich Drive the Consumption of the Less Rich?

 

 

2:30 pm

Song Han, Federal Reserve Board

 

Benjamin Keys, Federal Reserve Board

 

Geng Li, Federal Reserve Board

 

Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers: Evidence from Credit Card Mailings

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn