CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series

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CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series

The CEPR Network on Household Finance is launching a new online seminar series on Household Finance. The series is currently run by Cristian Badarinza (National University of Singapore) and Vimal Balasubramaniam (Queen Mary University of London). We meet once a fortnight on Friday (CEST/CET 15:00) on Zoom. This is structured like a regular seminar, with light-touch moderation and opportunities to ask questions during the presentation. The Zoom link to each seminar will be made available on email, one hour before the session.

We are excited to announce the first set of talks in the CEPR Household Finance Seminar series:  

• Friday 10 July 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

    Speaker: Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn and CEPR) 

    Co-Authors: Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn and CEPR), Ulrike Steins (University of Bonn) and Alina Bartscher (University of Bonn)

    Paper Title: Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016

• Friday 24 July 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: Pascal Noel (University of Chicago), Peter Ganong (University of Chicago and NBER), Damon Jones (University of Chicago and NBER), Diana Farrell (JPMorgan Chase Institute), Fiona Greig (JPMorgan Chase Institute), Chris Wheat (JPMorgan Chase Institute)

  Paper Title: Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks

• Friday 7 August 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: Francesco D'Acunto (Boston College)

  Paper Title: Identity and Choice under Risk

• Friday 21 August 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College and CEPR), Rajashri Chakrabarti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Andres Liberman (New York University) and Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

  Paper Title: Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

• Friday 4 September 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: Cameron Peng (LSE), Pengjie Gao (University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business), Allen Hu (Yale School of Management), Peter Kelly (University of Notre Dame) and Ning Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF); Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance)

  Paper Title: Exploited by Complexity

• Friday 18 September 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: John Gathergood (University of Nottingham) and Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School and CEPR)

  Paper Title: The Co-holding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data

• Friday 16 October 2020, 3pm-4pm CEST

  Authors: Roine Vestman (Stockholm University and CEPR), Dany Kessel (Sodertorn University (University College of Southern Stockholm); Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)) and Björn Tyrefors (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Stockholm University)

  Paper Title: The Housing Wealth Effect: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

To receive information on how to join each seminar, please sign up to our CEPR Household Finance mailing list by clicking on https://portal.cepr.org/cepr-household-finance-seminar-series. Follow us on twitter (@cepr_org) and visit our webpage https://cepr.org/cepr-household-finance-seminar-series. The network has set up a Google Calendar where information on its activities will be posted. Talks will be regularly updated on the Google Calendar (click to access the Google Calendar and click to access in iCal format).

There is an opportunity for interested potential speakers to submit papers by clicking https://portal.cepr.org/cepr-household-finance-seminar-series. We solicit papers in the following areas, but other related areas are also welcome:

• Asset allocation and debt behaviour over the life cycle
• Financing retirement and the demographic transition
• Consumer indebtedness, financial distress, and default decisions
• Behavioural approaches to household finance
• Financial literacy and financial education programs
• Trust, subjective expectations, pessimism, and financial decisions
• International comparisons of household finances using micro-data
• Financial advice and legal protection of investors and borrowers 
• Financial innovation and household finances
• Households liquidity and risk management 
• Climate change, sustainability, and household finances