CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series

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Registering for the seminar series: You will only need to register once to participate in the whole series. An email with a Zoom link to each seminar will be emailed to you an hour before each seminar. You can suspend or reverse your registration at any time by returning here.

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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 next set of talks in the CEPR Household Finance Seminar series:  

• CEPR Household Finance Calendar

   

  Upcoming Seminars

• Friday 11 December 2020, 3pm-4pm CET

• Speaker: Michaela Pagel (Columbia University and CEPR)

  Co-authors: Scott R. Baker (Northwestern University), R. Farrokhnia (Columbia University), Steffen Meyer (University of Southern Denmark, Danish Finance Institute), Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

  Paper Title: Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments

• Friday 15 January 2021, 3pm-4pm CET

• Speaker: Enrichetta Ravina (Kellogg School of Management; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

  Co-authors: Cheng Luo (Farallon Capital Management), Luis M. Viceira (Harvard Business School - Finance Unit; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  Paper Title: Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News and the Momentum Effect

• Friday 29 January 2021, 3pm-4pm CET

• Speaker: Mark Jansen (University of Utah) 

  Co-authors: Hieu Nguyen (University of Utah) and Amin Shams (Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business)

  Paper Title: Human vs. Machine: Underwriting Decisions in Finance

• Friday 12 February 2021, 3pm-4pm CET

• Speaker: Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara Louisiana State University

  Co-authors: Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration

  Paper Title: Climate Risk Perceptions and Demand for Flood Insurance

• Friday 26 February 2021, 3pm-4pm CET

• Speaker: Paolina Medina (Mays Business School of Texas A&M University)

  Co-authors: Michaela Pagel (Columbia University and CEPR)

  Paper Title: Does Saving Cause Borrowing?

   

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