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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Household Finance Meeting

Brigitte C. Madrian and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers

July 19-20, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 19

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
Sparse Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations

Discussant: Alp Simsek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


10:00 am


Break


10:30 am


Andreas Fuster, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
Payment Size, Negative Equity, and Mortgage Default

Discussant: Brian T. Melzer, Northwestern University


11:30 am


Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago and NBER
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Advertising Expensive Mortgages

Discussant:
Justine S. Hastings, Brown University and NBER


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


John Y. Campbell, Harvard University and NBER
Tarun Ramadorai, University of Oxford
Benjamin Ranish, Harvard University
Getting Better: Learning to Invest in an Emerging Stock Market

Discussant:
Enrichetta Ravina, Columbia University


2:30 pm


Camelia M. Kuhnen, Northwestern University
Asymmetric Learning from Financial Information

Discussant:
Cary Frydman, University of Southern California


3:30 pm


Break


4:00 pm


Dean Karlan, Yale University and NBER
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico

Discussant: J
ohn Beshears, Harvard University and NBER


5:00 pm


Adjourn

6:30 pm

Dinner at Bambara in the Hotel Marlowe


Saturday, July 20


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Daniel Gottlieb, University of Pennsylvania
Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Narrow Framing and Life Insurance

Discussant:
Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER


10:00 am


Break


10:30 am


Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
John N. Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
Soren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Tore Olsen, Harvard University
Torben Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

Discussant:
James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER


11:30 am


Will Dobbie, Harvard University
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
Debt Relief and Debtor Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Consumer Bankruptcy Protection

Discussant:
Benjamin Keys, University of Chicago


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Bill Skimmyhorn, United States Military Academy
Assessing Financial Education: Evidence from a Personal Financial Management Course

Discussant:
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


2:30 pm


Panel on International Household Finance Data

Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank
Dimitris Georgarakos, Goethe University Frankfurt
John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board and University of Maryland


3:30 pm


Adjourn