NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Household Finance Workshop

 

Organizers: Brigitte Madrian, Nicholas Souleles, and Peter Tufano

 

July 22, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suite

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Wei Jiang, Columbia University

 

Ashlyn Nelson, Indiana University

 

Edward Vytlacil, Yale University

 

Securitization and Loan Performance: A Contrast of Ex Ante and Ex Post Relations in the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  Atif Mian, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Arpit Gupta, Edward Morrison, and Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

 

Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

 

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

 

 

 

Discussant: Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Andreas Fuster, Harvard University

 

Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets

 

 

 

Discussant:  Robert Shiller, Yale University and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Tal Gross, University of Miami

 

Matthew Notowidigdo, MIT

 

Health Insurance and the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision: Evidence from Medicaid Expansions

 

 

 

Discussant: Jeremy Tobacman, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Viktar Fedaseyeu, Boston College

 

Debt Collection Agencies and the Supply of Consumer Credit

 

 

 

Discussant: Robert Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

3:30 pm

Diane Del Guercio, University of Oregon

 

Jonathan Reuter, Boston College and NBER

 

Paula Tkac, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

 

Demand for Financial Advice, Broker Incentives, and Mutual Fund Market Segmentation

 

 

 

Discussant: Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

 

4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/25/10