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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2012 Economics of Household Saving

Erik Hurst and James Poterba, Organizers

July 21, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles A/B
40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Saturday, July 21:


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER
A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments


9:50 am


Claus Kreiner, University of Copenhagen
David Lassen, University of Copenhagen
Soren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Consumption Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy and the Household Price of Liquidity


10:40 am


Break


11:00 am


Henrik Cronqvist, Claremont McKenna College
Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
The Origins of Savings Behavior


11:50 am

 

Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University
Identifying the Household Consumption Response to Tax Expectations using Bond Prices

12:40 pm

Lunch


1:40 pm


Michal Grinstein-Weiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Sherraden, Washington University in St. Louis
William Gale, Brookings Institution
William Rohe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Schreiner, Washington University in St. Louis
Clinton Key, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership among Baseline Renters: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment


2:30 pm


Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University and NBER
Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice


3:20 pm


Wrap-Up Discussion


3:30 pm


Adjourn