2017 Conference Details
Conference on Household Finance
February 24, 2017
NYU Stern School of Business
44 W 4th Street
New York, New York
Organizer: Johannes Stroebel
February 24, 2017
NYU Stern School of Business
44 W 4th Street
New York, New York
Organizer: Johannes Stroebel
| 8:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:50 | Welcome Remarks | |
| 9:00 | Presentation 1 | The Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Credit: Evidence from Random Assignment of 54,522 Credit Lines Presenter: Deniz Aydin (Washington University Olin) Discussant: Jialan Wang (UIUC) |
| 9:45 | Presentation 2 | Loan Contracting in the Presence of Usury Limits: Evidence from Automobile Lending Presenter: Brian Melzer (Northwestern Kellogg) Discussant: Andres Liberman (NYU Stern) |
| 10:30 | Refreshment Break | |
| 11:00 | Presentation 3 | Bad Credit, No Problem? Credit and Labor Market Consequences of Bad Credit Reports Presenter: Will Dobbie (Princeton University) Discussant: Kyle Herkenhoff (University of Minnesota) |
| 11:45 | Presentation 4 | Credit Constraints and Search Frictions in Consumer Credit Markets Presenter: Christopher Palmer (Berkeley Haas) Discussant: Neale Mahoney (Chicago Booth) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:50 | Job Market Session | Presentations by current job market candidates (Talks 20mins, 5 min Q&A) The Effect of Debt on Default and Consumption: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession Presenter: Pascal Noel (Harvard University) Selective Attention in Consumer Finance: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in the Credit Card Market Presenter: Paolina Medina (Northwestern Kellogg) Idiosyncratic Risk in Housing Markets Presenter: Marco Giacoletti (Stanford University) Why Do Federal Loans Crowd Out the Private Market? Evidence from Graduate PLUS Loans Presenter: Monica Bhole (Stanford University) |
| 3:30 | Refreshment Break | |
| 4:00 | Presentation 5 | Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards Presenter: Benjamin Keys (Wharton) Discussant: Sumit Agarwal (Georgetown University) |
| 4:45 | Presentation 6 | Stock Market Returns and Consumption Presenters: Amir Kermani and Marco DiMaggio (Berkeley Haas and Harvard Business School) Discussant: Michaela Pagel (Columbia Business School) |
REGISTRATION DETAILS Attendance is free of charge but places are strictly limited and so registration is required. To register, please send an email to salomon@stern.nyu.edu before February 16, 2017 |