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 | ||
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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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11:45 | Presentation 4 | "Credit Constraints and Search Frictions in Consumer Credit Markets" Presenter: Chris Palmer (Berkeley Haas) Discussant: Neale Mahoney (Chicago Booth) |
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12:30 | Lunch | ||
1:50 | Job Market Session | Presentations by current job market candidates (Talks 20 mins, 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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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