# 2018 Conference Details

**Conference on Household Finance**

May 4, 2018
NYU Stern School of Business
44 W 4th Street
New York, New York

Organizers: Johannes Stroebel, NYU Stern School of Business
Anthony Lynch, NYU Stern School of Busines

8:00-8:40 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:40-9:20 Anthony DeFusco, Kellogg School of Management
["No Job, No Money, No Refi: Frictions to Refinancing in a Recession"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/DeFuscoMondragon2018.pdf)

9:20-10:00 Peter Ganong, University of Chicago
["The Effect of Debt on Default and Consumption: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/ganong_noel_housing.pdf)

10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break

10:30-11:10 Marco di Maggio, Harvard Business School
"Fintech Borrowers: Under-served or Over-leveraged?"

11:10-11:50 Theresa Kuchler, NYU Stern School of Business
"Peer Effects in Product Adoption"

11:50-12:10 Refreshment Break

12:10-12:50 Adam Guren, Boston University
["Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/gmns_longview.pdf)

12:50-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:20 Job Candidate Session I (Talks 20mins, 5 min Q&A)
Ankit Kalda, Washington University in St. Louis
["Peer Financial Distress and Household Leverage: Evidence from 30 Million Individuals"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Kalda_03312018.pdf)
Adam Jorring, University of Chicago
["The Costs of Financial Mistakes: Evidence from U.S. Consumers"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Jorring_JMP-1.pdf)

2:20-2:45 Refreshment Break

2:45-4:00 Job Candidate Session II (Talks 20mins, 5 min Q&A)
W. Ben McCartney, Duke University
["Household Financial Distress and Voter Participation"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/wbenmcc_jmp_2.pdf)
Scott Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
["Private Information and Price Regulation in the US Credit Card Market" ](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/JMP_20180126-1_0.pdf)
Emil Verner, Princeton University
["Household Debt Revaluation and the Real Economy: Evidence from a Foreign Currency Debt Crisis"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/JMP-1_Verner.pdf)

4:00-4:20 Refreshment Break

4:20-5:00 Natalie Cox, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
"Are Student Borrowers Credit Constrained or Behavioral? Evidence from the Expansion of Federal Loan Limits"

5:00-5:40 David Matsa, Kellogg School of Management
["Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis"](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/BrownMatsa_170726.pdf)

Attendance is free of charge but places are strictly limited and so registration is required.