Events

Future events

The next event organised by the Network is the Fourth European Workshop on Household Finance. It will take place in Lund, Sweden, at Skissernas Museum on 10-11 May 2019. The conference will be preceded by a TFI-CEPR event organized by Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh) in collaboration with Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College Business School). The joint event with the Think Forward initiative will take place on the evening of 9 May. 

The programme for the event will be announced soon. Please check the event webpage for updates. 

The Network will be organising the next CEPR European Conference in Household Finance in Rhodes, Greece on the 20-22 September 2019. Stay tuned for updates.

The TFI-CEPR event that will precede the conference on the evening of 21 September is to be organized by Amit Seru (Stanford University) in collaboration with Andreas Fuster (Swiss National Bank). 

Past events

The Third European Workshop on Household Finance took place in London at Imperial College Business School on the 11 and 12 May 2018. The event included six sessions and thirteen papers. Several topics relevant to household finance were discussed: intergenerational correlation in portfolio choice, peer effects in stock market participation, return of investment in higher education, effects of financial regulation on entrepreneurship, the link between financial innovation and asset allocation, the effects of machine learning on credit markets, the role of trust in online lending, gender and agency within the household, and others. 

For more details and to access the conference papers, please visit the event webpage. 

With the support of the Think Forward Initiative, for the third time, a prize for the best  PhD paper in household finance was awarded. The winner was Stephanie Johnson (Northwestern University) for her paper “Are Mortgage Regulations Affecting Entrepreneurship?”. 

Additionally, the Network Director, Michael Haliassos, received a commemorative plaque in recognition of his dedication to the CEPR Network on Household Finance. Prof Haliassos was unanimously reelected CEPR Household Finance Network Director for another term at the biannual Network Steering Committee Meeting. 

Preceding the workshop, a CEPR-TFI event took place on 10 May 2019: Big Data – Promises and Pitfalls for Consumers and the Finance Industry: Views from Practitioners and Academics. 

The speakers discussed the frontier of data analytics and product design in the digital economy and consumer finance; the challenges to data privacy, and how to build trust with customers; as well as the role regulation and technology can play in protecting consumers while fostering innovation and competition. 

Keynote speaker for the event was Ms Suzanne Frey, Director of Google Apps Security, Trust, Compliance, and Privacy. 

The 2018 European Conference on Household Finance was held at Ortygia Business School in Sicily, Italy on 5-6 October 2018. 

The conference included four sessions and thirteen papers. Among others, the discussed topics included the drivers of wealth accumulation, expectations formation, and their implications for individual and policy outcomes like consumption, financial asset behaviour, and indebtedness. 
The recap of the event and an overview of the presented papers can be seen here. 

The CEPR-TFI Prize for the best PhD student paper in household finance was awarded to Claudia Robles-Garcia (London School of Economics) for her paper “Experts, Commissions and Market Power: Evidence from UK Mortgage Brokers”. See the interview with Ms Robles-Garcia here.

The conference was preceded by a CEPR-TFI event, Robo Advisers and Consumer Finance: Promises and Risks. The event was organized by Christopher Carroll, Professor of Economics at John Hopkins University. The invited speakers were Dan Egan (Managing Director of Behavioural Finance & Investing at Betterment), Karen Croxson (Head of Research & Deputy Chief Economist at Financial Conduct Authority) and Francesco D’Acunto (Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Management). 

The event was live streamed and a recap can be found on the TFI YouTube channel.