Salomon Center/BPI Conference on Household Finance
April 26, 2019
NYU Stern School of Business
44 W 4th Street
New York, New York
Organizers:
Johannes Stroebel, NYU Stern School of Business
Theresa Kuchler, NYU Stern School of Busines
Program
8:15-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Welcome Remarks
9:10-9:50 John Mondragon, Northwestern University
"Who Pays for College? The Effect of Liquidity Constraints and Student Loans"
9:50-10:30 Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
"The Consequences of Housing Foreclosure for Owners, Renters, and Landlords"
10:30-10:50 Refreshment Break
10:50-11:30 Jacelly Cespedes, University of Minnesota
"More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms"
11:30-12:10 Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago
"Reducing Barriers to Enrollment in Federal Student Loan Repayment Plans: Evidence from the Navient Field Experiment"
12:10-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Job Candidate Session I (20 min Talk, 5 min Q&A)
Stephanie Johnson, Northwestern University
"Mortgage Leverage and House Prices"
Sean Higgins, University of California, Berkeley
"Financial Technology Adoption"
Greg Buchak, University of Chicago
"Financing the Gig Economy"
2:15-2:45 Refreshment Break
2:45-4:00 Job Candidate Session II (20 mins Talk, 5 min Q&A)
Julia Fonseca, Princeton University
"Financial Development, Labor Markets, and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from Brazil"
Jose Ignacio Cuesta, University of Chicago
"Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access"
Tiffany Tsai, University of California, Berkeley
"Insurance Pricing and Market Structure: A Study of GSE-Securitized Mortgage Loans"
4:00-4:30 Refreshment Break
4:30-5:10 Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley
"Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy"
5:10-5:50 Paul Goldsmith-Pinkam, Yale School of Management
"Medicare and the geography of financial health" with Maxim Pinkovskiy and Jacob Wallace
Attendance is free of charge but places are strictly limited and so registration is required.