Sixth Conference on Household Finance and Consumption
16 and 17 December 2019
Central Bank of Ireland, North Wall Quay, Dublin
The European Central Bank organises a biennial conference on household finance and consumption. The conference aims to foster empirical and theoretical research on the implications of household heterogeneity for the accumulation of assets and debt, consumption and saving behaviour, and the transmission and effects of monetary policy. It focuses on research that uses household-level data, with a special interest in the data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS).
Programme
- 8:30
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Registration and coffee
- 9:00
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Welcome
Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland
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Session I
Chair: Tara McIndoe Calder, Central Bank of Ireland
- 9:20
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Exposure to daily price changes and inflation expectations
Michael Weber, Chicago Booth,
with Francesco D’Acunto, Ulrike Malmendier and Juan Ospina - 10:00
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Learning about housing costs: Survey evidence from the German house price boom
Fabian Kindermann, University of Regensburg,
with Julia Le Blanc, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider - 10:40
- Coffee break
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Session II
Chair: Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 11:00
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Invited speaker Consumer regulation as whack-a-mole: Evidence from credit card markets
Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan
- 11:50
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Real effects of relaxing financial constraints on homeowners: Evidence from Danish firms
Alessia De Stefani, Danmarks Nationalbank,
with Julia Moertel - 12:10
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Borrowing constraints, own labour and homeownership
Giuseppe Pulina and Michael Ziegelmeyer, Banque centrale du Luxembourg,
with Peter Lindner and Thomas Mathä - 12:30
- Lunch
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Lunchtime talk
Philip R. Lane, Executive Board member, ECB
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Session III
Chair: Yvonne McCarthy, Central Bank of Ireland
- 13:45
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Consumption quality: A new perspective on the welfare implications of business cycle fluctuations
Leslie Sheng Shen, Federal Reserve Board,
with Casper Nordal Jørgensen - 14:25
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Taxation of durables, non-durables and earnings with heterogeneous preferences
Francesca Parodi, Collegio Carlo Alberto
- 15:05
- Coffee break
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Session IV
Chair: Maria Woods, Central Bank of Ireland
- 15:30
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MPC heterogeneity in Europe: Sources and policy implications
Miguel Ampudia, ECB,
with Russell Cooper, Julia Le Blanc and Guozhong Zhu - 15:50
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Wealth effects on consumption during the sovereign debt crisis: Households’ heterogeneity in the euro area
Frédérique Savignac, Banque de France,
with Bertrand Garbinti, Pierre Lamarche and Charlélie Lecanu - 16:10
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Income risk asymmetries, consumption and wealth: The dynamics of inequality in the Spanish Survey of Household Finances
Laura Hospido, Banco de España,
with Henrique S. Basso, Olympia Bover and José María Casado - 16:30
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Invited speaker The long shadows of the Great Inflation: Evidence from residential mortgages
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley,
with Matthew J. Botsch - 17:20
- End of Day 1
- 19:00
- Conference dinner - invitation only
- 9:15
- Registration and coffee
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Session V
Chair: Jiri Slacalek, ECB
- 9:30
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MoNK: Mortgages in a New Keynesian model
Roman Šustek, Queen Mary University,
with Carlos Garriga and Finn E. Kydland - 10:10
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Owning up: Closely held firms and wealth inequality
Alessandra Peter, Princeton University
- 10:50
- Coffee break
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Session VI
Chair: Sarah Holton, Central Bank of Ireland
- 11:20
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Household balance sheet channels of monetary policy: A “back of an envelope” calculation for the euro area
Jiri Slacalek, ECB,
with Oreste Tristani and Gianluca Violante - 11:40
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Real interest rates and the redistribution of nominal wealth in the euro area
Moritz A. Roth, Banco de España,
with Maarten Dossche, Jacob Hartwig, Antonio Matas Mir and Panagiota Tzamourani - 12:00
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Aging, wealth distribution and monetary policy
Ludmila Fadejeva, Latvijas Banka,
with Zeynep Kantur - 12:20
- Lunch
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Session VII
Chair: Matija Lozej, Central Bank of Ireland
- 13:20
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Invited speaker HFCS: Future of macroeconomics! (If ...)
Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University
- 14:10
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Mortgage debt, consumption and illiquid housing markets in the Great Recession
Aaron Hedlund, University of Missouri,
with Carlos Garriga - 14:50
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Consumption heterogeneity: Micro drivers and macro implications
Edmund S. Crawley, Federal Reserve Board,
with Andreas Kuchler - 15:30
- End of conference
General information
Central Bank of Ireland
North Wall Quay
Dublin
Ireland
English
Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers, unless indicated otherwise.
Tara McIndoe Calder
Central Bank of Ireland
Jiri Slacalek
European Central Bank
Michalis Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt
Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II
Reamonn Lydon, Central Bank of Ireland
Tara McIndoe Calder, Central Bank of Ireland
Jiri Slacalek, ECB
Oreste Tristani, ECB