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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   WelcomeSharon Donnery, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland 
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   Session IChair: Tara McIndoe Calder, Central Bank of Ireland 
- 9:20
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   Exposure to daily price changes and inflation expectationsMichael 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 boomFabian Kindermann, University of Regensburg, 
 with Julia Le Blanc, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
- 10:40
- Coffee break
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   Session IIChair: Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt 
- 11:00
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   Invited speaker Consumer regulation as whack-a-mole: Evidence from credit card marketsAntoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan 
- 11:50
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   Real effects of relaxing financial constraints on homeowners: Evidence from Danish firmsAlessia De Stefani, Danmarks Nationalbank, 
 with Julia Moertel
- 12:10
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   Borrowing constraints, own labour and homeownershipGiuseppe Pulina and Michael Ziegelmeyer, Banque centrale du Luxembourg, 
 with Peter Lindner and Thomas Mathä
- 12:30
- Lunch
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   Lunchtime talkPhilip R. Lane, Executive Board member, ECB 
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   Session IIIChair: Yvonne McCarthy, Central Bank of Ireland 
- 13:45
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   Consumption quality: A new perspective on the welfare implications of business cycle fluctuationsLeslie Sheng Shen, Federal Reserve Board, 
 with Casper Nordal Jørgensen
- 14:25
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   Taxation of durables, non-durables and earnings with heterogeneous preferencesFrancesca Parodi, Collegio Carlo Alberto 
- 15:05
- Coffee break
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   Session IVChair: Maria Woods, Central Bank of Ireland 
- 15:30
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   MPC heterogeneity in Europe: Sources and policy implicationsMiguel 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 areaFrédérique 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 FinancesLaura 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 mortgagesUlrike 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 VChair: Jiri Slacalek, ECB 
- 9:30
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   MoNK: Mortgages in a New Keynesian modelRoman Šustek, Queen Mary University, 
 with Carlos Garriga and Finn E. Kydland
- 10:10
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   Owning up: Closely held firms and wealth inequalityAlessandra Peter, Princeton University 
- 10:50
- Coffee break
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   Session VIChair: 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 areaJiri 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 areaMoritz 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 policyLudmila Fadejeva, Latvijas Banka, 
 with Zeynep Kantur
- 12:20
- Lunch
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   Session VIIChair: 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 RecessionAaron Hedlund, University of Missouri, 
 with Carlos Garriga
- 14:50
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   Consumption heterogeneity: Micro drivers and macro implicationsEdmund 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