Conference
Fourth conference on household finance and consumption
ECB conference
Frankfurt am Main, 17 and 18 December 2015
 ECB Main Building, Press Room (C5.01)
Programme
Thursday, 17 December 2015
* indicates the presenter
- 8:30
- Registration and coffee
- 9:00
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   Welcome addressAurel Schubert, European Central Bank 
- 9:15
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   Session I Consumption and savingChair: Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, European Central Bank 
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   Consumption uncertainty and precautionary saving PaperPresentationDimitris Christelis, University of Naples Federico II, CSEF, CFS and CEPAR 
 Dimitris Georgarakos*, Deutsche Bundesbank, CFS and University of Leicester
 Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR
 Maarten van Rooij, De Nederlandsche Bank and NetsparDiscussant: Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Banca d’Italia 
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   Culture and household saving PaperPresentationBenjamin Guin, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance, University of St. Gallen Discussant: Michael Ziegelmeyer, Banque centrale du Luxembourg 
 Presentation
- 10:45
- Coffee break
- 11:15
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   Session II Credit and housingChair: Luc Laeven, European Central Bank 
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   The unintended consequences of credit: the impact of housing credit on personal bankruptcy PaperPresentationSumit Agarwal and Changcheng Song*, National University of Singapore Discussant: Miguel Ampudia, European Central Bank 
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   Home production as a substitute for market consumption? Estimating the elasticity using house price shocks from the Great Recession PaperPresentationJim Been*, Leiden University and Netspar 
 Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, MEA and Netspar
 Michael Hurd, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, NBER, MEA and NetsparDiscussant: Eliana Viviano, Banca d’Italia 
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- 12:45
- Buffet lunch
- 13:45
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   Conference posters- Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area Klaus Adam, University of Mannheim and CEPR 
 Panagiota Tzamourani, Deutsche Bundesbank
- Accessorizing: the effect of union contract renewals on consumption Effrosyni Adamopoulou and Roberta Zizza, Banca d’Italia 
- Personal bankruptcy and wage garnishment Florian Exler, University of Mannheim 
- Private wealth across European countries: the role of income, inheritance and the welfare state Pirmin Fessler and Martin Schürz, Oesterreichische Nationalbank 
- Age-specific household balance sheets: the role of assets in the reallocation of resources over age Bernhard Hammer, Austrian Academy of Sciences 
- Looking behind mortgage delinquencies Sauro Mocetti and Eliana Viviano, Banca d’Italia 
 
- Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area 
- 14:15
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   Keynote speech Restoring rational choice: the challenge of consumer finance?Paper PresentationJohn Campbell, Harvard University 
- 15:30
- Coffee break
- 16:00
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   Session III Wealth, debt and spendingChair: Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank 
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   Wealth effects on consumption across the wealth distribution: empirical evidence PaperPresentationLuc Arrondel, CNRS-PSE, Banque de France 
 Pierre Lamarche, European Central Bank
 Frédérique Savignac*, Banque de FranceDiscussant: Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II 
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   Household debt and spending in the United Kingdom PaperPresentationPhilip Bunn* and May Rostom, Bank of England Discussant: Ljubica Djordjevic, Goethe University Frankfurt 
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- 19:00
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   Dinner 
 Hosted by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President, European Central Bank
- 8:30
- Registration and coffee
- 9:00
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   Keynote speech Monetary policy according to HANKPaper PresentationGianluca Violante, New York University 
- 10:15
- Coffee break
- 10:45
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   Session IV Housing and stock market investmentChair: Aurel Schubert, European Central Bank 
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   Housing and tax-deferred retirement accounts PaperPresentationAnson Ho, Kansas State University 
 Jie Zhou*, Bank of CanadaDiscussant: Julia Le Blanc, Central Bank of Ireland 
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   Endogenous life-cycle housing investment and portfolio allocation PaperPresentationDenis Pelletier, North Carolina State University 
 Cengiz Tunç*, Central Bank of the Republic of TurkeyDiscussant: Florian Exler, University of Mannheim 
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   Stock market investment: the role of human capital PaperPresentationKartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 
 Felicia Ionescu*, Federal Reserve Board
 Urvi Neelakantan, Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondDiscussant: Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt 
 Presentation
- 13:00
- Buffet lunch
- 13:30
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   Conference posters
- 14:00
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   Session V Distribution of income and wealthChair: Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, European Central Bank 
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   Reconciling estimates of earnings processes in growth rates and levels PaperPresentationMoira Daly, Copenhagen Business School 
 Dmytro Hryshko*, University of Alberta
 Iourii Manovskii, University of PennsylvaniaDiscussant: Jirka Slacalek, European Central Bank 
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   The distribution of wealth in Spain: evidence from capitalized income tax data PaperPresentationClara Martínez-Toledano Toledano, Paris School of Economics Discussant: Philip Vermeulen, European Central Bank 
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   Financial literacy and interviewer effects PaperPresentationThomas Crossley, University of Essex 
 Tobias Schmidt* and Panagiota Tzamourani, Deutsche Bundesbank
 Joachim Winter, University of MunichDiscussant: Pirmin Fessler, Oesterreichische Nationalbank 
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- 16:15
- End of conference
General information
Jiri Slacalek
 Directorate General Research
 +49 (0) 69 1344 5047
 jiri.slacalek@ecb.europa.eu 
Daniela Rothermel
 Directorate General Research
 +49 (0) 69 1344 5372
 daniela.rothermel@ecb.europa.eu