The goal of the virtual conference is to connect the core community of researchers and policymakers with the best research being conducted across a wide range of disciplines and approaches that can inform the topic of consumer finance. For this year’s conference, we especially encourage...

We are interested in papers on households’ consumption, saving, housing decisions, investment and borrowing decisions, households’ reaction to uncertainty and expectations formation and disagreements about inflation, house price developments and labor income risks. The focus will be on...

The workshop will consider papers in all areas of finance, including Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Household Finance, and International Finance.

The Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 crisis have, among many other things, also affected savings behaviour. Changes involve both aggregate household savings ratios, individual propensity to consume and to save, as well as portfolio choice. While the post-GFC and COVID-induced very low...

The objective of this workshop is to host presentations and foster interaction between Senior and Junior Researchers working in the area of household finance. The workshop will include state-of-the-art research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices,...

The theme of the conference will be "Security in Work? The workplace after COVID-19". Topics: - the protection, health and safety of workers; - variations in the impact on workers by race and ethnicity, caring responsibilities, disability, age, migration status and gender; - the legacies of...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...

Aufgrund der anhaltenden Unsicherheit bezüglich der Entwicklung der Corona-Pandemie haben wir uns dazu entschlossen, die Jahrestagung 2021 als verkürzte eintägige Online-Veranstaltung durchzuführen. Welche Herausforderungen die Corona-Pandemie aus demografischer Perspektive mit sich bringt...

Event program: - Opening keynote: Financial Literacy; - Competition & Regulation in Big Tech panel; - Fireside with Satya Nadella & Jeff Raikes: Privacy and Trust; - Future of College Sports panel; - Closing keynote: Macroeconomic Policy. Admission: By invitation only.

Topics: - Household savings behaviour; - Occupational pension schemes; - The role of housing and home equity release products; - Risk-management and investment strategies of pension funds and insurance companies; - Bank business models, bank funding and lending; - Low interest rates and...