The conference provides a venue for research using firm and plant-level data on a wide range of topics, disciplines and countries. It is unique meeting place for producers and users of these data including statisticians, survey methodologists, economists, sociologists, and other social...

We welcome and encourage the submission of a broad range of research work. Topics include, but are not limited to: competition and market power in the financial sector; technological innovation in financial markets and consumer impacts, including the use of big data and the presence of...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experice among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of applied economic modeling and data science.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers in household economics. We define household economics as the economic analysis of household decisions, including decisions regarding consumption, labor supply and other uses of time, household formation and dissolution, demand for health...

URPE members are invited to submit entire organized sessions or individual papers to URPE for our participation in this year’s 49th Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference to be held in New York February 23 – 26, 2022. In its seventeenth year, URPE @ EEA is continuing to provide a...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

This will feature research from a wide range of disciplines and approaches on the topic of consumer finance. Topics include, but are not limited to: competition and market power in the financial sector; technological innovation in financial markets and consumer impacts, including the use of big...

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...