Summer Workshop: Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice
Friday, July 25, 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Following the previous two conferences, this one-day summer workshop presents research on the consumer side of the payments market. In contrast to the previous conferences, this is an academic-style workshop to provide an informal environment to promote extensive interaction and exchange of ideas.
| 8:30 AM | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcoming remarks Jeff Fuhrer (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| 9:15 |
Wilko Bolt, Nicole Jonker, and Corry Van Renselaar (De Nederlandsche Bank) Discussant: Fumiko Hayashi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Market Structure and the Diffusion of Electronic Banking Jason Allen (Bank of Canada), Robert Clark (HEC Montreal), and Jean-Francois Houde (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Discussant: Elizabeth Kiser (Federal Reserve Board) |
| 11:15 | A Field Experiment on the Impact of Different Payment Systems on Charitable Giving Adriaan Soetevent (University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) Discussant: Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Do Consumers Borrow on their Cheapest Credit Card? Evidence from Mexico. Alejandro Ponce (Stanford University), Enrique Seira and Guillermo Zamarripa (SHCP, Mexico) Discussant: Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University) |
| 2:15 | Dynamics of Consumer Adoption Decisions of Financial Innovation: The Case of ATM Cards in Italy Botao Yang and Andrew Ching (University of Toronto) Discussant: Marc Rysman (Boston University) |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:30 | Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures Dennis Campbell, Asis Martinez Jerez, and Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School) Discussant: Don Morgan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
| 4:15 | Reception |
