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Consumer Finance Research Group
2009 New England Meeting

This event is by invitation only.
Please RSVP to Zdenka Sturm at zsturm@hbs.edu

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Harvard Business School
Baker Library 102

Program

8:00-8:30 am   Informal breakfast
8:30 am

Welcome and introductions

Session I  
8:45-9:30 am

Ethan Cohen-Cole, Burcu Duygan-Bump, Judit Montoriol-Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston): “Forgive and Forget: Who Gets Credit after Bankruptcy and Why?

9:30-10:15 am 

John Beshears (Harvard), James J. Choi (Yale), David Laibson (Harvard), Brigitte C. Madrian (Harvard), and Katherine L. Milkman (Harvard Business School): “The Effect of Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisionspdf

10:15-10:30 am Break
Session II  
10:30-11:00 am Zvi Bodie (Boston University): Lifecycle Saving and Investing pdf
Presentation pdf
11:00-11:30 am

Lawrence Kotlikoff (Boston University): Financial Pathology, Malpractice, and Cure

11:30-11:45 am

Break

Session III  
11:45-12:30 pm

Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School), Diego Aycinena (Francisco Marroquin University), Claudia Martinez (University of Chile), and Dean Yang (University of Michigan): “Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvadorpdf

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch and panel discussion: Consumer Finance Curriculum
Brigitte Madrian (Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School)

 

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