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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.

Preliminary Agenda

8:30 AM	Continental breakfast
9:00	Welcoming remarks Jeff Fuhrer (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
9:15	Incentives at the Counter: An Empirical Analysis of Surcharging Card Payments and Payment Behaviour in the Netherlands 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

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