Seventh Conference on Household Finance and Consumption (16-17 December)

26 October 2021

Banca d'Italia and the European Central Bank are organizing the Seventh Conference on Household Finance and Consumption. The goal is to bring together leading and emerging economists to present and discuss recent analyses of household financial behavior. The conference will be held virtually via Webex.

The first day of the meeting will be chaired by Silvia Fabiani, Head of the Statistical Analysis directorate of the Bank of Italy. The keynote speakers will be Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University) and Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania).

Please find attached the full programme of the Conference.

Researchers interested to participate, should send an email to: HFC_2021@bancaditalia.it.

Guidelines on accessing the Conference will be provided to attendees upon completion of registration.

Annexes

  1. 26 October 2021
    Programme
    pdf 371.4 KB
  2. 23 December 2021
    Financial literacy and well-being: evidence from five years of data
    pdf 4.5 MB

    Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University)

  3. 16 December 2021
    Quantitative Easing and Inequality - paper
    pdf 6.2 MB

    Donggyu Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

  4. 16 December 2021
    Quantitative Easing and Inequality
    pdf 2.7 MB

    Donggyu Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

  5. 24 December 2021
    The effects of monetary policy through housing and mortgage choices
    pdf 653.8 KB

    Karin Kinnerud (BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo)

  6. 23 December 2021
    House price cycles, wealth inequality and portfolio reshuffling
    pdf 1.5 MB

    Clara Martinez-Toledano (Imperial College London)

  7. 23 December 2021
    Tax housing or land? Distributional effects of property taxation in Germany
    pdf 494.4 KB

    Rafael Barbosa (International Monetary Fund), Simon Skipka (EUI Florence)

  8. 23 December 2021
    Tax housing or land? Distributional effects of property taxation in Germany - paper
    pdf 1.3 MB

    Rafael Barbosa (International Monetary Fund), Simon Skipka (EUI Florence)

  9. 23 December 2021
    The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the COVID-19 school closures
    pdf 604.6 KB

    Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)

  10. 23 December 2021
    The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the COVID-19 school closures - paper
    pdf 1021.0 KB

    Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)

  11. 23 December 2021
    How heterogeneous was the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the financial situation of Portuguese households?
    pdf 243.6 KB

    Sónia Carvalho Costa (Banco de Portugal)

  12. 23 December 2021
    The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the financial situation of households in Germany
    pdf 232.1 KB

    Tobias Schmidt (Deutsche Bundesbank)

  13. 23 December 2021
    Consumption and saving behaviour of Italian households during the Covid-19 crisis
    pdf 379.0 KB

    Andrea Neri (Banca d'Italia)

  14. 23 December 2021
    Wealth Inequality in the US: the role of heterogeneous returns
    pdf 699.2 KB

    Inês Xavier (Federal Reserve Board)

  15. 23 December 2021
    Wealth Inequality in the US: the role of heterogeneous returns - paper
    pdf 804.7 KB

    Inês Xavier (Federal Reserve Board)

  16. 23 December 2021
    Spousal insurance and the amplification of business cycles
    pdf 763.0 KB

    Bence Bardóczy (Federal Reserve Board)