Junior Household Finance Seminar
First and third Fridays of the month 1:00-2:00 P.M. EST.
A juniors-only forum to present early-stage work in household finance. Visit our website to sign up and view past presentation schedules.
Lectures on Life’s Financial Decisions
These are lectures that came out of my ECON 3559: Everyday Economics class that I taught in the University of Virginia Economics Department in 2019. I’ve found them very useful to send to friends/family when they’ve made big financial decisions.
Buying vs Renting
Lecture | Spreadsheet for comparing different car financing optionsRetirement Investing
Lecture | Building your own retirement portfolioInsurance
Life and Disability | Property | Spreadsheet for Choosing Health Insurance Plans
Syllabus
Discussions
Savings and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance (Justin Katz) - WFA 2025
Financial Skills and Search in the Mortgage Market (Marta Cota, Ante Stěrc) - ASSAs 2025
Cookies and Shopping (Bo Bian, Michaela Pagel, Huan Tang, and Emily Williams) - ASSAs 2025
Aftermath of a Payday Lending Shutdown (Mark Jensen, Zack Liu, Ryan Voges, Peter Young Won) - WEAI 2024
Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy (Samuel Antill, Megan Hunter) - Workshop on Financial Intermediation and Regulation 2023
Bank Competition and Entrepreneurial Gaps: Evidence from Banking Deregulation (Xiang Li) - SFS Cavalcade 2023
The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps (Bo Bian, Xinchen Ma, Huan Tang) - SFS Cavalcade 2023
Race Disparities in Housing - NTA 2021
The Black-White Gap in Consumer Bankruptcy (Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Dana Scott, Jialan Wang) - SEA 2021
Asset Exemptions and Consumer Bankruptcies: Evidence from Individual Filings (Nathaniel Pattison, Richard M. Hynes) - CEA 2019
Seeking My Supervisor: Evidence from the Centralization of Banking Supervision in Europe (Itzhak Ben-David, Giovanni Cerulli, Franco Fiordelisi, and David Marques-Ibanez) - 27th Finance Forum 2019