CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2021

The CEPR Network on Household Finance, NUS Business School and NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies with the support of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI), Swedish House of Finance and  EDHEC organised the 2021 CEPR European Conference on Household Finance that took place completely virtually in the form of online webinars. The objective was to present state-of-the-art empirical and theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how it is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. In addition to the three-day online webinars that took place on 6-8 October 2021, a CEPR-TFI online webinar event on “Digital Assets” organised by Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), took place on 6 October 2021.

The organisers particularly encouraged submissions from PhD students in household finance planning to enter the job market in Winter 2022. Students applied online stating that they are a PhD student and supplied their CV. Top submissions, written exclusively by students, were included in the regular conference programme and in the candidates for the best student paper prize, awarded by the CEPR Network on Household Finance and sponsored by TFI. Past awardees have launched highly promising careers, including assistant professor positions in top academic institutions globally.

We solicited papers in the following areas, but other related areas may also be considered:

• Asset allocation and debt behaviour over the life cycle
• Financing retirement and the demographic transition
• Consumer indebtedness, financial distress, and default decisions
• Behavioural approaches to household finance
• Financial literacy and financial education programs
• Trust, subjective expectations, pessimism, and financial decisions
• International comparisons of household finances using micro-data
• Financial advice and legal protection of investors and borrowers 
• Financial innovation and household finances
• Households liquidity and risk management 
• Climate change, sustainability, and household finances 

Programme Committee
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Steffen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School and CEPR), Laurent E. Calvet (EDHEC Paris, CFS, and CEPR), Joao Cocco (London Business School, CFS, and CEPR), Russell Cooper (European University Institute), Francisco Gomes (London Business School and CEPR), Luigi Guiso (EIEF and CEPR), Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR), Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR), Matti Keloharju (Aalto University and CEPR), Alex Michaelides (Imperial College and CEPR), Giovanna Nicodano (Università di Torino, ECGI and Netspar), Monica Paiella (University of Naples Parthenope and CEPR), Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial Business School and CEPR), Sing Tien Foo (National University of Singapore), Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF, and CEPR), Raman Uppal (EDHEC and CEPR).

Local Organisers
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Cristian Badarinza (National University of Singapore and CEPR), Sing Tien Foo (National University of Singapore) and Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore).

The deadline for submissions was 18:00 (BST), Monday 19 July 2021.