RPN Household
Research Policy Network (RPNs)

Household Finance

Project lead

Michael Haliassos

Director of CEPR RPN on Household Finance Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance Goethe University Frankfurt; Research Professor

Household Finance was initially established as a CEPR Network in 2015 and expanded into an RPN in 2022. Its purpose is to promote, conduct, shape, and disseminate research in this dynamic field that was initiated about 25 years ago and now attracts the interest of researchers of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, whether in academia, central banks, regulatory agencies, fiscal authorities or in the private sector. This field, in which Europe-based researchers have been active since its beginnings in the late 1980s, has benefitted from the increasing complexity of household portfolios, partly because of the demographic transition and financial innovation, as well as from the development of pioneering data sets and the development of computational and experimental methods. 

Events

The Household Finance RPN plans various events, the most important being the European Workshop in the spring and the European Conference in the fall as well as a monthly online seminar series on current household finance research, spanning geographical locations, career stages, genders, and backgrounds. Network members are also among the organisers of two Seminar Series, the CAFFE (CEPR Advanced Forum on Financial Economics) and on Micro and Macro Implications of Household Finance.

Household Finance Conferences
Event Series

CEPR European Conference on Household Finance

The objective of this annual conference is 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.

Household Finance Seminars
Event Series

CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series

The CEPR RPN on Household Finance launched a new online seminar series on Household Finance. This is structured like a regular seminar, with light-touch moderation and opportunities to ask questions during the presentation.

PhD Student Paper Prize

The network puts great emphasis on the promotion of young researchers and awards a now annual Best PhD Student Paper Prize, which recognizes highly promising young researchers and now includes a number of them among its recipients.

(N.B. CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2021 was hosted remotely on 6-8 October) 

(N.B. The Fifth European Workshop on Household Finance was hosted remotely in three 2-hour sessions on 7-9 May) 

(N.B The correct dates for the 2019 CEPR European Conference in Household Finance in Rhodes were 20-21 September) 

(N.B. The date for the 2017 Sardinia conference changed from 15-16 September to 6-7 October) 

Members

Marieke Bos

Economist and Deputy Director, the Swedish House of Finance Stockholm School Of Economics; Associate Professor of Finance Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Andreas Fagereng

Professor Bi Norwegian Business School; Senior Researcher Statistics Norway

RPN Member, Household Finance

Andreas Fuster

Associate Professor of Finance, SFI Senior Chair EPFL; Economic Advisor Swiss National Bank (SNB)

Samuli Knüpfer

Professor of Finance, Professor of Ownership Aalto University School of Business

RPN Member, Household Finance

Soren Leth-Petersen

Professor University Of Copenhagen

Fellow, Public Economics / RPN Member, Household Finance

Kaveh Majlesi

Part-time Professor of Economics Lund University; Professor of Economics Monash University

Arna Olafsson

Assistant Professor of Finance Copenhagen Business School; Research Fellow Danish Finance Institute

RPN Member, Household Finance / Affiliate, Asset Pricing

Michaela Pagel

Associate Professor Columbia University

RPN Member, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Kim Peijnenburg

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor in Finance École des Hautes Études Commerciales; Professor Edhec Business School

RPN Member, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Raman Uppal

Professor, Finance Department Edhec Business School

RPN Member, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Roine Vestman

Associate Professor of Economics Stockholm University, SHoF; Research Fellow Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University

RPN Member, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Stephen Zeldes

Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Economics Division Columbia University

RPN Member, Household Finance

Associate Fellows

Cristian Badarinza

Assistant Professor National University Of Singapore

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Vimal Balasubramaniam

Assistant Professor of Finance University of Warwick

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Monica Paiella

Professor of Economics Parthenope University of Naples

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Paolo Sodini

Professor of Finance Stockholm School Of Economics

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Steering Committee

Steffen Andersen

Professor Copenhagen Business School

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Laurent E. Calvet

Professor of Finance Edhec Business School

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Joao F. Cocco

Professor of Finance London Business School

RPN Member, European Financial Architecture / RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Francisco Gomes

Professor London Business School

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Luigi Guiso

AXA Professor of Household Finance Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Tullio Jappelli

Research Fellow Center for Studies in Economics and Finance; Director of CSEF and Professor of Economics University Of Naples Federico Ii

Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth / RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Matti Keloharju

Aalto Distinguished Professor Aalto University School of Business; Affiliated Researcher Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Alexander Michaelides

Professor of Finance Imperial College London Business School

Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations / RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / Fellow, Asset Pricing

Giovanna Nicodano

Director Master in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management Collegio Carlo Alberto; Professor of Financial Economics University of Turin

Wenlan Qian

Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance, NUS Business School National University Of Singapore

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance

Paolo Sodini

Professor of Finance Stockholm School Of Economics

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance / RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Partnerships

Network conferences and workshops are being supported by numerous institutions.

CEPR became an academic partner of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) in 2016, which provided funding to the Household Finance Network and collaborated in organising events until their disbandment in December 2021. TFI supported 60 research projects and reached more than 100 million people in 18 countries around the globe with insights to help them make better financial decisions. Household Finance hosts all research reports produced with the support of TFI. See here all research reports.

TFI

 

Research affiliates

Matteo Benetton

Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business University Of California, Berkeley

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