

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.

European Household Finance Workshops

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.

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.
Members

Sebastien Betermier
RPN Member, Household Finance

Andreas Fagereng
RPN Member, Household Finance

Samuli Knüpfer
RPN Member, Household Finance
Julia Le Blanc
RPN Member, Household Finance
Soren Leth-Petersen
Fellow, Public Economics

Arna Olafsson
RPN Member, Household Finance
Michaela Pagel
RPN Member, Household Finance
Kim Peijnenburg
RPN Member, Household FinanceFrédérique Savignac
RPN Member, Household Finance
Raman Uppal
RPN Member, Household Finance
Roine Vestman
RPN Member, Household Finance
Stephen Zeldes
RPN Member, Household FinanceAssociate Fellows

Cristian Badarinza
RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance
Vimal Balasubramaniam
RPN Associate Fellow, Household FinanceYigitcan Karabulut
RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance
Monica Paiella
RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance
Paolo Sodini
RPN Steering Committee, Household FinanceSteering Committee

Steffen Andersen
RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance
Laurent E. Calvet
RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance
Joao F. Cocco
RPN Member, European Financial Architecture
Francisco Gomes
RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance
Tullio Jappelli
Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth
Alexander Michaelides
Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Wenlan Qian
RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance
Paolo Sodini
RPN Steering Committee, Household FinancePartnerships
Network conferences and workshops are being supported by numerous institutions.

Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research

Center for Studies in Economics and Finance

Copenhagen Business School

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

EDHEC Business School

Imperial College London - Business School

London Business School

National University of Singapore Business School

Swedish House Of Finance
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.
