12th Annual Conference: Household Finance (Joint with IREUS)

12th Annual Conference
Household Finance
(Joint with IREUS)

May
2025

Tuesday

Household Finance I
Chair: Hanming FANG (University of Pennsylvania and ABFER)

Location: Cuscaden

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Financial and Total Wealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates

Daniel L. GREENWALD (New York University)
Matteo LEOMBRONI (Boston College)
Hanno LUSTIG (Stanford University)
Stijn VAN NIEUWERBURGH* (Columbia University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Arthur ACOLIN (University of Washington)

Conference Paper

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Poverty Spreads in Deposit Markets

Emilio BISETTI* (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Arkodipta SARKAR (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Shashwat ALOK (Indian School of Business)

Conference Paper

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Break

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Mortgage Prepayments in China and Monetary Policy Transmission

Zhenyu GAO (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Wenxi JIANG (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Haohan REN* (Fudan University)
Kemin WANG (Fudan University)
Yuezhi WU (Fudan University)

Discussant:
Jing WU (Tsinghua University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

May
2025

Wednesday

Household Finance II
Chair: Amit GOYAL (University of Lausanne and ABFER)

Location: Cuscaden

9:00 am – 10:00 am

FinTech as a Financial Liberator

Greg BUCHAK (Stanford University)
Jiayin HU* (Peking University)
Shang-Jin WEI (Columbia University and ABFER)

Discussant:
Hyun-Soo CHOI (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and ABFER)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 11:00 am

The Distribution Side of Insurance Markets

Li AN (Tsinghua University)
Wei HUANG (University of International Business and Economics)
Dong LOU (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ABFER)
Jiaxing TIAN* (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Yongxiang WANG (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)

Discussant:
Stephen DIMMOCK (National University of Singapore and ABFER)

Conference Paper

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

The Impact of Finfluencers on Retail Investment

Isaiah HULL (BI Norwegian Business School and CogniFrame Inc.)
Yingjie QI* (Copenhagen Business School)

Discussant:
Mandy ZHANG (National University of Singapore)

Conference Paper

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 20 Mar 2025.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper has 30 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussant remarks, and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after two papers.

Contact Information

Program Director	Conference Organizer
Wenlan QIAN (National University of Singapore and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tarun RAMADORAI (Imperial College London and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Cristian BADARINZA (National University of Singapore) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Changcheng SONG (University of Florida) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.