Chicago Household Finance Conference Schedule

Note: The conference takes place at Rubsenstein Forum located at 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637. All presentations are in room 601. Breakfast and breaks will be in the Kapani Family Lounge (6th Floor) and lunch will be in room 602.

 

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Time (CT)
8:30 a.m.—
9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.—
9:40 a.m.
Title TBD
Mark Egan, Harvard Business School
9:40 a.m.—
10:20 a.m.
Title TBD
Sheisha Kulkarni, University of Virginia
10:20 a.m.—
10:40 a.m.
BREAK
10:40 a.m.—
11:20 a.m.
Title TBD
David Thesmar, MIT
11:20 a.m.—
12:00 p.m.
Title TBD
Daniel Graves, Harvard University
12:00 p.m.—
1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
1:00 p.m.—
1:40 p.m.
Title TBD
Johannes Wieland, UC San Diego
1:40 p.m.—
2:20 p.m.
Housing Heterogeneity and the Business Cycle: The Role of Micro and Macro Rigidities
Sasha Indarte, Wharton
2:20 p.m.—
2:40 p.m.
BREAK
2:40 p.m.—
3:20 p.m.
Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle
Dean Corbae, UW Madison
3:20 p.m.—
4:00 p.m.
Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data
Peter Maxted, UC Berkeley Haas
4:00 p.m.—
4:20 p.m.
BREAK
4:20 p.m.—
5:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion on "Fixed": Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone
John Campbell, Harvard University; Ron Borzekowski, Yale DISSC
6:00 p.m.—
9:00 p.m.
Dinner at Bar David
1202 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
(note: dinner is for faculty and presenters only)