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 the Dining room on the 1st floor.
Thursday, April 16, 2026 |
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| Time (CT) | ||
| 8:30 a.m.— 9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m.— 9:40 a.m. |
Why do Certifications Certify Mark Egan, Harvard Business School |
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| 9:40 a.m.— 10:20 a.m. |
Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls Sheisha Kulkarni, University of Virginia |
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| 10:20 a.m.— 10:40 a.m. |
BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m.— 11:20 a.m. |
Attitudes to Debt: The Role of Moral Values David Thesmar, MIT |
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| 11:20 a.m.— 12:00 p.m. |
Using Demand Estimation to Evaluate the Drivers of Household Investment Performance Daniel Graves, Harvard University |
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| 12:00 p.m.— 1:00 p.m. |
LUNCH (Dining room on 1st floor) | |
| 1:00 p.m.— 1:40 p.m. |
Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities Johannes Wieland, UC San Diego |
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| 1:40 p.m.— 2:20 p.m. |
Consumption Wedges: Measuring and Diagnosing Distortions Sasha Indarte, Wharton |
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| 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 |
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| 3:20 p.m.— 4:00 p.m. |
Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data Peter Maxted, UC Berkeley Haas |
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| 4:00 p.m.— 4:20 p.m. |
BREAK | |
| 4:20 p.m.— 5:30 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, Talia Gillis, Columbia |
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| 6:00 p.m.— 9:00 p.m. |
Dinner at the David Rubenstein Forum (Dining room on 1st floor) 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (note: dinner is for faculty and presenters only) |
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