Household Finance Workshop: Cost of Living Crisis

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Event details

Wednesday 5 June 2024
9:15am
Free

Description

The Sheffield Household Finance Research Group will host their fourth workshop on the 5th of June 2024 and the keynote speaker for this event is Professor Rob Alessie from the University of Groningen. The workshop, which is part funded by the Royal Economic Society, will have a special focus on the “cost of living crisis” and it aims to bring together world-leading researchers in this area and provide an interactive platform for discussion relating to recent developments in the field of household finances. 

Find out more about the workshop here.

9.15-9.30             
Coffee and Registration
9.30-9.40
Welcome by the event organisers
 
 
 
Morning Session (chair: Daniel Gray)
 
9.40-10.25
Carolin Hoeltken, University of Cambridge.
“Energy price hikes and expected household financial distress: a behavioural approach”
10.25-11.10
Concetta Rondinelli, Bank of Italy.
“Navigating the future: households inflation and consumption expectations”
11.10-11.25
Break
 
11.25-12.10
Olga Goldfayn-Frank, The Deutsche Bundesbank.
“Gender differences in the marginal propensities to consume, pay down debt and borrow”
 
 
12.10-13.00
Lunch
 
 
13.00-14.15
Keynote: Rob Alessie, University of Groningen (chair: Alberto Montagnoli).
“Beyond knowledge: Confidence and the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy”
14.15-14.45
Coffee
 
 
 
Afternoon Session (chair: Raslan Alzuabi)
14.45-15.30
Agnes Kovacs, King’s College London
“Temptation and Incentives to Accumulate Wealth”
15.30-16.15
Emiel Jerphanion, The University of Manchester.
“Student Loan Supply and Parental Saving”

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