2016 Workshop
May 19-21, 2016
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University; Logan, Utah.
The annual QSPS Summer Workshop takes place in a selective setting in which 10 to 12 participants each have one hour to present and discuss research. This format and selective setting facilitates in-depth peer feedback, while interacting extensively with other workshop participants and guests.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dirk Krueger is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as a Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and he is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies, and a Research Fellow of Netspar. His research focuses on the topics of consumption and saving over the life cycle, inequality, taxation, education, social insurance, housing, to name just a few. Dirk has published his research in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, among many other outlets.
Luigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and he currently serves as a Co-Editor of the American Economic Review. He also serves as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and as a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Luigi studies consumption inequality and mobility, saving, decision making over the life cycle, labor supply, wage and employment risk, among many other topics. He has published his research in peer-reviewed outlets such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and the European Economic Review, among many others.
PROGRAM:
Thursday May 19
4:00pm - 4:30pm Check-In at the Douglas D. Anderson Executive Boardroom, Huntsman Hall, Utah State University
4:30pm - 5:30pm The Liquid Hand-to-Mouth: Evidence from Personal Finance Management Software
Michaela Pagel, Columbia Business School
Coauthor: Arna Vardardottir, Copenhagen Business School
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5:45pm - 6:45pm Wealth, Portfolio Allocation, and Risk Preference
Joseph Briggs, New York University
Coauthor: David Cesarini, New York University
Coauthor: Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Coauthor: Robert Ostling, IIES
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7:00pm - 9:00pm Complimentary Opening Dinner at Elements Restaurant.
Friday May 20
7:30am - 8:30am Complimentary Breakfast
8:30am - 9:30am Retirement Financing: An Optimal Reform Approach
Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
Coauthor: Ali Shourideh, Wharton School of Business
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9:45am - 10:45am Keynote Presentation: Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
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11:00am - 12:00pm Reducing Medical Spending of the Publicly Insured: The Case for Cash-Out Option
Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia
Coauthor: Ponpoje Porapakkarm, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
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12:00pm - 1:00pm Complimentary Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Home Production as a Substitute to Market Consumption? Estimating the Elasticity using Houseprice Shocks
Jim Been, Leiden University
Coauthor: Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
Coauthor: Michael Hurd, RAND Corporation
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2:15pm - 3:15pm Optimal Public Debt with Life Cycle Motives
William Peterman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Coauthor: Erick Sager, Bureau of Labor Statistics
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3:15pm - 6:00pm Free time (hiking and sightseeing)
6:00pm - 9:00pm Complimentary Dinner & Campfire in Logan Canyon (Spring Hollow Campground; Group B Site)
Saturday May 21
7:30am - 8:30am Complimentary Breakfast
8:30am - 9:30am The Welfare Cost of Retirement Uncertainty
Maria Casanova, California State University-Fullerton
Coauthor: Frank Caliendo, Utah State University
Coauthor: Aspen Gorry, Utah State University
Coauthor: Sita Slavov, George Mason University
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9:45am - 10:45am Keynote Presentation: Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania
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11:00pm - 12:00pm A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Grave: Risk Aversion and Life-Cycle Savings
Francois Le Grand, EMLyon Business School & ETH Zurich
Coauthor: Antoine Bommier, ETH Zurich
Coauthor: Daniel Harenberg, ETH Zurich
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12:00pm - 1:00pm Complimentary Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Reforming Social Security: The Earnings Cap and Endogenous Human Capital
Adam Blandin, Virginia Commonwealth University
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2:15pm - 3:15pm The Effects of Physical Health and Aging on Financial Needs after Retirement: An Analysis across Europe
Marike Knoef, Leiden University
Coauthor: Lieke Kools, Leiden University
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3:30pm - 4:30pm Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession
Aaron Hedlund, University of Missouria-Columbia
Coauthor: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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4:30pm - 7:30pm Free time (hiking, sightseeing)
7:30pm - 9:00pm Complimentary Closing Dinner at Cafe Sabor.
Location:
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Visitors enjoy world-class scenery just minutes from campus. Easy access to hiking, biking, fishing, camping, boating and other sight-seeing opportunities in the mountains. Logan is truly an outdoor paradise for those who are enthusiastic about the mountains, providing everything from gentle nature trails along rivers and lakes to extreme challenges on some of the steepest slopes in the Rockies.