Conference on Household Finance.

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The NBER, the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) of the Goethe University-Frankfurt, and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) at the University of Naples Federico II jointly organized a conference on "Household Finance." It took place at the Said Business School on September 21 and 22, 2012. The conference organizers were: Luigi Guiso, EIEF and Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR; Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II and CEPR; Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER; Tarun Ramadorai, Said Business School and CEPR; Nicholas Souleles, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; Daniele Terlizzese, EIEF and Banca d'Italia; and Peter Tufano, Said Business School and NBER. These papers were discussed:

* Kurt Mitman, University of Pennsylvania, "Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Policies"

* Alessandro Bucciol, University of Verona, and Raffaele Miniaci, Universito degli Studi di Brescia, "Household Portfolios and Risk Bearing over Age and Time"

* Nikolaos Artavanis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Adair Morse, University of Chicago and NBER; and Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago, "Tax Evasion across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece"

* Adriano Rampini and S. Viswanathan, Duke University, "Household Risk Management"

* Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois and NBER; Chichun Fang, University of Illinois; and Francisco Gomes, London Business School, "Risk and Returns to Education: The Value of Human Capital" (NBER Working Paper No. 18300)

* Annamaria Lusardi, George Washington University and NBER; Pierre-Carl Michaud, Universite du Quebec a Montreal and RAND Corporation; and Olivia...