Household Finance.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Household Finance met in Cambridge on October 16, 2009. Organizers Nicholas Souleles, NBER and Wharton School, and Peter Tufano, NBER and Harvard Business School, chose these papers to discuss:

* Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University; Amit Seru, University of Chicago; and Vikrant Vig, London Business School, "Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis"

* Susan E. Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics, and Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER, "The Equilibrium Distribution of Prices Paid by Imperfectly Informed Customers: Theory and Evidence from the Mortgage Market"

* Motohiro Yogo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets" (NBER Working Paper No. 15307)

* Bruce Ian Carlin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and...