RPN Household
Research Policy Network (RPNs)

Household Finance.

Project lead

Michael Haliassos

Director of CEPR RPN on Household Finance Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance Goethe University Frankfurt; Research Professor and Member, Executive Board

Household Finance was initially established as a CEPR Network in 2015 and expanded into an RPN in 2022. Its purpose is to promote, conduct, shape, and disseminate research in this dynamic field that was initiated about 25 years ago and now attracts the interest of researchers of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, whether in academia, central banks, regulatory agencies, fiscal authorities or in the private sector. This field, in which Europe-based researchers have been active since its beginnings in the late 1980s, has benefitted from the increasing complexity of household portfolios, partly because of the demographic transition and financial innovation, as well as from the development of pioneering data sets and the development of computational and experimental methods. 

Events

The Household Finance RPN plans various events, the most important being the European Workshop in the spring and the European Conference in the fall as well as a monthly online seminar series on current household finance research, spanning geographical locations, career stages, genders, and backgrounds.

Household Finance Seminars
Event Series

CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series

The CEPR RPN on Household Finance launched a new online seminar series on Household Finance. This is structured like a regular seminar, with light-touch moderation and opportunities to ask questions during the presentation.

PhD Student Paper Prize

The network puts great emphasis on the promotion of young researchers and awards a now annual Best PhD Student Paper Prize, which recognizes highly promising young researchers and now includes a number of them among its recipients.

Members

Matteo Benetton

Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business University Of California, Berkeley

RPN Member, Household Finance.

Sebastien Betermier

Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Finance McGill University

RPN Member, Household Finance.

Marieke Bos

Economist and Deputy Director, the Swedish House of Finance Stockholm School of Economics; Associate Professor of Finance VU Amsterdam

Andreas Fagereng

Senior Researcher at the Research Department Statistics Norway

RPN Member, Household Finance.

Andreas Fuster

Associate Professor of Finance Associate Professor of Finance, SFI Senior Chair Economic Advisor Swiss National Bank

Samuli Knüpfer

Professor of Finance, Professor of Ownership Aalto University School of Business

RPN Member, Household Finance.

Arna Olafsson

Research Affiliate Centre for Economic Policy Research; Assistant Professor of Finance Copenhagen Business School; Research Fellow Danish Finance Institute

Kim Peijnenburg

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Associate Professor in Finance École des Hautes Études Commerciales

Raman Uppal

Professor, Finance Department EDHEC Business School

Roine Vestman

Associate Professor of Economics Stockholm University, SHoF; Research Fellow Swedish Institute for Social Research

Stephen Zeldes

Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Economics Division Columbia University

RPN Member, Household Finance.

Associate Fellows

Cristian Badarinza

Assistant Professor National University Of Singapore

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance.

Vimal Balasubramaniam

Assistant Professor of Finance University Of Warwick

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance.

Monica Paiella

Professor of Economics Parthenope University of Naples

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance.

Paolo Sodini

Professor of Finance Stockholm School of Economics

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance. / RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance.

Steering Committee

Francisco Gomes

Professor London Business School

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance.

Tullio Jappelli

Research Fellow Center for Studies in Economics and Finance; Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics University of Naples Federico II

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance.

Matti Keloharju

Aalto Distinguished Professor Aalto University School of Business; Research Affiliate

Wenlan Qian

Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance, NUS Business School National University Of Singapore

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance.

Tarun Ramadorai

Professor of Financial Economics, Business School Imperial College London

Paolo Sodini

Professor of Finance Stockholm School of Economics

RPN Steering Committee, Household Finance. / RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance.

Partnerships

Network conferences and workshops are being supported by numerous institutions.

CEPR became an academic partner of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) in 2016, which provided funding to the Household Finance Network and collaborated in organising events until their disbandment in December 2021. TFI supported 60 research projects and reached more than 100 million people in 18 countries around the globe with insights to help them make better financial decisions. Household Finance hosts all research reports produced with the support of TFI:

TFI

 

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