The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how it is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Asset allocation and debt behaviour...

Programm: -"Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession" - Gianluca Violante, Greg Kaplan and Kurt Mitman, - “Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task” - Saverio Simonelli and Ethan Ilzetzki, - “State-Dependent Pricing and the Paradox of...