MIT GCFP | Consumer Finance Conference| Paper Sessions| October 25

Below are papers that will be presented on October 25, 2024 beginning at 8am ET as part of the MIT GCFP 11th Annual Conference, "Consumer Finance: New Perspectives on Policies and Products":

PAPER SESSION I: “Improving Mortgage Finance”  (8:00 -9:30am)

Moderator: Felipe Severino (Dartmouth College)

Lauren Cohen (HBS and NBER) and Huaizhi Chen* (University of Notre Dame), "Assessing Assessors"

David Berger* (Duke University and NBER), Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern University and NBER), Fabrice Tourre (Baruch College) and Joseph Vavra (University of Chicago and NBER), "Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution"

Janet Gao* (Georgetown University), Hanyi Livia Yi (Boston College) and David Zhang (Rice University), "Algorithmic Underwriting in High Risk Mortgage Markets"

Discussants: Ed Golding (MIT), Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

PAPER SESSION II: “Optimizing Risk Sharing” (9:45 -11:00am)

Moderator: Jonathan Parker (MIT)

Joseph Briggs (Goldman Sachs), Ciaran Rogers* (HEC Paris), Christopher Tonetti (Stanford GSB and NBER), "Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets"

Gyozo Gyongyosi (Utrecht University) and Emil Verner* (MIT and NBER), “Household Debt Relief and the Debt Laffer Curve”

Discussants: Kjetil Storesletten (University of Minnesota), Lesley Turner (University of Chicago)

PAPER SESSION III: “Gambling Markets” (11:15am-12:30pm)

Moderator: Lawrence Schmidt (MIT)

Edna Lopez Avila* (University of Toronto), "In the Money? Low-Leve(rage Option Betting"

Scott Baker (Northwestern University), Justin Balthrop (University of Kansas), Mark Johnson (Brigham Young University), Jason Kotter* (Brigham Young University), Kevin Pisciotta (University of Kansas), "Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting's Impact on Vulnerable Households"

Discussants: Raymond Kluender (HBS), Gary Loveman (Well Dot, Inc.)

   * indicates presenter

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