- Discussion of Boerma, Karabarbounis, “Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps,” NBER 37th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, March 2022.
- Discussion of Goldstein, Kopytov, Shen, and Xiang, “On ESG Investing: Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices” and Berg, Koelbel, Pavlova, and Rigobon, “ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise,” Golub Center for Finance and Policy 8th Annual Conference, Financial Policy and the Environment, October 2021.
- Discussion of Balasubramaniam, Campbell, Ramadorai and Ranish, "Who Owns What? A Factor Model for Direct Stockholding" Virtual Finance Workshop, Demand-based Asset Pricing, Online, June 2021.
- Discussion of Loos, Meyer, and Pagel, “Consumption out of Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention” CEPR Sixth European Workshop on Household Finance, Online, April 2021.
- Discussion of Calvet, Campbell, Gomes, and Sodini, “The Cross-Section of Household Preferences” Micro and Macro Implications of Household Behaviour and Financial Decision-Making Seminar (CEPR Network on Household Finance, Imperial, LSE, UCL, IFS), March 2021.
- Discussion of session “AEA Session: Consumer Spending During a Pandemic: International Evidence from Transaction-Level Data,” ASSA Virtual Annual Meeting, January 2021.
- Discussion of Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Weber, “Fiscal Policy and Households’ Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial,” American Finance Association Annual Meeting, remote, January 2021.
- Discussion of Calvet, Celerier, Sodini and Vallee, "Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?" at NBER Summer Institute 2020 Asset Pricing Meetings, Cambridge MA, July 2020.
- Discussion of Cox et al. "The U.S. Labor Market during the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession," and Cajner et al. "Initial Impacts Of The Pandemic On Consumer Behavior: Evidence From Linked Income, Spending, And Savings Data," at Special Edition Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2020: COVID-19 and the economy, Zoom, June 2020.
- Discussion of Arna Olafsson and Michaela Pagel, "The Ostrich is Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity," North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia PA, January 2018.
- Discussion of Miguel Faria-e-Castro, “Fiscal Multipliers and Financial Crises,” NBER Summer Institute Capital Markets and the Economy, Cambridge MA, July 2017.
- Discussion of David Berger, Nicholas Turner, and Eric Zwick, “Stimulating Housing Markets,” NBER Summer Institute Real Estate Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2016.
- Discussion of Baker and Kueng, "Margins to Adjustment to Price and Sales Tax Changes: New Evidence from Retailer-Customer Linked Panel Data", NBER Summer Institute EFG Price Dynamics Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2016.
- Discussion of Lorenz Kueng, "Explaining Consumption Excess Sensitivity with Near-Rationality: Evidence from Large Predetermined Payments," NBER Summer Institute EFG Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2016.
- Discussion of Hochfellner, Montes, Schmalz, and Sosyura, “Winners and Losers of Financial Crises: Evidence from Individuals and Firms” American Finance Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, January 2016.
- Discussion of Botsch and Malmendier, "Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice – Evidence from Residential Mortgages” NBER Household Finance Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2015.
- Discussion of D'Acunto, Hoang, and Weber, "Inflation Expectations and Consumption Expenditure" at Macro Finance Society 5th Macro Finance Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston MA, May 2015.
- Discussion of Di Maggio, Kermani, and Ramcharan, “Monetary Policy Pass-Through: Household Consumption and Voluntary Deleveraging" at NBER Monetary Economics Meeting, Cambridge MA, November 2014.
- Discussion of Betermier, Calvet, and Sodini, “Who are the Value and Growth Investors?” at NBER Summer Institute Asset Pricing Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2014.
- Discussion of Javed Ahmed, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, ‘Made Poorer by Choice: Worker Outcomes in Social Security v. Private Retirement Accounts’ at American Finance Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia PA, January 2014.
- Discussion of Sumit Agarwal and Wenlan Qian, ‘Consumption and Debt Response to Unanticipated Income Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore’ at American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia PA, January 2014.
- Discussion of Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider, “Banks’ Risk Exposures” at Macroeconomic Financial Modeling and Macroeconomic Fragility Conference, Cambridge MA, October 2013.
- Discussion of Jacopo Cimadomo, Sebastian Hauptmeier, and Tom Zimmermann, “Fiscal Consolidations and Bank Balance Sheets” at the 4th BU/Boston Fed Conference on Macro-Finance Linkages, Boston MA, October 2013.
- Discussion of Atif Mian and Amir Sufi “The Effect of Interest Rates and Collateral Value Shocks on Household Spending: Evidence from Mortgage Refinancing,” at the Goldman Sachs Fellows Conference, New York NY, September 2013.
- Discussion of Viktor Tsyrennikov, Lawrence Blume, David Easley, Timothy Cogley, and Thomas J. Sargent, “Welfare, Paternalism, and Market Incompleteness” at the NBER Summer Institute, Capital Markets and the Economy, Cambridge MA, July 2013.
- Discussion of Pablo Kurlat and Laura Veldkamp, “De-Regulating Markets for Financial Information” at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Chicago IL, January 2012.
- Discussion of John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Christopher Polk, “Hard Times,” at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Chicago IL, January 2012 .
- Discussion of Mark Aguiar and Mark Bils, “Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?” at the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting, Cambridge MA, July 2011.
- Discussion of Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, “The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 Cash for Clunkers Program” at the NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Cambridge MA, November 2010.
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