Papers, slides and videos
Friday, November 15, 2019
Financial Sophistication and Conflicts of Interest: Evidence from the Investment Menus Offered in 401(k) Plans
Aleksandar Andonov, Mike Qinghao Mao
Slides
Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations
Mathias Kronlund, Veronika K. Pool, Clemens Sialm, Irina Stefanescu
Slides
White-labels, brands and trust: How mutual fund labels affect retirement portfolios
Julie Agnew, Angela Hung, Nicole Votolato Montgomery, Susan Thorp
Slides
Making Your Money Last a Lifetime
Keynote: Olivia S. Mitchell
Papers :
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Default Options and Retirement Saving Dynamics
Taha Choukhmane
Slides
Labor Market Risk and the Private Value of Social Security
Sylvain Catherine
Slides
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Consumption Quality: A New Perspective on the Welfare Implications of Business Cycle Fluctuations
Casper Nordal Jørgensen, Leslie Sheng Shen
Slides
Can Risk be Shared Across Investor Cohorts? Evidence from a Popular Savings Product
Johan Hombert, Victor Lyonnet
About the event
This workshop brought together researchers interested in household financial decision-making. This workshop was held jointly by the Retirement and Savings Institute (RSI) at HEC Montréal and the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) at Georgia State University. This was the 2nd workshop in this series. Subjects of particular interest included:
- Pensions and retirement
- Financial literacy
- Consumption-saving decisions
- Financial planning and advice
- Financial delinquency and bankruptcy
- Household insurance and risk management
Keynote address
The keynote address was be given by Olivia S. Mitchell, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
From the website of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania:
Dr. Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, as well as Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research; all at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania which she joined in 1993. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell serves as a Research Associate at the NBER; Independent Director on the Wells Fargo Fund Boards; Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan; Member of the Executive Board for the Michigan Retirement Research Center; and Senior Scholar at the Singapore Management University. She also advises the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation UNSW and is Faculty Affiliate of the Wharton Public Policy Initiative. She received the MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BA in Economics from Harvard University. She is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.
Organizer
Professor Philippe d’Astous (HEC Montréal) was the primary local organizer of this workshop. Should you have questions, please contact him at philippe.dastous@hec.ca.
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