3rd CEAR-RSI Household Finance Workshop
November 11, 2022 - November 12, 2022
Hotel le Saint-Sulpice, Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada
General Information
This workshop brings together researchers interested in household financial decision-making. Researchers from a variety of disciplines will find this workshop of interest, including economics, finance, risk management, insurance, and psychology. This workshop is held jointly by the Retirement and Savings Institute (RSI, https://ire.hec.ca/) at HEC Montréal and the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR, https://cear.gsu.edu/) at Georgia State University. This is the 3rd workshop in this series.
We typically allocate one hour for each paper (40 minute presentation, 10 minutes for an assigned discussant, and a 10 minute general discussion) to provide participants with the opportunity for an in-depth presentation of their work. All sessions will be plenary.
Keynote Speaker
The keynote address will be given by Professor Annamaria Lusardi from George Washington University, where she is University Professor of Economics and Accountancy. Professor Lusardi is the founder and academic director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC), and the co-chair of the G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network (G53 Network). Previously, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she taught for twenty years. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and an honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration) from the University of Vaasa in Finland. Professor Lusardi received numerous research awards. In both 2017 and 2021, she was included in the Clarivate list, which recognizes exceptional research influence demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. In August 2017, she was appointed Director of the Financial Education Committee in charge of designing the national strategy for financial literacy in Italy. In 2019, she was included in the Forbes list of the 100 successful women in Italy. She was recently listed in the top 100 leaders in wealth management in We Wealth.
Attendance
If you would like to attend this workshop, please register using the link above. It is free to register and attend, but we are only providing travel support for presenters and select invited guests. Please indicate during registration if you have any dietary restrictions or special requests, and we will try our best to accommodate.
Organizer
Professor Philippe d’Astous (HEC Montréal) is the primary local organizer of this workshop. Contact him at [email protected] about the substance of the workshop, and contact Lee Boyle at [email protected] with questions about participation and logistics.
Date and Location
We are aiming for this workshop to be held in-person on November 11 and 12, 2022 at Hotel le Saint-Sulpice, which is located in Old Montreal. The address is 414 Rue Saint-Sulpice, Montréal, QC H2Y 2V5, Canada. If travels are restricted due to the COVID-19 situation, we will be prepared to host the workshop fully remotely.
