RPN Household
Research Policy Network (RPNs)

Household Finance

Project lead

Michael Haliassos

Director of CEPR RPN on Household Finance Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance Goethe University Frankfurt

Household Finance was initially established as a CEPR Network in 2015 and expanded into an RPN in 2022. Its purpose is to promote, conduct, shape, and disseminate research in this dynamic field that was initiated about 25 years ago and now attracts the interest of researchers of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, whether in academia, central banks, regulatory agencies, fiscal authorities or in the private sector. This field, in which Europe-based researchers have been active since its beginnings in the late 1980s, has benefitted from the increasing complexity of household portfolios, partly because of the demographic transition and financial innovation, as well as from the development of pioneering data sets and the development of computational and experimental methods. 

Events

The Household Finance RPN plans various events, the most important being the European Workshop in the spring and the European Conference in the fall as well as a monthly online seminar series on current household finance research, spanning geographical locations, career stages, genders, and backgrounds. Network members are also among the organisers of two Seminar Series, the CAFFE (CEPR Advanced Forum on Financial Economics) and on Micro and Macro Implications of Household Finance.

Household Finance RPN Session at the CEPR Paris Symposium 2024

On Monday, 16 December, 09:00 - 10:00 (Paris time), the Household Finance RPN held a Session at Banque de France during the CEPR Paris Symposium 2024.

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PhD Student Paper Prize

The network puts great emphasis on the promotion of young researchers and awards a now annual Best PhD Student Paper Prize, which recognizes highly promising young researchers and now includes a number of them among its recipients.

(N.B. CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2021 was hosted remotely on 6-8 October) 

(N.B. The Fifth European Workshop on Household Finance was hosted remotely in three 2-hour sessions on 7-9 May) 

(N.B The correct dates for the 2019 CEPR European Conference in Household Finance in Rhodes were 20-21 September) 

(N.B. The date for the 2017 Sardinia conference changed from 15-16 September to 6-7 October) 

Members

Cristian Badarinza

Assistant Professor National University Of Singapore

RPN Member, Household Finance

Matteo Benetton

Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley

RPN Member, Household Finance

Marieke Bos

Economist and Deputy Director, the Swedish House of Finance Stockholm School Of Economics; Associate Professor of Finance Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Andreas Fagereng

Professor Bi Norwegian Business School; Senior Researcher Statistics Norway

Andreas Fuster

Associate Professor of Finance, SFI Senior Chair Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Economic Advisor Swiss National Bank (SNB)

Samuli Knüpfer

Professor of Finance, Professor of Ownership Aalto University School of Business

Julia Le Blanc

Economist and Project Leader Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Kaveh Majlesi

Part-time Professor of Economics Lund University; Professor of Economics Monash University

Arna Olafsson

Associate Professor of Finance Copenhagen Business School; Research Fellow Danish Finance Institute

Michaela Pagel

Associate Professor of Finance in the Olin Business School Washington University In St. Louis

Wenlan Qian

Professor of Finance and Real Estate and Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate National University Of Singapore

RPN Member, Household Finance

Stephen Zeldes

Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Economics Division Columbia University

RPN Member, Household Finance

Associate Fellows

Monica Paiella

Professor of Economics University of Naples Parthenope

RPN Associate Fellow, Household Finance

Steering Committee

Steffen Andersen

Head of Research in the Economics and Monetary Policy Department Danmarks Nationalbank

Luigi Guiso

AXA Professor of Household Finance Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Tullio Jappelli

Research Fellow Center For Studies In Economics And Finance; Director of CSEF and Professor of Economics University of Naples Federico II

Matti Keloharju

Aalto Distinguished Professor and Professor of Finance Aalto University School of Business

Giovanna Nicodano

CCA Founding Fellow Collegio Carlo Alberto; Professor of Financial Economics University Of Turin

Kim Peijnenburg

Professor in Finance EDHEC Business School; Professor of Household Finance Tilburg University

Paolo Sodini

Professor of Finance Stockholm School Of Economics; Fellow Swedish House of Finance

Partnerships

Network conferences and workshops are being supported by numerous institutions.

CEPR became an academic partner of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) in 2016, which provided funding to the Household Finance Network and collaborated in organising events until their disbandment in December 2021. TFI supported 60 research projects and reached more than 100 million people in 18 countries around the globe with insights to help them make better financial decisions. Household Finance hosts all research reports produced with the support of TFI. See here all research reports.

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5 December
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CEPR Paris Symposium

CEPR Paris Symposium 2025

5 Dec 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 in Paris, France

The fourth edition of CEPR's annual flagship symposium will again bring together leading voices in European and global economics to discuss the most pressing issues facing the global economy. Academic presentations as well as policy panels and keynote lectures will be organised across a 6-day programme with several parallel streams.