—— Agenda ——
  Day 1 April 16, 2009  
  Welcome  
  Anna Alvarez Boyd,
Associate Director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
  Consumer Preferences: Expanding the scope for innovation  
 
  • Getting By or Getting Ahead? Consumers' views on innovative financial services
       Jennifer Romich, University of Washington
       Eric Waithaka, University of Washington
       Sarah Gordon, Center for Financial Services Innovation
  • Beyond Usury: A study of credit card use and preference among low-income consumers
       Angela Littwin, Harvard Law School
 
  Break  
  Consumer Behaviors: Opportunities for innovative products  
 
  • Consumer Cash Flow and the Cost of Liquidity
       Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
       Paige Marta Skiba, Vanderbilt University
       Jeremy Tobacman, University of Pennsylvania
  • Where Does It Go? Spending by the financially constrained
       Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School
       John Thompson, H&R Block
       Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School
 
  Lunch  
  Guest Speaker:
Honorable Rev. Floyd H. Flake
Senior Pastor
Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York
 
  Financial Education and Market Participation: The effectiveness of financial education in shaping preferences, behaviors and outcomes  
 
  • Does Financial Education Affect Soldiers' Financial Behaviors?
       Jeanne Hogarth, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of education, financial literacy and cognitive ability on financial market participation
       Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School
       Gauri Kartini Shastry, Harvard University
 
  Break  
  Credit Market Structures and Outcomes: Discrimination as a case  
 
  • Racial Dispersion in Consumer Credit Interest Rates
       Wendy Edelberg, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Segregation and the Subprime Lending Crisis
       Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University
       Derek S. Hyra, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
       Robert N. Renner, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
 
  Reception  
  Day 2 April 17, 2009  
  Welcome  
  Tammy Edwards
Community Affairs Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
 
  Opening Remarks  
  Thomas M. Hoenig
President
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
 
  Mortgage Products and Characteristics: Effects on consumer choice and repayment behavior  
 
  • You Could Lose Your Home: The effects of state policies mandating subprime mortgage risk disclosures on consumer evaluations of loan offers
       J. Michael Collins, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages: Disaggregating effects using propensity score models
       Lei Ding, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
       Roberto G. Quercia, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
       Wei Li, Center for Responsible Lending
       Janneke Ratcliffe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 
  Break  
  Mortgage Market Responses: Changing markets, changing options  
 
  • From FHA to Subprime and Back?
       Marsha Courchane, CRA, International
       Rajeev Darolia, CRA, International
       Peter Zorn, Freddie Mac
  • An Analysis of the Neighborhood Impacts of a Mortgage Assistance Program
       Wenhua Di, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
       Jielai Ma, University of Texas at Dallas
       James Murdoch, University of Texas at Dallas
 
  Lunch  
  Keynote Speaker:
Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
 
  Adjourn