Consumption Project
Events
CEPR Conference: "New Consumption Data"
Copenhagen, 4-5 September 2019
Hosted By: University of Copenhagen and Center for Economic Behavior & Inequality (CEBI)
Organizers: Camille Landais (LSE, STICERD and CEPR) and Soren Leth-Petersen (University of Copenhagen and CEPR)
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Asset returns and spending
- Spending effects of unemployment events
- Welfare consequences of social insurance programs
- The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending
- Validation of new spending measures
- Consumption inequality
- Spending effects of public policies
- Insurance within the family
- Children and spending
The conference schedule and all the papers given are available to download from CEPR's website.
CEPR Public Economics Conference: "New perspectives on consumption measures"
16-17 December 2016
Hosted By: STICERD, London School of Economics
Sponsored By: Economics Research Center (ERC)
Organizers: Richard William Blundell, Camille Landais, Magne Mogstad and Johannes Spinnewijn.
The recent efforts to exploit new administrative data and explore new methods to measure consumption and consumption responses are contributing to an extremely active and fruitful area of research, opening new and interesting perspectives in various fields in economics, from labour to public economics, from household finance to macroeconomics.
A conference dedicated to "New perspectives on consumption measures" was hosted at STICERD LSE over 16-17 December 2016.The goal of this conference was to:
- Present and discuss new data and methods to measure income and consumption dynamics.
- Present and discuss new facts about consumption inequality, consumption responses to shocks and the links between consumption and macroeconomic volatility.
- Present applications of these new consumption measures in the fields of labour and public economics. In particular, present how these new consumption measures can help assess the welfare consequences of social insurance programs, and help determine the optimal features of dynamic tax and social insurance systems.
- Present applications of these new measures of consumption and marginal propensities to consume in macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents.
The conference schedule and all the papers given are available to download from http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/cepr2016/