Day 1: Tuesday 19 May
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Welcome
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture: Adeline Delavande (Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Technology Sydney) — Subjective Expectations and Decisions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Session I: Household Finance
Gizem Kosar (New York Fed) — Subjective Uncertainty and the Marginal Propensity to Consume (with Davide Melcangi)
Chiara Dal Bianco (University of Padua) — Survival and Financial Literacy in Investment Decisions Later in Life (with Francesco Maura, Francesca Parodi, and Guglielmo Weber)
Wilbert Van der Klaauw (New York Fed) — Understanding Consumer Demand for “Buy Now, Pay Later” (with Felix Aidala, Gizem Kosar, and Daniel Mangrum)
Philip Schnorpfeil (Goethe University Frankfurt) — The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes (with Andreas Fuster, Virginia Gianinazzi, Andreas Hackethal, and Michael Weber)
12:30 – 14:00 Poster Session and Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session II: Beliefs Formation
Pamela Giustinelli (University of Padua) — Climate Change in the Classroom (with Stefano Carattini, and Marcella Veronesi)
Max Mueller (University of Bonn) — Do Firms Know What Workers Want? (with Simon Cordes)
Immacolata Marino (University of Naples Federico II) — Human Enhancement Technology: Private Demand, Regulation, and the Ethics–Economics Tradeoffs (with Giovanni Immordino, Mario Macis, and Fabrizio Panebianco)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Session III: New Survey Methods
Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University) — We Need to Talk: Audio Surveys and Information Extraction (with Debora Nozza, and Tommaso Nannicini)
Tom Schwantje (Bocconi University)
Management as Rules: Evidence from an Adaptive Bayesian Questionnaire
Day 2: Wednesday 20 May
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture: Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
Subjective Beliefs, Limited Consideration, and Risk Preferences (with Levon Barseghyan)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session IV: Modeling Subjective Expectations
Julio Gálvez (CUNEF Universidad) — Income Uncertainty, Nonlinear Dynamics and Consumption: A Subjective Income Expectations Framework (with Henrique S. Basso, Olympia Bover, and Laura Hospido)
Christine Valente (University of Bristol) — Subjective Expectations of Husbands and Wives and Couples’ Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (with Aureo de Paula, and Grant Miller)
Siqi Wei (IE University) — Modeling Noisy Subjective Probabilities with Application to Heterogenous Income Expectations (with Manuel Arellano)
12:00 – 13:30 Poster Session and Lunch
13:30 – 15:15 Session V: Lightning Round – Issues in Questions Design
Elisa Baldazzi (University of Bologna) — Seeing Stereotypes (with Pietro Biroli, Marina Della Giusta, and Florent Dubois)
Timothy Bond (Purdue University) —Understanding Prejudice: Competition and the Evolution of Racial Attitudes in the Mid-20th Century (with Jingyi Liu)
Jochem de Bresser (Tilburg University) — The Devil is in the Tails: Perceptions and Preferences for Taxes on Income and Wealth (with Marike Knoef)
Lucia Modugno (Bank of Italy) — Transforming Qualitative Survey Data on Investment Plans into Quantitative Insights (with Elena Mattevi)
Isabel Rodriguez (Collegio Carlo Alberto) — Identifying Social Norms using a Validated Survey Measure (with Sharon Barnhardt, Elena Esposito, Pavan Mamidi, and Aron Szekely)
Tobias Schmidt (Deutsche Bundesbank) — When Wording Changes What We Find: The Impact of Inflation Expectations on Spending (with Tiziana Assenza, Stefanie Huber, and Anna Mogilevskaja)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15 Session VI: Inflation Expectations
Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University) — Incentivizing Inflation Expectations (with Sergii Drobot, Ryan Rholes, and Alen Wabitsch)
Reiche Lovisa (Bi Norwegian Business School) — Who’s on FIRE? Household Characteristics and the Formation of Inflation Expectations (with Gabriele Galati, Richhild Moessner, and Maarten van Rooij)
Lukas Leitenbacher (Universität Tübingen) — Wealth and Attention to the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Danish Inheritances (with Alexander Dietrich)
Posters
Day 1: Tuesday 19 May
Nello Esposito (University of Naples Federico II) — Retirement and the Demographic Transition: A Survey Experiment
Francesca Bastagli (Fondazione Agnelli) — The Determinants of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Early Childcare Enrollment: An Inquiry on Torino (with Martino Bernardi, Giovanni Piumatti, and Barbara Romano
Francesco Bilotta (Bocconi University) — Imperfect Metacognition in Standardized Tests
Day 2: Wednesday 20 May
Vincenzo Di Maro (World Bank) — The Puzzle of Household Economies of Scale and Consumption: A Reassessment of Theory and Evidence (with Orazio Attanasio, Aprajit Mahajan, and Elena Pastorino)
Claudia De Goyeneche Macaya (UC Berkeley) — Measuring Children’s Economic Preferences: Experimental Evidence from the Field in Kenya
Tim Wienand (Erasmus University Rotterdam) — Within-family Dynamics of Human Capital Formation: Experimental Evidence on Parental Time Investment (with Hans van Kippersluis, and Niels Rietveld)
Anke Windisch (ifo Institute at the University of Munich) — Economic Literacy (with Raphael Brade, Henning Hermes, Tim Kaiser, Sarah Necker, and Ludger Woessmann)
Scientific and Organizing Committee
Orazio Attanasio (Yale University)
Marco Alberto De Benedetto (University of Calabria)
Maria De Paola (University of Calabria)
Michele Giannola (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Tullio Jappelli (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Armando Miano (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Valeria Zurla (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
With the financial support of: the project “MeToD – Measurement Tools Design,” Macro-area “SH – Social Sciences and Humanities,” Section III, funded under the Italian Science Fund (Fondo Italiano per la Scienza) – FIS 2 Call, pursuant to Ministerial Decree No. 1236 of 01/08/2023, Ministry of University and Research, CUP H53C24001540001, Principal Investigator Prof. Orazio Pietro Attanasio (Advanced Grant), Host Institution: University of Calabria