Household Finance

The department Household Finance conducts research on the financial decisions of private households and the interplay between the supply of and the demand for financial services. The research projects in this area are united by the overarching goal of developing solutions that lead to better financial decisions by households. In addition to the microeconomic perspective, the department also follows a macroeconomic perspective, for example concerning the design of pension systems as a determinant of both the depth and width of capital markets and long-term wealth formation in the household sector of an economy.

Publications

Author/s Title Area Type Published
Tobin Hanspal The Effect of Personal Financing Disruptions on Entrepreneurship
SAFE Working Paper No. 161 		Law and Finance, Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Alexander Ludwig Das Deutsche Rentensystem: Thesen zur derzeitigen Diskussion um „Umkehr“-Reformen
White Paper No. 40 		Household Finance Policy Paper 2016
Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell Older People’s Willingness to Delay Social Security Claiming
SAFE Working Paper No. 170 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Andreas Hubener, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios
Review of Financial Studies 		Household Finance Published Paper 2016
Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs
Journal of Economic Theory 		Household Finance, Macro Finance Published Paper 2016
Holger Kraft, Claus Munk, Farina Weiss Predictors and Portfolios Over the Life Cycle
SAFE Working Paper No. 139 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Nathanael Vellekoop The Impact of Long-Run Macroeconomic Experiences on Personality
SAFE Working Paper No. 142 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Petr Jakubik, Sven-Thorsten Jakusch On the Applicability of Maximum Likelihood Methods: From Experimental to Financial Data
SAFE Working Paper No. 148 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Andreas Hackethal, Sven-Thorsten Jakusch, Steffen Meyer Taming Models of Prospect Theory in the Wild? Estimation of Vlcek and Hens (2011)
SAFE Working Paper No. 146 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016
Andreas Hackethal, Sven-Thorsten Jakusch, Steffen Meyer Taring All Investors with the Same Brush? Evidence for Heterogeneity in Individual Preferences from a Maximum Likelihood Approach
SAFE Working Paper No. 147 		Household Finance SAFE Working Paper 2016

Current Research Team

Researcher Position
Bäckman, Claes Postdoctoral Researcher
Balakina, Olga Postdoctoral Researcher
Chen, Jasmine Research Assistant
Duraj, Kamila Research Assistant
Eyting, Markus Postdoctoral Researcher
Famulok, Jakob Research Assistant
Gill, Andrej SAFE Fellow
Hackethal, Andreas Bridge Professor
Hett, Florian SAFE Fellow
Huang, Zhuowei Postdoctoral Researcher
Jürß, Anika Research Assistant
Laudenbach, Christine Professor
Maurer, Raimond SAFE Fellow
Mitchell, Olivia S. SAFE Fellow
Schirmer, Philipp Research Assistant
Wies, Simone SAFE Fellow
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