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CALL FOR PAPERS

Household Financial Decision Making and Behaviour
6-8 May 2014
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) is hosting a workshop on individual and household financial decision making and behaviour in financial markets. NIBS is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and is a collaborative research initiative between three of the UK’s primary centres for behavioural science research: the CeDEx group at University of Nottingham; the CBESS group at University of East Anglia; and the Behavioural Science groups (Warwick Business School and Psychology) at University of Warwick. NIBS is a cross disciplinary group including researchers from economics, psychology and computer science.

We invite contributions of completed research for this workshop on individual and household financial decision making and behaviour in financial markets. We welcome papers on theoretical and applied topics, including empirical work based on analysis of secondary survey and administrative data, studies using laboratory or field experiments, applications of monitoring technologies (for example eye tracking and fMRI) and studies using non-standard data analysis techniques.

We particularly welcome contributions which involve collaboration with non-academic organisations (e.g. private sector, third sector or regulators) who may have provided data or have been involved in the research design and/or implementation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• individual and household borrowing decisions, including decisions about specific types of credit and debt such as mortgages and credit cards, payday and peer-to-peer lending
• saving and portfolio choices including retirement saving, asset allocation decisions, insurance choices and housing investments
• financial literacy, capability and the role of cognitive skills in financial decision making
• the role of preferences towards risk in saving and borrowing decisions, portfolio choice and insurance
• the impact of self-control and time preferences in saving and borrowing choices
• neuroeconomic approaches to understanding individual financial decisions
• regulation of financial markets, including regulatory approaches to suboptimal consumer behaviour and financial education.

Programme Committee: Abigail Barr, John Gathergood, Chris Starmer, Neil Stewart

Submission Procedure and Deadlines:

Extended abstracts or papers should be submitted by e-mail to suzanne.robey@nottingham.ac.uk by 23 February 2014 (only electronic submissions will be considered). Acceptance and inclusion in the programme will be confirmed by 28 March 2014.

If you would like to attend the workshop, but do not wish to present a paper, you can register your interest by e-mailing suzanne.robey@nottingham.ac.uk directly. Spaces will be limited and we will reserve some, with funding for expenses, for participation from non-academic organisations. We will confirm by 28 March 2014 whether we can offer you a place on this basis.

Logistic Information:

The workshop will take place at the East Midlands Conference Centre

located at the University of Nottingham. Further logistic details will be provided once the programme is confirmed.

If you have any administrative questions please contact suzanne.robey@nottingham.ac.uk

Please share this call for papers with other researchers on financial decision making and behaviour, we welcome submissions from a broad range of researchers and disciplinary backgrounds. However, due to space constraints it may not be possible to invite everyone who receives this call for papers to attend the workshop.

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