Consumer Financial Decision Making
Introduction
2022 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, 15-17 May 2022; Deadline 17 Dec
INTEREST CATEGORY: SECTORS
POSTING TYPE: Calls: Conferences
Author: Matthew Meister
2022 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 17th, 2022
Conference Dates: May 15th-17th, 2022
Conference Location: St. Julien Hotel & Spa Boulder, Colorado
Conference Co-Chairs: Tony Cookson and Phil Fernbach
Conference Founders: John Lynch and Donald Lichtenstein
The Boulder Summer Conference in Consumer Financial Decision Making
is the world’s foremost conference for discussion of interdisciplinary research on consumer financial decision making. This year the conference will be held in sunny Boulder, Colorado over three days.
Plenary papers:
As in past years, our plenary sessions will each have two related papers from different disciplines, with a facilitated follow-up discussion. To submit a 1-page abstract of your paper please follow this link:
Background:
Consumer welfare is strongly affected by household financial decisions large and small: choosing mortgages; saving to fund college education or retirement; using credit cards to fund current consumption; choosing how to “decumulate” savings in retirement; deciding how to pay for health care and insurance; and investing in the stock market, managing debt in the face of financial distress. This conference brings together outstanding scholars from around the world in a unique interdisciplinary conversation with regulators, business people in financial services, and consumer advocates working on problems of consumer financial decision making.
Our goal is to stimulate cross-disciplinary conversation and improve basic and applied research in the emerging area of consumer financial decision making. This research can inform our understanding of how consumers actually make such decisions and how consumers can be helped to make better decisions by innovations in public policy, business, and consumer education. Please see the past programs on the conference website to see abstracts of research by scholars in economics, psychology, sociology, behavioral finance, consumer research, decision sciences, behavioral economics, and law. Our conference format allows a very high level of opportunity for conversation and interaction around the ideas presented. We are excited to bring that back in person this year.
The conference program committee will select papers based on extended abstracts. Selected papers must not be published prior to the conference. Authors submitting a competitive paper abstract must commit to having a paper that is complete and available for review one month prior to the conference. Selections will be based on quality, relevance to consumers’ financial decision-making, and contribution to breadth of topics and disciplinary approaches. We consider not just the individual merits of the papers, but how they pair with another submission from a scholar in a different field.
Submitting Abstracts
To submit an extended abstract for the plenary sessions (1 page single spaced pdf) please fill in the following qualtrics survey:
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Boulder!