Topics: 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...

This workshop provides a forum for theoretical and applied research and focuses on the interaction between household heterogeneity and macroeconomic developments. The organisers encourage submissions in the following broad areas: - household heterogeneity and the monetary transmission...