Brown Bag Lunch Initiative

The G53 Network Brown Bag Lunch initiative is part of the G53 Network’s overall goal of building a strong academic community of researchers who are working to tackle financial illiteracy. The G53 Network Brown Bag Lunch initiative facilitates rigorous research, encourages the exchange of ideas, and nurtures the next generation of researchers.

Once a month, senior researchers, assistant professors, postdocs, and graduate students can share research in progress with an expert panel of Network members.

The G53 Network Brown Bag Lunch is held virtually to offer opportunities for researchers to connect with Network members globally.

If you are interested in sharing your work in progress, email us at contact@g53network.org. Kindly attach the latest version of your working paper and indicate your:

  • Name
  • Research title
  • Affiliation
  • Country

List of presentations:

  • December 11, 2024: Taha Choukhmane (MIT Sloan School of Management): “Efficiency in Household Decision Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples”
  • October 30, 2024: Adam Leive (UC Berkeley): “Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices”
  • September 25, 2024: Tobias Wekhof (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): “The Impact of Sustainable Finance Literacy on Investment Decisions,” co-authored with Massimo Filippini and Markus Leippold.
  • May 25, 2023: Marco Angrisani (University of Southern California): “The Analysis of Household Financial Outcomes through Survey and Transaction Data”
  • April 26, 2023: Jialu Streeter (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford): “Financial Literacy, Decision-Making, and Financial Outcomes”
  • March 29, 2023: Gökhan Buturak (University of Vaasa, Finland): “The Effect of Financial Education on Risky Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence”
  • March 1, 2023: Juan Gallardo (Kansas State University): “The effects of student loan on financial worry”
  • February 1, 2023: Gianni Nicolini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy): “Delivery Methods in Financial Education: A Comparative Analysis of Face-to-Face Classes, Live Streaming, Videos, and Gaming”
  • November 30, 2022: Melody Harvey (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Who Recalls Taking Personal Finance in High School?”
  • October 26, 2022: Tim Kaiser (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany): “Is patience malleable via educational intervention? Evidence from field experiments.”
  • September 28, 2022: Marco Trombetta (IE Business School, Spain): “Accounting and finance literacy and entrepreneurship: an exploratory study.”
  • July 27, 2022: Giovanni Gallo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Alessia Sconti (The George Washington University School of Business, GFLEC): “How Much Does Financial Literacy Matter? Evidence on Inequality Levels.”
  • June 29, 2022: Tabea Bucher-Koenen (University of Mannheim, Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE, ZEW): “Disparities in financial literacy, pension planning, and saving behavior,” jointly written with A. Hackethal, J. Kasinge & C. Laudenbach.
  • May 25, 2022: Kenneth De Beckker (Open University, The Netherlands, KU Leuven, Belgium): “Investment Criteria of Mutual Fund Investors: Does Financial Literacy Alter Individual Choices?”
  • April 27, 2022: Megan Hunter (Boston College Carroll School of Management): “Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy,” jointly written with Samuel Antill (HBS).
  • March 30, 2022: Dongni Duan (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK): “Growing up with Finance: Special Economic Zoning and Household Finances in China.”
  • February 25, 2022: Jasmira Wiersma (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): “Skating on thin ice: New evidence on financial fragility.”
  • January 31, 2022:  Luis Oberrauch (University of Tuebingen, Germany): “Measuring financial literacy: psychometric evidence.”