2026 Workshop Eighth Edition
Date
April 10, 2026
Location
Kravis Hall
Columbia Business School
645 W. 130th Street, New York, NY
Columbia Business School
645 W. 130th Street, New York, NY
Organizers
Boaz Abramson
Xuelin Li
Milena Wittwer
Federico Mainardi
Simon Oh
Bruno Pellegrino
Dominik Supera
Emmanuel Yimfor
Program
8:30 - 9:30
Check-in & Breakfast — Kravis 890
Session 1: Retirement & Savings (Chair: Milena Wittwer) — Kravis 890
9:30 - 10:10
Hanbin Yang (LBS)
"Default Options and Market Power: Evidence from Target-Date Funds"
10:10 - 10:50
Thomas Geelen (Penn State)
"Old Workers, New Capital"
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break — Kravis 810
Session 2: Technology Adoption (Chair: Boaz Abramson) — Kravis 890
11:20 - 12:00
Taha Choukmane (MIT Sloan)
"AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications"
12:00 - 12:40
Gaurav Chiplunkar (UVA Darden)
"Internet as a General-Purpose Technology: Evidence from Colombian Firms"
Lunch (12:40 - 2:00)
Pick up food in Kravis 810, seating in Kravis 880
Session 3: Insurance Markets (Chair: Xuelin Li) — Kravis 890
2:00 - 2:40
Tong Liu (MIT Sloan)
"Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets"
2:40 - 3:20
Derek Wenning (Indiana Kelley)
"From Long to Short: How Interest Rates Shape Life Insurance Markets"
3:20 - 3:50
Coffee Break — Kravis 810
Session 4: Frictions in Household Finance (Chair: Federico Mainardi) — Kravis 890
3:50 - 4:30
Sean Wu (NYU Stern)
"Banking on Inattention"
4:30 - 5:10
Ray Kluender (HBS)
"Mental Accounting for Credit: Evidence from a Large-Scale Credit-Limit Experiment"
Dinner (6:00)
5:30
Meet at Kravis Lobby
6:00
Tasca — 505 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024