01
Life-long Financial Security
How individuals accumulate, deploy, and transmit wealth across their lifetimes — savings, debt, entrepreneurship, mortality beliefs, and bequests.
9 papers · JFE, RFS, J. Finance, Penn Press
02
Retail Trading
Behavioral biases in financial markets — dynamic inconsistency, the disposition effect, leverage constraints, and the role of social networks in trading decisions.
6 papers · AER, RFS, JFE, FRB Cleveland
03
Consumer Finance
Household debt and credit access, fair lending, political interference in financial regulation, and consumer protection through the CFPB.
9 papers · JFE, RFS, SSRN, FRB Cleveland
05
Financial Institutions & FinTech
How legal institutions, political power, and financial technologies shape the supply of credit and the behavior of financial intermediaries.
8 papers · JFE, RFS, World Bank, JFE
06
Behavioral & Social Finance
Biased beliefs, dynamic inconsistency, and the sociology of investing — including how social networks propagate active trading strategies and behavioral mistakes.
7 papers · AER, RFS, J. Finance, JEBO