FIRN Household Finance Annual Meeting
Hosted by Macquarie University FinTech and Banking Research Centre - Monash Business School
15 April 2026
Venue: Macquarie University Business School City Campus
The FIRN Household Finance Annual Meeting is a dedicated forum for academics to present and discuss cutting-edge research on household financial behaviour, decision-making, and policy implications. This annual event builds on FIRN’s strong tradition of focused research meetings. We invite submissions of unpublished empirical, theoretical or experimental work that explores household finance from diverse angles including the intersection with FinTech, digital finance and behavioural approaches.
Topics of Interest
We welcome papers on, but not limited to:
- Consumption, saving, borrowing and debt decisions at the household level
- Household financial literacy, education and behaviour
- Mortgage markets, housing finance and real-estate effects on households
- Household portfolio choice and investment behaviour
- Behavioural biases and heuristics in household financial decision-making
- FinTech and digital financial inclusion
- Household responses to macroeconomic shocks, inflation expectations and balance-sheet dynamics
- Regret, intertemporal choice, risk tolerance, and heterogeneity across households
- Household resilience, financial fragility and policy interventions
- Small Business or Private Firm Financial Decision-making
Format & Keynote
The conference will feature:
• A keynote speaker: Professor Scott R. Baker, Wisconsin School of Business
• Paper presentation sessions with discussants
• Networking events and social functions
• Registration is free for all participants
Organising Committee
- A/Prof Di Bu, Macquarie University FinTech and Banking Research Centre
- Professor Huu Nhan Duong, Monash Business School
- Dr. Mingzhe Gao, Macquarie University FinTech and Banking Research Centre
- Professor Yin Liao, Macquarie Business School
- Professor Kaveh Mjlesi, Monash Business School
- Dr. Hieu Nguyen, Macquarie University FinTech and Banking Research Centre
For enquiries, please contact:
A/Prof Di Bu, Macquarie University FinTech and Banking Research Centre
Di.bu@mq.edu.au;
Professor Kaveh Majlesi, Monash Business School
kaveh.majlesi@monash.edu;
Submit papers here
Submission deadline: 15 January 2026 (23:59 AEDT)
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2026
Submission procedure:
- Submit two PDF versions of your paper: (i) an anonymous version with no author identifiers, and (ii) a version with full author details, indicating the corresponding author who is expected to present the paper.
- Papers must be unpublished and not (conditionally) accepted for journals at the time of submission.
- There is no submission fee.
Registration
- Registration details will be available via the FIRN website and Macquarie Business School event pages.
- Registration will include catering and access to the full programme.
- Registration is free for all participants
Professor Scott R. Baker, Wisconsin School of Business
Scott Ross Baker is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Wisconsin and is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research is concentrated in empirical finance and macroeconomics and he has taught courses on Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Corporate Finance.
He is currently engaged in a variety of research projects regarding household financial choices and the measurement of consumption, as well as research regarding the effects of policy uncertainty on financial markets and growth.
Scott joined the Finance Department in the Wisconsin School of Business in 2025. He was born and raised in San Diego, California and received B.A.’s in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
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