FDIC to Hold 8th Annual Consumer Research Symposium in Arlington, Virginia — 2018-10-05

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will sponsor its 8th Annual Consumer Research Symposium on October 12, 2018. The conference will feature brief remarks by FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams, presentations of selected research papers, and a distinguished guest lecture on fairness in machine learning from Aaron Roth, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. More than 100 research papers were submitted for consideration, and eight were selected to be presented at the conference. These papers will be discussed during four panel sessions focusing on interventions to improve financial behavior, liquidity shocks and household consumption, mortgage markets and consumer decision-making. The goal of the symposium is to facilitate discussion of recent research on consumers' capabilities, knowledge, preferences, and experiences in the market for financial products and services, as well as the effects of public policy interventions and new regulations on consumers, households, communities, and financial institutions.