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Marieke BosPost-doc
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8161920
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: marieke.bos(at)sofi.su.se
News
12 July 2012: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation together with The Russel Sage Foundation awarded a research grant for our solution to their “Smart Disclosure Research and Demonstration Design" challenge.
20 June 2012: I will be a visiting Scholar at SIFR, the institute for financial research, from August 2012 onwards, located within the Swedish House of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics , Stockholm.
5 Dec 2011: I received a SEK 3 million research grant from Vinnova
for our project titled: "The influence of information, competition and cognitive abilities on consumers credit decisions"
26 Sept 2011: Our research on the removal of negative information from consumers credit reports is mentioned in the press American Banker
Presentations
Friday September 28th, 2012: "Should Defaults Be Forgotten? Evidence From a Mandated Removal" , FDIC; 2nd Annual Consumer Research Symposium , Washington, USA
Friday April 27th, 8:30-14:00, 2012, "The influence of information, competition and cognitive abilities on consumers credit decisions", National Symposium on Consumers' financial Services, Stockholm, Sweden
Tuesday March 20th, 2012, "The influence of information, competition and cognitive abilities on consumers credit decisions" at the committee on Finance of the Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden.
Friday January 6th, 2012, "Distance and Credit", AEA Annual Meetings Session: Alternative Credit and Consumers Rationality, Chicago, USA.
Curriculum Vitae
CV; Marieke Bos
Research Interests
Household finance, Banking, Alternative credit, Applied Microeconomics
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Stockholm University, 2010
M.Sc., Economics, University of Amsterdam, 2001
Short Bio
Since September 2012 Marieke will be a visiting scholar at SIFR, the institute for financial research, located within the Swedish House of Finance. Her post-Doc position is financed through grants from FAS and Vinnova. She also holds a visiting scholar position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Payment Card Center.
Marieke received her Ph.D. from Stockholm University in November 2010. During the academic year 2008-2009 she visited the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Sveriges Riksbank. After her Masters she worked for two years for the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Holland and for a micro-finance project AFET, in West-Africa. Marieke's research focuses mainly on issues within the field of Household finance.
Working papers
1. Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market: Choosing between Pawn and Mainstream Credit
(with Sumit Agarwal)
2. Should Defaults be Forgotten? Evidence from Legally Mandated Removal
(with Leonard Nakamura)
3. Accept or Reject? Do immigrants Have Less access to mainstream credit? Evidence from Swedish Pawnshop Customers
Work in Progress
1. Distance and Credit; New Evidence how Consumers Optimize their Choice.
(with Sumit Agarwal)
2. Pawn Broking in the US and Europe, an overview
(with Paige Skiba and Susan Carter)
3. Does Pawn Credit Get You In or Out of Trouble? Evidence from The Recent Economic Down-Turn
(with Sumit Agarwal and Kasper Roszbach)
4. Intergenerational Transmission of Financial Distress
(with Sumit Agarwal and Kasper Roszbach)
5. Do Immigrants Need Alternative Credit More?
(with Eskil Wadensjö)
6. Cognitive Abilities and Financial Decision Making
(with Sumit Agarwal)
My three favorite guys
Kasper Samuel & Levi Roszbach
My favorite waste of time
Slate's Cultural Gabfest, Slate's Political Gabfest, The Moth, Radiolab, This American Life, The New Yorker
Other links
The Swedish Pawnbrokers Association and Pantbanken Sverige
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