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Mission

The primary aim of the IBHF is to become a leading center in the areas of household and behavioral finance and a key player in the consumer finance policy debates. IBHF affiliates strive to study investment decision making behavior with the goal of shedding light on how to better model observed financial behavior and to inform consumer finance related policies and regulation.

The IBHF cooperates with its network of academics, finance industry professionals, government agencies, and other financial research centers to facilitate the development of research and information. The IBHF works to achieve its mission by focusing on six major program areas: visiting fellows, post-doctoral research associates, biennial household and behavioral finance symposium, research scholars program, financial education outreach workshops, and a white paper series.


Post-Doctoral Research Associates and Visiting Research Fellows

Scholars from other universities, research institutes, and government agencies can apply for post-doctoral research assoicate and visiting fellow positions with the IBHF. These individuals will spend time in residence at Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management to engage in research, discussions, and scholarly collaborations concerned with behavioral and household finance issues.

 

Jermaine Toney, Ph.D.

(September 2017 - September 2019)

Dr. Toney visits the IBHF as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr. Toney’s research uses applied microeconometric tools to explore the transmission of socioeconomic status across generations and intergroup experiences in accessing credit and asset markets. His current work is supported by the NSF to examine how disparities in health affect a household's financial status. He has taught in the Department of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York.

Dr. Toney holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil in Economics from the New School for Social Research and a B.A from the University of St. Thomas.

CV

https://www.jermainetoney.com/

 

Post-doctoral Reflections

  • I greatly appreciated being able to work as a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation award as a postdoctoral research fellow, while having access to effective mentorship through Vicki Bogan.
  • Through my postdoctoral activities, I have developed an advanced knowledge of finance and health economics. Such activities have allowed me to establish myself as a scholar that works at the intersection of finance, family and health.
  • The opportunities for professional development and training were outstanding. Scholars in the IBHF Group, the IBHF Household and Behavioral Finance Symposium, the Finance Area Seminar, Finance Brownbag, Health Economics seminar and the NextGen Professors Program at Cornell University were key sources of personal connection and intellectual nourishment.  
  • Another result was that new components were added to my research pipeline, and previous manuscripts were further developed or published.
  • One goal of the postdoctoral experience was to obtain a tenure-track academic position where I could impact public policy through my economic research. The postdoctoral fellowship strengthened my candidacy for a professorial position by providing me with key resources (training, time for research and career preparation).

 


Jan Salland - Ph.D. Student, Helmut Schmidt University

(July 2015 - October 2015)

Jan was a visitor to the IBHF from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany where he was a Ph.D. student. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. His research interests are health economics, behavioral finance and household finance. During his stay at the IBHF, he worked on projects investigating the importance of (household financial) income comparison in the context of collateralized and non-collateralized debt accumulation, propelled by status-maintenance purposes.