Anastasia Girshina

Anastasia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Deputy Director at MiDA (the Institute for Micro Data at SSE & SHoF).

Anastasia´s research is in the fields of household finance and real estate finance. Some of the topics she has been working with lately are the role of education and gender for saving decisions, portfolio choice, and wealth accumulation.

Before joining the Swedish House of Finance, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has also served as an Economist at the Financial Stability Department of the Luxembourg Central Bank.

Working papers:

Peer effects in stock market participation: Evidence from immigration (with Thomas Y. Mathä and Michael Ziegelmeyer)

Implications of Fiscal Policy for Housing Tenure Decisions

Gender Differences in Wealth and the Role of Financial Literacy

Wealth, savings, and returns over the life cycle: the role of education

Research in progress:

Intermediation in Household Finance: Competition and Welfare (with Paolo Sodini and Jan Starmans)

Herding in Financial Markets (with Alexander Ljungqvist and Paolo Sodini)

Contact information

Researcher, Swedish House of Finance

Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, SSE

Deputy Director of MiDa – the Institute for Micro Data at SSE & SHoF

anastasia.girshina@hhs.se

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Consumer Behavior in Financial Markets 2020 “From Patriarchy to Partnership: Gender Equality and Household Finance” Luana Zaccaria. Discussant: Anastasia Girshina

Based on popular responses, the male spouse is typically in charge of investments such as pensions and personal loans, i.e. consequential decision-making in financial management within the household. Whereas females are typically left with day-to-day spending, i.e. short term decisions. Can gender norms, however, have material consequences on household welfare? Yes. And if the decision making process systematically excludes women regardless of their abilities, the overall efficiency may be compromised. Hear speaker Luana Zaccaria present the key findings from the paper ‘From Patriarchy to Partnership: Gender Equality and Household Finance,’ followed by a commentary by Anastasia Girshina.