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Mar. 03, 2016
09:00

Auditorium 015, Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (#51), Marcus Family Campus

 

 

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The Pensions, Insurance and Financial Literacy Research Center
 of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev​

IAAP The International Association for Applied Psychology
The Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BGU 

​Cordially invite you to the conference: 

              Finan​cial Liter​acy: Research and Practice

​Re​gistration required by February 23​ / No fees required

 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

9:00

Registration & Refreshments

9:30

Opening Greetings

 

Prof. Oded Lowengart
Dean, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU

9:45

SESSION 1 – RESEARCH OVERVIEW

 

David Leiser, BGU
Financial Literacy – the Need and the Challenges

Carmela Aprea, Chair of Business and Economic Education
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Financial literacy - Design and Evaluation of Educational Plans​

Elsa Fornero
Center for Research on Pension and Welfare Policies University of Turin, Italy
Economic-Financial Literacy and Sustainable Pension Reforms

11:15

Coffee break

11:30

SESSION 2 – FINANCIAL LITERACY IN ISRAEL

 

THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD IN HEBREW

Moderator: Prof. Avia Spivak, BGU

Hila Gluzman,
Head Financial Literacy Department
Ministry of Finance

Daniela Friedman, Supervisor of Social Sciences Education and Director of Civil Education and Shared Life
Ministry of Education

Uriel Lederberg, CEO Paamonim

Ehud Peleg, CEO Israel Consumer Council

13:00

Lunchunch

13:45

SESSION 3 – YOUNG RESEARCHERS PRESENTATIONS

 

Abigail Hurwitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
?Can Smoking Harm Your Long Term Saving Decisions​
 

Shachar Zemach, BGU
Israel's Pension System: the Impact of Demographic and Economic Trends

Zohar Rusou, IDC Herzliya
Gender Differences in Debt Management​​

Noam Brenner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Financial Literacy: Expansion and Translation in the Private, Public and Non-Profit Sectors in Israel

 

Eyal Carmel, BGU
Short and Long Term Impacts of Financial Intervention

15:30

CLOSING REMARKS

 

Prof. Avia Spivak, BGU
Financial Literacy – an Economist’s Analysis


The closest entrance is from the University-North Train Station bridge, and nearest parking is by the BGU Sports Center near the train station on Ben-Gurion Blvd

 

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