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ACCI 2025 Annual Conference

“Enhancing Consumer Well-being: Equity and Resilience”
April 15-17, 2025, Omni William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Note: ACCI’s Journal of Consumer Affairs has announced a call for papers for a special issue "Enhancing Consumer Well-Being: Equity and Resilience" The submission deadline for that call is September 1, 2025.

Invited Lecturers

Colston E. Warne Lecture

Emily Gallagher
Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

Emily Gallagher is an assistant professor of finance in the real estate track of the Leeds School of Business. Recent papers in household finance examine the effect of changes in U.S. health policy on rent and mortgage delinquency rates, eviction/foreclosure costs, and household savings decisions. Her work often involves quasi-experimental designs, using large policy changes or natural disasters as tools to better understand the financial calculus of households. She has published papers in the Journal of Public Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Among other outlets, her research has been featured in MarketWatch, The Atlantic’s CityLab; AARP Magazine, Vox’s ‘The Weeds’ podcast, Bloomberg, CNBC, Business Insider, Vice, and National Public Radio. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics (Sorbonne) and completed her post-doctorate work at Washington University in St. Louis (Olin Business School). She is also a research fellow at the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Philadelphia.

 

Esther Peterson Consumer Policy Forum Lecture

Devesh Raval
Deputy Director for Consumer Protection at Federal Trade Commission

Devesh Raval's research concerns industrial organization, with a focus in production technology, competition, and consumer protection. Since finishing his doctorate at the University of Chicago, he has published in several journals, including Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, Marketing Science, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as receiving a patent for his work on econometrics. From 2021 to 2022, he was the Victor H. Kramer Foundation Fellow at Harvard Law School. Dr. Raval also has extensive experience in applying industrial organization methods to real world problems first as a founding member of the Economics Team at Amazon.com, and now at America's premier antitrust and consumer protection regulator. At the FTC, he was awarded the Francis Walker (Economist of the Year) Award in 2019 and the Outstanding Scholarship Award in 2020. Currently, he is the Deputy Director overseeing the FTC's consumer protection mission within the Bureau of Economics.

 

Conference Planning Committee Chair: Richard Stebbins
Co-Chair: Yilan Xu

Hotel Information

The conference site hotel is the Omni William Penn.

  • ACCI's group rate is $179 + tax per night single/double occupancy (about $204 USD)
  • Book your room HERE 
  • Group rate ends March 15, 2025
  • Group rates are available for 3 days before and after the conference dates, based on availability.
  • General information about Omni William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

Video courtesy of VisitPITTSBURGH.

 

Goals of the Conference

  • Learning about programs and research in the wide field of consumer science,
  • Networking to learn what others are doing,
  • Motivation to become refreshed, stimulated in your own work, and to keep up the new connections made here.

Conference Objectives: At the end of the conference, participants will be able to: (1) name at least three new research projects of which they were unaware; (2) describe at least three new professional contacts; and (3) explain ACCI’s mission and vision and identify at least one way in which you could become active in support of work in the consumer's interest.