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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Real Estate

Fernando Ferreira and Tomasz Piskorski, Organizers

July 21-22, 2015

Longfellow Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, July 21

7:45 am

Coffee and pastries

Morning session joint with Urban Economics

8:15 am

Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
Timothy McQuade, Stanford University
Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development

Discussant: Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University

9:15 am

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Palmer, University of California at Berkeley
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gentrification and Crime: Evidence from Rent Deregulation

Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Johannes C. Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER
House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices

Discussant: Manuel Adelino, Duke University

11:30 am

Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ilya Rahkovsky, Economic Research Service, USDA
Molly Schnell, Princeton University
What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Discussant: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Rochester
Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston
Homophily and Sorting Within Neighborhoods

Discussant: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Harvard University

2:30 pm

Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Pennsylvania
Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls

Discussant: Itzhak Ben-David, Ohio State University and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Stefania Albanesi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jaromir Nosal, Columbia University
Insolvency After the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

Discussant: Will S. Dobbie, Princeton University and NBER

4:45 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Group dinner at Legal Sea Foods in Kendall Sq., Cambridge

Wednesday, July 22

7:45 am

Coffee and pastries

8:15 am

Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics

Discussant: Kent D. Daniel, Columbia University and NBER

9:15 am

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates

Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin J. Keys, University of Chicago
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER
Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market

Discussant: Todd M. Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

11:30 am

Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, Cornell University and NBER
Conflicts of Interest and the Realtor Commission Puzzle

Discussant: Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Souphala Chomsisengphet, OCC
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Vincent Yao, Fannie Mae
Mortgage Refinancing, Interest Rates Pass-Through, and Competition: Evidence from Home Affordable Refinancing Program

Discussant: Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm

Vadim Elenev, New York University
Tim Landvoigt, University of Texas at Austin
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University and NBER
Phasing Out the GSEs

Discussant: Edward Kung, University of California at Los Angeles

3:30 pm

Adjourn