Wednesday, July 28
10:30 am
Session 1 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

Government and Private Household Debt Relief during COVID-19

Susan Cherry, Stanford University
Erica Xuewei Jiang, University of Southern California
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

How Resilient is Mortgage Credit Supply? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute
Aurel Hizmo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Session 2 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

How to Build Affordable Housing? The Role of Local Barriers to Building Multi-Unit Housing (slides)

Nicholas Chiumenti, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Amrita Kulka, New York University and University of Warwick
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto

Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data (slides)

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Angela Wyse, Dartmouth College
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau
Alexa Grunwaldt, University of Chicago
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
12:45 pm
Break
1:15 pm
JMP (15 min per paper, 5 min Q&A)

Why Are Residential Property Tax Rates Regressive?

Natee Amornsiripanitch, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Local Crime News Bias: Extent, Causes and Consequences

Jonathan Moreno Medina, University of Texas at San Antonio

House Price Contagion and U.S. City Migration Networks

Gregor Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles
2:15 pm
Session 3 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

How Much Does Racial Bias Affect Mortgage Lending? Evidence from Data on Human and Algorithmic Credit Decisions

Neil Bhutta, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Aurel Hizmo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Daniel R. Ringo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Using High-Frequency Evaluations to Estimate Discrimination: Evidence from Mortgage Loan Officers

Marco Giacoletti, University of Southern California
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University
Edison G. Yu, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Session 4 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

The Work-at-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences (slides)

Morris Davis, Rutgers University
Andra C. Ghent, University of Utah
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

Flattening the Curve: Pandemic-Induced Revaluation of Urban Real Estate

Arpit Gupta, New York University
Vrinda Mittal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jonas Peeters, The Wharton School
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 29
Joint Session with Urban Economics
9:30 am
JMP (15 min per paper, 5 min Q&A)

Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions

Jacob Krimmel, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco

Kate M. Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau

The Effects of High-skilled Firm Entry on Incumbent Residents

Franklin Qian, UNC Kenan - Flagler Business School
Rose Tan, Stanford University
10:30 am
Session 5 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

Neglected No More: Housing Markets, Mortgage Lending, and Sea Level Rise

Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (slides)

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Alberto Graziano, CaixaBank Research
Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University
Judit Montoriol-Garriga, CaixaBank Research
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Session 6 (20 min per paper, 10 min Q&A)

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University

Consumption Access and the Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from Smartphone Data

Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
12:45 pm
Adjourn