Wednesday, July 23

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Unlocking Mortgage Lock-In: Evidence From a Spatial Housing Ladder Model

Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lu Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Pierre Mabille, INSEAD

Discussant:
TBA

9:20 am

Monetary Policy and Rents

Boaz Abramson, Columbia University
Pablo de Llanos Artero, Columbia University
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
TBA

10:10 am

Break

10:20 am

Short Presentations

Segmentation and Returns on Rental Housing

Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Samuel Hughes, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

An Alpha in Affordable Housing?

Sven Damen, University of Antwerp
Matthijs Korevaar, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

11:10 am

Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints

Joshua Coven, New York University
Sebastian Golder, University of Hamburg
Arpit Gupta, New York University
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University

Discussant:
TBA

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Short Presentations on Homeownership and Housing Wealth

Does Homeownership Matter? The Long-Term Consequences of Losing a House during the Great Recession

Heidi Artigue, University of Pennsylvania
Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER

Intergenerational Mobility and Housing Wealth in the United States

Ariel J. Binder, U.S. Census Bureau
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

2:05 pm

The Home Purchase Effects of GSE Redistribution: Evidence from Difference-in-Discontinuity Estimates

You Suk Kim, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Feng Liu, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
David Zhang, Rice University

Discussant:
TBA

2:55 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Property Insurance and Disaster Risk: New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data

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

Discussant:
TBA

4:00 pm

Short Presentations on Brokerage Markets

NAR Settlement, House Prices, and Consumer Welfare

Greg Buchak, Stanford University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

The Equilibrium Impacts of Broker Incentives in the Real Estate Market

Gi Heung Kim, University of Pennsylvania

4:50 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, July 24

Morning Joint with Urban Economics

7:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:00 am

Short Presentations from Job Market Papers

Can We Rebuild a City? Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment

Vincent Rollet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Build What and for Whom? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply

Lei Ma, Boston University

Diversifying the Suburbs: Rental Supply and Spatial Inequality

Konhee Chang, University of California, Berkeley

Housing Regulation and Neighborhood Sorting across the US

James D. Macek, University of Toronto

10:00 am

Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
Abdollah Farhoodi, University of Toronto
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
TBA

10:50 am

The Distaste for Density

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sean E. McCulloch, Brown University

Discussant:
TBA

11:40 am

The Bronx is Burning: Urban Disinvestment Effects of the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements

Ingrid Ellen, New York University
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Wei You, Peking University

Discussant:
TBA

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn