SI 2015 Real Estate

Fernando V. Ferreira and Tomasz Piskorski, Organizers

July 21-22, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 21
8:15 am
8:15 am
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development
9:15 am
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Gentrification and Crime: Evidence from Rent Deregulation
10:30 am
10:30 am
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER

House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices
11:30 am
11:30 am
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ilya Rahkovsky
Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER

What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Georgia
Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston

Homophily and Sorting Within Neighborhoods
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER

Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls
3:45 pm
3:45 pm
Stefania Albanesi, University of Miami and NBER
Jaromir Nosal, Boston College

Insolvency After the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform
Wednesday, July 22
8:15 am
8:15 am
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University

An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
9:15 am
9:15 am
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates
10:30 am
10:30 am
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER

Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market
11:30 am
11:30 am
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Conflicts of Interest and the Realtor Commission Puzzle
1:30 pm
Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER
Vincent Yao, Georgia State University

Mortgage Refinancing, Interest Rates Pass-Through, and Competition: Evidence from Home Affordable Refinancing Program
2:30 pm
Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University
Tim Landvoigt, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Phasing Out the GSEs