SI 2016 Real Estate

Fernando V. Ferreira and Tomasz Piskorski, Organizers

July 27-28, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 27
8:15 am
Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University
Nicholas Carollo, University of California at Los Angeles

The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment
9:05 am
Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Is the Great Recession Really Over? Longitudinal Evidence of Enduring Employment Impacts
10:10 am
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Nicholas Turner, Federal Reserve Board
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Stimulating Housing Markets
11:00 am
Elliot Anenberg, Federal Reserve Board
Aurel Hizmo, Federal Reserve Board
Edward Kung, California State University, Northridge
Raven Molloy, Federal Reserve Board

The Effect of Mortgage Credit Availability on House Prices and Construction: Evidence from a Frontier Estimation Approach
12:50 pm
Pierre-Philippe Combes, University of Lyon and Sciences Po
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Laurent Gobillon, Paris School of Economics-CNRS

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
1:40 pm
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Morris Davis, Rutgers University

Neighborhood Choices and Neighborhood Effects
2:45 pm
Michael Bailey, Facebook
Ruiqing Cao, Stockholm School of Economics
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER

Social Networks and Housing Markets
3:35 pm
Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

CMBS and Conflicts of Interest: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Servicer Ownership
Thursday, July 28
8:30 am
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010
9:20 am
Crocker Liu, Cornell University
Stuart Rosenthal, Cornell University
William Strange, University of Toronto

The Vertical City: Rent Gradients, Spatial Structure, and Agglomeration Economies
10:30 am
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL

Homeownership and the American Dream -- An Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility Effects
11:20 am
Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Lara Loewenstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt during the Housing Boom: Evidence and Implications