SI 2018 Real Estate

Fernando V. Ferreira and Tomasz Piskorski, Organizers

July 25-26, 2018

Hotel Marlowe

Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:20 am
Session on Mortgage Design

Mortgage Design in an Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market

Financial Fragility with SAM?

Structuring Mortgages for Macroeconomic Stability (slides)
9:30 am

Credit Supply and Housing Speculation
Discussant: Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Bank Balance Sheet Capacity, Shadow Banks and Market Segmentation
Discussant: Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 am

House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice
Discussant: Charles G. Nathanson, Michigan State University
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm

Perception of House Price Risk and Homeownership
Discussant: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER
2:30 pm

Betting the House: The Role of Homeownership in Marital Commitment and Child Investments
Discussant: Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:20 pm
Break
3:40 pm

Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment
Discussant: Ingrid Ellen, New York University
4:30 pm

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income (slides)
Discussant: Victor Couture, University of Toronto
5:20 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Alexis Room)
Thursday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint Session with Urban Economics
8:20 am

Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities
Discussant: Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
9:10 am

The Welfare Implications of Urban Gentrification
Discussant: Jacob L. Vigdor, University of Washington and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

The Opportunity Atlas: Tract-Level Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.
Discussant: Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:10 am

Calling from the Outside: The Role of Networks in Residential Mobility
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Adjourn and Lunch