SI 2023 Real Estate

Tomasz Piskorski and Maisy Wong, Organizers

July 26-27, 2023

Hotel Marlowe

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Arpit Gupta, New York University
Vrinda Mittal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse
Discussant: Morris Davis, Rutgers University
9:50 am
Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University
Michael Reher, University of California, San Diego

Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis
Discussant: Todd M. Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Gi Heung Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Coordinated vs Efficient Prices: The Impact of Algorithmic Pricing on Multifamily Rental Markets
Discussant: Greg Buchak, Stanford University
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lu Liu, University of Pennsylvania

Mortgage Lock-In, Mobility, and Labor Reallocation
Discussant: Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:50 pm
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin at Madison
L. Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics

To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets
Discussant: Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
Short Presentations on Homeownership
3:00 pm
Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Dynastic Home Equity (slides)
3:20 pm
Francis Wong, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Taxing Homeowners Who Won't Borrow
3:40 pm
Caitlin S. Gorback, University of Texas at Austin
Gregor Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles

The Impact of Cultural Preferences on Homeownership
4:00 pm
Break
Short Presentations on Gentrification
4:20 pm
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University

Property Tax Sales, Private Capital, and Gentrification in the U.S. (slides)
4:40 pm
Franklin Qian, University of North Carolina
Qianyang Zhang, Columbia University
Xiang Zhang, Princeton University

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Grocery Store Openings
The livestream will stop before the final paper
5:00 pm
Lindsay E. Relihan, Purdue University

Is Online Retail Killing Coffee Shops? Estimating the Winners and Losers of Online Retail using Customer Transaction Microdata
5:20 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner
Thursday, July 27
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Urban Economics
Livestream will start with the 10:20 paper
Short Presentations from Job Market Papers
8:20 am
Tianfang Cui, New York University

The Emergence of Exclusionary Zoning Across American Cities (slides)
8:40 am
Brian Higgins, Harvard University

Racial Segmentation in the US Housing Market
9:00 am
Erica Moszkowski, Harvard University
Daniel Stackman, New York University

Option Value and Storefront Vacancy in New York City
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Stephanie Kestelman, Harvard University
Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER

The Impact of Right to Counsel on Rental Markets
Discussant: Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:20 am
Hector Blanco Fernandez, Rutgers University
Noémie Sportiche, Harvard University

Local Effects of Bypassing Zoning Regulations in High-Income Areas
Discussant: Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto
Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, University of Minnesota

Long Shadow of Housing Discrimination: Evidence from Racial Covenants
Discussant: Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch and Adjourn