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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Housing and the Financial Crisis

Edward Glaeser and Todd Sinai, Organizer

November 17-18, 2011

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University B&C
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

 

12:00 pm

Lunch- (Outside Meeting Room University B&C)

 

12:45 pm

Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
House Price Moments in Boom-Bust Cycles

Discussants:

Karl Case, Wellesley College

Charles Himmelberg, Goldman Sachs

 

2:00 pm

Andrew Haughwout, Richard Peach, John Sporn, and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Supply Side of the Housing Boom and Bust of the 2000s

Discussants:

Thomas Davidoff, University of British Columbia
Albert Saiz, University of Pennsylvania

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

3:30 pm

David Genesove, Hebrew University
Lu Han, University of Toronto
A Spatial Look at Housing Bubbles

Discussants:

Denise DiPasquale, City Research
Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University

 

4:45 pm

Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Joshua Gottlieb, Harvard University
Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom?

Discussants:
Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin
Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

6:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:15 pm
6:45 pm

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the Harvard Faculty Club
Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the Harvard Faculty Club

 

7:00 pm

Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA


Dinner Speaker: Lawrence Summers, Harvard University and NBER

 

8:45 pm
9:00 pm

Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

Friday, November 18, 2011

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am

Donghoon Lee and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER
A New Look at Second Liens

Discussants:
Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER
Peter Zorn, Freddie Mac

 

9:45 am

Break

 

10:00 pm

Benjamin Keys, Federal Reserve Board
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Vikrant Vig, London School of Business
Mortgage Financing in the Housing Boom and Bust

Discussants:
Brian Melzer, Northwestern University
Shane Sherlund, Federal Reserve Board

 

11:15 am

Dwight Jaffee, University of California, Berkeley
John Quigley, University of California, Berkeley
The Future Role of the Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Role for Government in the U.S. Mortgage Market

Discussants:
Lawrence White, New York University
Stuart Gabriel, University of California, Los Angeles

 

12:30 pm

Lunch- Dante Lounge

 

1:15 pm

Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics
David Kohn, New York University
Sydney Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University and NBER
International Capital Flows and House Prices; Theory and Evidence

Discussants:
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylania and NBER

 

2:30 pm

Adjourn

 


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