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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis Pre-Conference

 

March 18, 2011

 

Edward Glaeser, Joe Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, Organizers

 

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, March 17:

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge

 

(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

Friday, March 18:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Inter-City House Price Moments in Boom-Bust Cycles

 

Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

The Supply Side of the Housing Boom and Bust of the 2000s

 

Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Richard Peach, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

John Sporn, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

10:30 am

A Spatial Look at Housing Bubbles

 

David Genesove, Hebrew University

 

Lu Han, University of Toronto

 

 

11:30 am

Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom?

 

Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

 

Josh Gottlieb, Harvard University

 

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Lender Screening and Role of Securitization: Evidence from Prime and Subprime Mortgage Markets

 

Benjamin Keys, Federal Reserve Board

 

Amit Seru, University of Chicago

 

Vikrant Vig, London Business School

 

 

2:30 pm

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

 

Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

 

Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn