Tuesday, July 23
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8:00 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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8:30 am
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Brian T. Melzer, Northwestern University
David Matsa, Northwestern University
Joanne Hsu, Federal Reserve Board
Unemployment
Insurance and Consumer Credit
Discussant: Andreas Mueller, Columbia University
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9:30 am
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Break
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10:00 am
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Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Manufacturing
Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment
Discussant: Atif R. Mian,
Princeton University and NBER
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11:00 am
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Peter Englund, Stockholm School of Economics
Thomas Jansson, Sveriges Riksbank
Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
How
Parents Influence the Wealth Accumulation of their Children
Discussant: Kathleen M. McGarry, University of
California at Los Angeles and NBER
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12:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University
Amit Seru, University of
Chicago and NBER
James Witkin, Columbia Business School
Asset Quality
Misrepresentation by Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from RMBS Market
Discussant: Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago
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2:00 pm
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Break
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2:30 pm
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Mark Garmaise, University of California at Los
Angeles
The
Attractions and Perils of Flexible Mortgage Lending
Discussant: Karen Pence, Federal Reserve Board
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3:30 pm
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Andreas Fuster, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Securitization
and the Fixed-Rate Mortgage
Discussant: Benjamin Keys, University of Chicago
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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6:30 pm
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Group Dinner, Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square
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Wednesday, July 24
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8:00
am
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Coffee
and Pastries
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8:30 am
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Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER
Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER
Johannes C. Stroebel, University of Chicago
Segmented
Housing Search
Discussant: Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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9:30 am
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Lu Han, University of Toronto
William Strange, University of Toronto
What is
the Role of the Asking Price for a House?
Discussant: Jessie Handbury, University of
Pennsylvania
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10:30 am
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Break
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10:45 am
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Cindy Soo, University of Michigan
Quantifying
Animal Spirits: News Media and Sentiment in the Housing Market
Discussant: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
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11:45 am
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Marcelle Chauvet,
University of California, Riverside
Stuart Gabriel, University of California at Los Angeles
Chandler Lutz, Copenhagen Business School
Fear
and Loathing in the Housing Market: Evidence from Search Query Data
Discussant: Aurel Hizmo,
New York University
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12:45 pm
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Adjourn
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