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The conference will take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is a 6 minute walk from the conference hotel (Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis at the Arch). You can walk there from the conference hotel by following these directions
Conference Agenda
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Conference Agenda:
Friday, April 22nd
8:00am – 8:55am, Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:55am – 9:00am, Opening Remarks
9:00am - 10:00am, Daniele Coen-Pirani (University of Pittsburgh)
The Political Economy of Underfunded Municipal Pension Plans (with Jeffrey Brinkman and Holger Sieg)
Discussion by David Albouy, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
10:00am - 11:00am, Kathrin Schlafmann (Stockholm University)
Housing, Mortgages, and Self Control
Discussion by Juan Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
11:00am - 11:20am, Coffee and Tea Break
11:20am - 12:20pm, Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania)
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France (with Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon)
Discussion by Marcus Berliant, Washington University
12:20pm - 1:20pm, Lunch
1:20pm - 2:20pm, Jonathan Halket (University of Essex)
The Housing Stock, Housing Prices, and User Costs: The Roles of Location, Structure and Unobserved Quality (with Lars Nesheim and Florian Oswald)
Discussion by Aaron Hedlund, University of Missouri
2:20pm - 3:20pm, Elliot Anenberg (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
The Effect of Mortgage Credit Availability on House Prices and Construction: Evidence from a Frontier Estimation Approach (with Aurel Hizmo, Edward Kung, and Raven Malloy)
Discussion by Adam Guren, Boston University
3:20pm - 3:40pm, Coffee and Tea Break
3:40pm - 4:40pm, Johannes Stroebel (New York University)
Social Networks and Housing Markets (with Michael Bailey, Ruiqing Cao, and Theresa Kuchler)
Discussion by Pedro Gete, Georgetown University
4:40pm - 5:40pm, Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Revisiting Subprime Lending: Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt During the Housing Boom (with Chris Foote and Lara Loewenstein)
Discussion by Jaromir Nosal, Boston College
6:00pm, Dinner at Lucas Park Grille (alcoholic beverages at participants' own expense)
Sponsored by Department of Economics, Washington University and Centre for Dynamic Economics, Washington University
Saturday, April 23rd
8:00am - 8:30am, Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 9:30am, Philippe Bracke (Bank of England)
How Much Do Investors Pay for Houses?
Discussion by Alex (Albert) Zevelev, Baruch College - City University of New York
9:30am - 10:30am, Sean Hundthofte (Yale University)
Does Going Easy on Distressed Banks Help the Macroeconomy?
Discussion by Hoai-Luu Nguyen, University of California – Berkeley
10:30am - 11:00am, Coffee and Tea Break
11:00am - 12:00pm, You Suk Kim, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
The Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default: A Structural Estimation (with Hanming Fang and Wendi Li)
Discussion by Erik Hembre, University of Illinois – Chicago
12:00 pm, Depart
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