University of Wisconsin-Madison and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Housing- Labor-Macro-Urban Conference
September 25th and 26th, 2009 at the Atlanta Fed

 

Friday, 9/25/2009

·         12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lunch and Registration

 

Topic:  Foreclosures

·         1:00pm – 2:00pm, “Mortgage Innovation and the Foreclosure Boom”

By Dean Corbae and Erwan Quintin (presenter)

Discussant:  Carlos Garriga

 

·         2:00pm – 3:00pm, “Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default:  Theory and Evidence from US States”

By Andra Ghent (presenter) and Marianna Kudlyak

Discussant:  Kristopher Gerardi

 

·         3:00pm – 3:15pm, Break

 

·         3:15pm – 4:15pm, “Foreclosures and House Price Dynamics:  A Quantitative Analysis of the Mortgage Crisis and the Foreclosure Prevention Policy”

By Burcu Eyigungor and Satyajit Chatterjee (presenter)

Discussant:  Pedro Silos

 

Topic:  Income, Wealth, and Housing

·         4:15pm – 5:15pm, “Aging and Home Equity Withdrawl”
By Makoto Nakajima and Irina Telyukova (presenter)

Discussant:  Jonathan Heathcote

 

·         5:15pm – 5:30pm, Break

 

·         5:30pm – 6:30pm, “Neighborhood Human Capital Externalities and Residential Segregation”

By Alejandro Badel

Discussant:  Vernon Henderson

 

·         Reception and Dinner, TBD

 

 

 

Saturday, 9/26/2009

·         8:00am – 8:15am, Coffee and Continental Breakfast

 

Topic:  House Prices

·         8:15am – 9:15am, “Housing Price Cycles and Endogenous Gentrifications”

By Veronica Guerieri (presenter), Erik Hurst, Dan Hartley

Discussant:  David Frame

 

·         9:15am – 10:15am, “Securitization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Lender Cutoff Rule”

By Alex Kaufman (presenter) and Ryan Bubb

Discussant:  Dan McMillan

 

·         10:15am – 10:30am, Break

 

·         10:30am – 11:30am, “High and Low Activity in Housing and Labor”

By Eric Smith

Discussant:  Ed Coulson

 

Topic:  Geography and Labor

·         11:30am – 12:30pm, “Cross-Sectional Volatility of Individual Income Processes”
By Damba Lkhagvasuren

Discussant:  Steve Ross

 

·         12:30pm – 1:30pm, Lunch

 

·         1:30pm – 2:30pm, “Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power”

By Peter Rupert (presenter), Elena Stancanelli, and Etienne Wasmer

Discussant:  Ping Wang

 

·         2:30 – 3:30pm, “Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation”

By Alessandra Fogli (presenter) and Laura Veldkamp

Discussant:  Alice Schoonbroodt

 

·         3:30pm, END