Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Housing- Urban-Labor-Macro (HULM) Conference
October 14th and 15th 2011 at the Chicago Fed
Questions? Call/Text Erwan at 608 957
6781 or email equintin@bus.wisc.edu.
For a list of attendees, click here
2011 Spring
Conference Sponsors (THANK YOU!)
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Wisconsin School of Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban
Land Economics
Previous HULM Conferences
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2011
Spring @ Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta
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2010 Fall @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
· 2010 Spring @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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2009 Fall @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Next HULM Conferences
· 2012 Spring @ Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Conference Agenda:
Friday, October 14th
8:00am
– 8:55am, Registration
8:55am
– 9:00am, Opening Remarks
9:00am
– 10:00am, Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University
Understanding
Booms and Busts in Housing Markets (with Craig Burnside and Martin Eichenbaum)
Discussion
by Jose Fillat
10:00am
– 11:00am, Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal,
Stockholm School of Economics
How Did the US Housing Slump Begin? The Role of
the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform (with Dilip Mookherjee)
Discussion
by Tim Riddiough
11:00am – 12:00pm, Wilbert van der Klaauw, New-York Fed
Real
Estate Investors, the Leverage Cycle and the Housing Market Crisis (with
Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee and Joseph Tracy)
Discussion
by Richard Rosen
12:00pm
– 1:30pm, Lunch
1:30pm
– 2:30pm, Theodore Papageorgiou, Penn State University
Worker
Sorting and Agglomeration Economies
Discussion by Nathaniel Baum-Snow
2:30pm –
3:30pm, Jonathan Halket, University
College London
Do Households Use
Homeownership To Insure Themselves? Evidence Across
U.S. Cities (with Michael Amior)
Discussion by Carles Vergara Alert
3:30pm
– 4:00pm, Break
4:00pm –
5:00pm, Morris Davis, Wisconsin School of
Business
Homework in Monetary
Economics: Inflation, Home Production,
and the Production of Homes (with
Boragan Aruoba and Randall Wright)
Discussion
by Marcelo Veracierto
5:00pm
– 6:00pm, Randy Wright, University of Wisconsin
Housing and Liquidity
(with Chao He, Guillaume Rocheteau and Yu Zhu)
Discussion
by Derek Stacey
7:00pm, Dinner, at Greek Islands Restaurant.
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin’s Real
Estate Department
Saturday, October
15th
8:00am –
8:30am, Continental Breakfast
8:30am
– 9:30am, Jordan Rappoport, Kansas City Fed
The Settlement of the U.S., 1790 to 2000: The
Emergence of Gibrat's Law (with Klaus Desmet)
Discussion
by Ed Coulson
9:30am
– 10:30am, Kristian Berhens, Université du Québec à
Montréal
Spatial Frictions (with
Giordano Mion, Yasusada
Murata and Jens Sudekum)
Discussion
by David Frame
10:30am –
11:00am, Break
11:00am
– 12:00pm, Albert Saiz, Wharton
Interest
Rates and Non-Fundamental Fluctuations in Home Values
Discussion
by Stephen Ross
12:00pm, Depart
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Hotel information:
Club
Quarters, 111 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Club Quarters, Central Loop is located at the corner of Adams and Clark Streets
beside the famous Rookery Building and in the center of the Central Loop, just
minutes from Michigan Avenue. It is just one and 1/2 blocks from the Chicago
Fed and a short walk to the Symphony Center, the Art Institute, Board of Trade, the Willis Tower, the River Front and Grant
Park. It boasts the popular Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, serving a
combination of British classics and North American favorites coupled with a list
of over 100 beers and an extensive list of Scotch whiskeys. Each floor
features complimentary chilled bottled water to go. For other amenities,
please visit their website.
