Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Housing- Urban-Labor-Macro (HULM) Conference
March 4th and 5th 2011 at the Atlanta Fed
Questions? Call/Text Chris at 404 664
3602 or email chris.cunningham@atl.frb.org,
or 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 Atlanta
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Wisconsin School of Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban
Land Economics
Previous HULM Conferences
·
2010 Fall @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
· 2010 Spring @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
·
2009 Fall @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Next HULM Conferences
· 2011 Fall @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Conference Agenda:
Friday, March 4th
8:00am
8:55am, Registration
8:55am
9:00am, Opening Remarks
9:00am
10:00am, Joao Cocco, London
Business School
A Model of Mortgage Default (with John
Campbell)
Discussion
by Andra Ghent
10:00am
11:00am, Tomasz Piskorski,
Columbia University
Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default:
Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide (with Chris Mayer, Edward
Morrison, and Arpit Gupta)
Discussion by Kamila Sommer
11:00am
12:00pm, Kristopher Gerardi,
Atlanta Fed
Kristopher Gerardi
Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage
Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data (with Lorenz Goette
and Stephan Meier)
Discussion
by Maria Luengo-Prado
12:00pm
1:30pm, Lunch
1:30pm
2:30pm, Patrick Bayer, Duke
University
Speculators and Middlemen: The Role of Flippers
in the Housing Market (with Christopher Geissler
and James W. Roberts)
Discussion
by Jordan Rappaport
2:30pm
3:30pm, Lu Han, University of Toronto
Measuring
the Thinness of Real Estate Markets (with David Genesove)
Discussion by Jim Albrecht
3:30pm
4:00pm, Break
4:00pm
5:00pm, Ed Coulson,
Pennsylvania State University (with Herman Li)
Measuring the External
Benefits of Homeownership
Discussion
by Richard Green
5:00pm
6:00pm, Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh
Agglomeration Externalities
and the Dynamics of Firm Location Choices (with Holger
Sieg and Jeff Brinkman)
Discussion by Theodore Papageorgiou
7:00pm, Reception at the Atlanta Fed.
Saturday, March 5th
8:00am
8:30am, Continental Breakfast
8:30am
9:30am, Matteo
Iacoviello, Board of Governors and Boston College
Discussion
by Erasmus Kersting
9:30am 10:30am, Marcelo Veracierto,
Chicago Fed
The Role of Housing in Labor
Reallocation (with Jonas Fisher and Morris Davis)
Discussion
by Jonathan Halket
10:30am
11:00am, Break
11:00am
12:00pm, David Albouy, University of Michigan
Metropolitan
Land Values and Housing Productivity
Discussion
by Albert Saiz
12:00pm, Depart
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Hotel information:
Loews
Atlanta Hotel (conveniently located across the street from FRB Atlanta at
Peachtree & 11th Streets)
1065
Peachtree Street
Atlanta,
Georgia 30309
Phone:
404-745-5000
https://www.loewshotels.com/en/Atlanta-Hotel
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Directions from the hotel to the Bank:
FRB Atlanta
is on the opposite corner from the hotel and the main entrance is at the corner
of 10th and Peachtree.
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Reception: Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta.
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Travel from Airport to Hotel and Bank
Travel time from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to
the Bank is about 20-25 minutes by taxi, for a fare of about $32.
Travel time on MARTA
(Atlantas heavy rail system, is about 20 minutes, at a cost of $2:50 (with
reusable fare card). Take the train to the Midtown Station. Take the escalator/stairs up and exit on to
10th street. Walk one block
east (right) to Peachtree St, turn left (north) and walk one block to 11th
and Peachtree. The Loews hotel is on the opposite corner.
