Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Housing- Urban-Labor-Macro (HULM) Conference
October 31st and November 1st 2014

 

Questions?  Call/Text Erwan at 608 957 6781 or email equintin@bus.wisc.edu

 

 

 

For a list of attendees, click here

2014 Fall Conference Sponsors (THANK YOU!)

·         Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

·         Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business

·         James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate

 

 

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Hotel information

 

 

Conference Agenda:

 

Friday, October 31st 

 

8:00am – 9:00am, Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:55am – 9:00am, Opening Remarks 

 

9:00am – 10:00am, Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown

      Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? (with Matthew Freedman and Ronni Pavan)

Discussion by Chamna Yoon

 

10:00am – 11:00am, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton

The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the US Economy (with Lorenzo Caliendo, Fernando Parro and Pierre-Daniel Sarte)
Discussion by Jason Faberman

  

11:00am – 12:00pm, Kyle Herkenhoff, Minnesota

Unemployment, Negative Equity and Strategic Default (with Kristopher Gerardi, Lee E. Ohanian and Paul Willen) 

Discussion by Ed Kung

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lunch 

 

1:00pm – 2:00pm, Lynn Fisher, UNC

Houses, Apartments and Condos: The Governance of Multifamily Housing (with Ed Coulson)

Discussion by Abdullah Yavas

 

2:00pm – 3:00pm, Daniel Ringo, Board of Governors

Home Ownership as a Labor Market Friction
Discussion by Luojia Hu

 

3:00pm – 3:30pm, Break

 

3:30pm – 4:30pm, Satyajit Chatterjee, Philadelphia Fed

      Agglomeration Economies, Geography and the Value of Urban Land (with Burcu Eyigungor)

Discussion by Daniele Coen-Pirani

 

4:30pm – 5:30pm, Andra Ghent, ASU

When Low Standards are a Winning Strategy: How Credit Rating Agencies Compete (with Sean Flynn) 

Discussion by Wenyu Wang

 

 

6:00pm, Dinner, at Giordano’s Pizza.

Sponsored by the  James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate

 

 

 

Saturday, November 1st 

 

8:00am – 8:30am, Continental Breakfast

 

8:30am – 9:30am, Moussa Diop, Wisconsin

Product Market Competition and Investment Demand Uncertainty (with Brett Ambrose and Jiro Yoshida)
Discussion by Yuri Tserlukevich

 

9:30am – 10:30am, Kyle Mangum, Georgia      

Speculative Fever: Micro Evidence for Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble (with Patrick Bayer and James Roberts)

Discussion by Albert Zevelev

 

10:30am – 11:00am, Break

 

11:00am – 12:00pm, Andreas Fuster, New-York Fed

The Sensitivity of Housing Demand to Financing Conditions: Evidence from a Survey (with Bazit Zafar)

Discussion by Jeffrey Zabel

 

12:00pm, Depart

 

 

 

·         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.

 

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Previous HULM Conferences

 

·         2014 Spring     @ Center for Real Estate Finance Research, NYU Stern

·         2013 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

·         2013 Summer @ Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, UCSB

·         2013 Spring     @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

·         2012 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

·         2012 Spring     @ Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

·         2011 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

·         2011 Spring     @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

·         2010 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

·         2010 Spring     @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

·         2009 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

 

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Next HULM Conferences 

·         2015 Spring     @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

 

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