Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Housing- Urban-Labor-Macro (HULM) Conference
April 10 and 11, 2015

 

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

 

 

 

For a list of attendees, click here

2015 Spring Conference Sponsors (THANK YOU!)

·         Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

·         Department of Economics, Washington University

·         Center for Economic Dynamics , Washington University

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

·         James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate

 

Venue:

The conference will take place at on the campus of Washington University. Specifically, we will be at Seigle Hall, Room 304 for the Friday and Saturday sessions. For the dinner on Friday, April 10, 2015 we have Lopata Hall Gallery. For a campus map, go here. Seigle or Harry and Susan Seigle Hall is #97 on the map. Lopata Hall Gallery is in Lopata Hall which is number 63 on the map.

To go from the hotel to Seigle Hall, you can walk the 1.5 miles or take the train (East-bound train from the Clayton MetroLink Station to the U City Big Bend MetroLink Station. Morris will leave at 7:30am from the hotel lobby on Friday, feel free to join him.

Conference Agenda

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Hotel information

 

 

Conference Agenda:

 

Friday, April 10th 

 

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

 

8:55am – 9:00am, Opening Remarks 

 

9:00am – 10:00am, Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University

      The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding (with David Nagi and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)

 

10:00am – 11:00am, Rachel Ngai, LSE

Moving House (with Kevin Sheedy)

  

11:00am – 11:30am, Kristle Cortes, Cleveland Fed

Tracing Out Capital Flows: How Financially Integrated Banks Respond to Natural Disasters (with Philip Strahan) 

 

11:30am – 12:00pm, Mai Dao, IMF

Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States (with Prakash Loungani and Davide Furceri) 

 

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lunch 

 

1:00pm – 1:30pm, Kamila Sommer, Board of Governors

On the Effect of Student Loans on Access to Homeownership (with Alvaro Mezza and Shane Sherlund)

 

1:30pm – 2:00pm, Ed Kung, UCLA

Mortgage Market Institutions and Housing Market Outcomes: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach

 

2:00pm – 3:00pm, Elena Pastorino, Minnesota

Debt Constraints and Employment (with Pat Kehoe and Virgiliu Midrigan)

 

3:00pm – 3:30pm, Break

 

3:30pm – 4:30pm, Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University

      Incorporating Dynamic Behavior into the Hedonic Model (with Kelly Bishop)

Discussion by Daniele Coen-Pirani

 

4:30pm – 5:00pm, Albert Zevelev, Wharton

Regulating Mortgage Leverage: Fire Sales, Foreclosure Spirals and Pecuniary Externalities

 

5:00pm – 5:30pm, Iannis Yoannides, Tufts

Vacancies in Housing and Labor Markets (with Jeff Zabel)

 

 

7:00pm, Dinner, at the Lopata Hall Gallery on the Campus of Washington University

 

 

Saturday, April 11th  

 

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

 

8:30am – 9:00am , Anders Osterling, Stockholm University

Does the Asking Price Matter? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Residential Real Estate

 

9:00am – 9:30am, Derek Stacey, Ryerson

Advertised Prices in Decentralized Markets

 

9:30am – 10:30am, Plamen Nenov, Norwegian Business School       

Buying First or Selling First in Housing Markets (with Espen Moen and Florian Sniekers)

 

10:30am – 11:00am, Break

 

11:00am – 11:30am, Richard Green, USC

Financial Crisis and the Increase of Income Equality (with Jung Choi)

 

11:30am – 12:00pm, Zheng Liu, San Francisco Fed

Land Prices and Unemployment (with Jianjun Miao and Tao Zha)

 

 

12:00pm, Depart

 

 

 

·         Hotel information:

 

Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel, 7730 Bonhomme Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, 63105.

 

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Previous HULM Conferences

 

·         2014 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

·         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 Fall         @ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

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