10:00–10:45
Mortgage Choice and House Price Appreciation
Gadi Barlevy (Chicago Fed) and Jonas Fisher (Chicago Fed)
Conference program
Conference on Housing and Household Debt
Co-sponsored with the Guthrie Center for Real Estate Research and the Kellogg Public-Private Interface Initiative.
Friday, November 20, 2015
11:00–11:45
Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance
Kerwin Charles (Harris School), Erik Hurst (Chicago Booth) and Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern)
11:45–12:30
Collateral Constraints and Macroeconomic Asymmetries
Luca Guerrieri (Federal Reserve Board), Matteo Iacoviello (Federal Reserve Board)
14:00–14:45
Mortgage Interest Rates during the Housing Boom
Alejandro Justiniano (Chicago Fed), Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern), Andrea Tambalotti (NY Fed)
14:45–15:30
Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
Atif Mian (Princeton), Amir Sufi (Chicago Booth), Emil Verner (Princeton)
16:00–16:45
Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model meets Evidence
Greg Kaplan (Princeton), Kurt Mitman (IIES) and Gianluca Violante (NYU)
16:45–17:30
Household Credit and Employment in the Great Recession
John Mondragon (Kellogg)
Saturday, November 21, 2015
09:45–10:30
House Prices and Consumer Spending
David Berger (Northwestern), Veronica Guerrieri (Chicago Booth), Guido Lorenzoni (Northwestern), and Joe Vavra (Chicago Booth)
11:00–11:45
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson (Kellogg) and Edward Glaeser (Harvard)
11:45–12:30
Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy
Matthias Doepke (Northwestern), Martin Schneider (Stanford), and Veronika Selezneva (Northwestern)