Past Symposia

2012 Summer Real Estate Symposium

June 17-18, 2012
Las Vegas, Nevada 

Hosting Schools: UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, Cornell, National University of Singapore, Wharton, Wisconsin-Madison and UT-Austin

Program Papers

• "Bidding Wars for Houses" by Lu Han (Toronto) and Will Strange (Toronto)
• "Houses as ATMs? Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty" by Hui Chen (MIT), Michael Michawx  (USC) and Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton)
• "Borrower Misrepresentation and Loan Performance" by Mark Garmaise (UCLA)
• "Energy Efficiency and Commercial-Mortgage Valuation" by Dwight Jaffee (UC Berkeley), Richard Stanton (UC  Berkeley) and Nancy Wallace (UC Berkeley)
• "Financial Innovation in Late-Eighteenth Century Netherlands: The Case of American Land Securities" by Rik  Frehen  (Tilburg), Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale) and Will Goetzmann (Yale)
• "Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes" by Ray Fisman (Columbia), Daniel Paravisini (Columbia and LSE)  Vikrant Vig (LBS) 

2011 Summer Real Estate Symposium

June 18-19, 2011 ~ Santa Fe, New Mexico

Hosting Schools: UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, Cornell, National University of Singapore, Wharton, Wisconsin-Madison, and UT-Austin

Program Papers

• "Reputation Vs. Signaling in a Security Issuance Game," by Barney Hartman-Glaser, (UC-Berkeley)
• "Mortgage Debt Overhang: Reduced Investment by Homeowners with Negative Equity," by Brian T. Melzer  (Northwestern University) 
• "The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General  Equilibrium," by Jack Favilukis (London School of Economics), Sydney C. Ludvigson (NYU), Stijn Van  Nieuwerburgh (NYU)
• "Measuring the Thinness of Real Estate Markets," by David Genesove (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Lu  Han (University of Toronto)
• "Estimating Loan-to-Value Ratios and Foreclosure Behavior," by Arthur Korteweg (Stanford Business School),  Morten Sorenson (Columbia Business School)
• "Learning from Prices: Information Spillovers in Real Estate," by Aydogan Alti (University of Texas at Austin,  Joseph Engelberg (UNC), Christopher A. Parsons (UNC) 

Research Papers

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