During the academic year, Real Estate Research Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in Cheit Hall, Room 325. Many of the seminars are joint with the Public Finance seminar or the International Finance and Trade seminar, which may be held on Mondays or Thursdays.
Spring 2026
| February 18 | Amir Kermani, Tim McQuade, and Minghao Yang (Berkeley-Haas) | Innovation Spillovers Within Firms and Within Cities |
| February 25 | Daniel O’Connor (Princeton) | Granular Origins of Agglomeration (Postponed) |
| March 4 | David Broockman (UC Berkeley, Political Science) | The Symbolic Politics of Housing + How Sociotropic Aesthetic Judgments Drive Opposition to Dense Housing Development |
| March 11 | Benny Kleinman (Stanford) | Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation |
| March 18 | Shifrah Aron-Dine (UC Berkeley) | Title TBA |
| Monday, April 6 29 (joint with Public Finance) | Abdoulaye Ndiaye (NYU) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, April 9 (joint with Trade) | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago) | Title TBA |
| Monday, April 13 (joint with Public Finance) | Max Risch (Carnegie Mellon) | Title TBA |
| April 22 | Gabriel Ulyssea (University College London) | Territorial Informality, Slums, and Urban Development |
| April 29 (joint with Public Finance) | Eric Chyn (UT Austin) | Title TBA |
| May 6 | Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA) | Title TBA |
Faculty Coordinator: Professor Olivia Bordeu
Fall 2025
| October 15 | Laura Weiwu (Berkeley-Haas) | Title TBA |
| October 15 | Nick Tsivanidis (Berkeley-Haas) | Title TBA |
| Tuesday, September 23 (joint with Trade) | Daniel Sturm (LSE) | Title TBA |
| October 1 | Leonel Drukker (Berkeley-Haas) | Title TBA |
| October 15 | Yao Zhao (Berkeley-Haas) | Title TBA |
| Tuesday, October 21 (joint with Trade) | Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) | Strategic Trade Infrastructure: Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative |
| October 29 (joint with Trade) | Jon Vogl (UCLA) | The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks |
| November 5 (joint with Trade) | Jeanne Sorin (University of Chicago) | Public Roads on Private Lands: Land Costs and Optimal Road Improvements in Urban Uganda |
| November 12 | Matteo Saccarola (Berkeley) | Geographic Price Extrapolation, Learning, and Housing Search: Evidence from Danish Movers |
| November 19 | Jun Peng (Berkeley-Haas) | When Lock-ins Collide: Mortgage and Property Tax Frictions in Housing Mobility |
| December 3 | Jack Favilukis (UBC Sauder) | House Prices, Quantities, and the Propagation of Shocks when Developers are Imperfectly Competitive |
| December 10 | Leah Brooks (George Washington University) | The Perils and Promise of Living Together: Condominiums in the Urban Landscape |
| December 17 | Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton) | Title TBA (Postponed) |
Spring 2025
| Tuesday, March 18 (joint with Trade) | Ed Glaeser (Harvard) | Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation |
| Tuesday, March 19 (joint with Trade) | Jonathan Dingel (Columbia) | Internal Trade Barriers in India |
| April 23 | Hugo Lhuillier (Columbia) | The Local Root of Wage Inequality |
Fall 2024
| September 25 | Konhee Chang (Berkeley-Haas) | Diversifying the Suburbs: Rental Supply and Spatial Inequality |
| October 9 | Sarah Baker (UC Berkeley) | Property Tax Pass-Through to Renters: A Quasi-Experimental Approach |
| October 30 | Kareem Haggag (UCLA) | The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement |
| November 13 | Allan Hsiao (Stanford) | Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta |
| December 4 | Gregor Schubert (UCLA) | The Financial Consequences of Wanting to Own a Home |
| December 11 | Lara Loewenstein (Cleveland Fed) | Sticky Continuing-Tenant Rents |
Spring 2024
| Tuesday, March 5 (joint with Trade) | Meredith Startz (Dartmouth) | Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets |
| March 13 (joint with Trade) | Fernando Parro (Penn State) | Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies |
| Tuesday, March 19 (joint with Trade) | Treb Allen (Dartmouth) | The Topography of Nations |
| April 10 | Michael Reher (UCSD) | Real Effects of Rollover Risk: Evidence from Hotels in Crisis |
| April 24 | Lea Bou Sleiman (National University of Singapore) | Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris |
| May 1 | Erica Jiang (USC Marshall) | Branching Out Inequality: The Impact of Credit Equality Policies |
Fall 2023
Fall 2023
| September 6 | Sasha Indarte (Wharton) | Clean Growth |
| September 20 | Yunbo Liu (Haas School of Business) | Suboptimal Mortgage Refinance Product Choice |
| September 27 (joint with Trade) | Joan Monras (SF Fed) | The Effect of Second-Generation Rent Controls: New Evidence From Catalonia |
| October 4 | Juanma Vicenzi (Harvard) | Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry |
| Tuesday, October 10 (joint with Trade) | Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University) | Efficiency and Welfare in a Spatial Economy |
| Tuesday, October 17 (joint with Trade) | Federico Huneeus (Duke) | Spatial Production Networks |
| October 25 (joint with Trade) | Nick Tsivanidis (Berkeley Haas) | Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos |
| November 8 | Cailin Slattery (Haas School of Business) | Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S. |
| November 15 | Erica Moszkowski (Federal Reserve Board) | Option Value and Storefront Vacancy in New York City |
| Tuesday, November 28 (joint with Trade) | Gaurav Khanna (UCSD) | Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime |
| December 6 | Abigail Ostriker (Boston University) | The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets |
Spring 2023
| Tuesday, February 14 (joint with Trade) | Conor Walsh (Columbia Business School) | Clean Growth |
| March 1 (joint with Trade) | Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon) | Multimodal Transport Networks |
| March 8 | Joanna Venator (Boston College) | Dual Earner Migration, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance |
| March 15 | Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern) | Financial Constraints and the Racial Housing Gap |
| March 22 | Fernanda Rojas (Harvard) | Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children |
| May 3 | Gharad Bryan (LSE) | Market Design for Land Trade: Evidence from Uganda and Kenya |
Fall 2022
| August 31 | Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley) | The Political Economy of Transport Investment: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail |
| September 7 | Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) | A Bad Bunch: Asset Value Under-Reporting in the Mumbai Real Estate Market |
| September 28 | Can Huang (Berkeley Haas) | Networks in the Venture Capital Market |
| October 5 | Sizhu Lu (Berkeley Haas) | Network effects in venture capital financing |
| October 12 | Nick Tsivanidis (Berkeley Haas) | Spatial Spillovers from Urban Redevelopments: Evidence from Mumbai’s Textile Mills |
| Tuesday, October 25 (joint with Trade) | Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth) | Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions |
| November 9 | Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall) | Using High-Frequency Evaluations to Estimate Disparate Treatment: Evidence from Mortgage Loan Officers |
| November 16 | Jialan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis |
| November 30 | Antoine Levy (MIT/UC Berkeley) | The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains: Evidence from Millions of Housing Sales |
| December 7 | Winnie van Dijk (Harvard) | An Evaluation of the Right to Counsel in New York City’s Housing Court |
Spring 2022
| March 16 | Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth) | Putting Quantitative Trade Models to the Test: Evidence from India’s Trade Liberalization |
| April 13 | Tommaso Porzio (Columbia Business School) | Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions |
| April 20 | Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan) | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective |
| April 27 | Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School) | Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers |
Fall 2021
| September 15 | Juan Carlos Serrato (Duke) | Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China |
| September 22 | Jessie Handbury (Penn) | School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program |
| October 6 | Sam Asher (Johns Hopkins) | Residential Segregation in India: Evidence from 1.6m Neighborhoods |
| October 13 | Daniel Sturm (LSE) | Applying the Quantitative Urban Model to Cities in Developing Countries |
| October 20 | Klaus Desmet (SMU) | Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World |
| November 10 | David Atkin (MIT) | The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley |
| November 17 | Leah Boustan (Princeton) | Political Speech about Immigration to the US is More Positive but More Polarized Than Any Time in the Past 150 Years |
| December 1 | John Dingel (Chicago Booth) | Gains from Trade in Medical Services |
| December 8 | Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto) | Local Productivity Spillovers |
Spring 2021
| February 17 | Allison Shertzer (University of Pittsburgh) | Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth |
| February 24 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) | Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico |
| March 31 | Adam Osman (Illinois) | The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| April 7 | Stephan Heblich (Toronto) | The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| Monday, April 12, 4-5:30 p.m. | Diana van Patten (Yale) | Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company |
| April 14 | Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley) | Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption” (with R. Diamond) |
| Tuesday, April 20 (joint with Trade) | Fabian Eckhert (UCSD) | Title TBA |
| April 28 | Charlie Nathanson (Kellogg) | Housing Supply and Affordability: Evidence from Rents, Housing Consumption and Household Location |
| May 12 | Zhaogang Song (Johns Hopkins) | Asset Pricing with Cohort-Based Trading in MBS Markets |
Fall 2020
| October 7 | Katherine Wagner (Stanford) | Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance |
| October 14 | Shan Ge (NYU Stern) | Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty — Evidence from Variable Annuities |
| October 28 | Adrien Bilal | The Geography of Unemployment |
| November 4 | Aradhya Sood | Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India |
| November 11 | Taha Choukhmane | Default Options and Retirement Savings Dynamics |
| November 18 | Emil Verner | Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations |
| December 2 | Yiming Ma | The Passthrough of Treasury Supply to Bank Deposit Funding |
| December 9 | Michael Peters | European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier |
Spring 2020
| February 12 | Diego Puga (CEMFI) | Urban growth and its aggregate implications |
| Tuesday, February 18 (Evans 597, 3:30 p.m.) | Treb Allen (Dartmouth) | Trucks |
| March 11 | Clare Balboni (MIT) | In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities |
| Tuesday, April 7 | Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) | Spatial economics for granular settings |
| April 29 | Steve Redding (Princeton) | Consumption Access and Agglomeration: Evidence from Smartphone Data |
Fall 2019
| Friday, September 6 | Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London) | Reference Points in the Housing Market |
| September 25 | Jessie Handbury (Wharton) | Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting |
| October 9 | Tim Landvoigt (Wharton) | Credit Cycles with Market-Based Household Leverage |
| October 23 | Adam Guren (BU) | Title TBA |
| October 30 | Tim McQuade (Stanford GSB) | Title TBA |
| November 6 | Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern) | Title TBA Joint with Finance |
| Friday, November 8, Room N170 | Dayin Zhang (Berkeley Haas) | Title TBA |
| November 13 | Theresa Kuchler (NYU Stern) | Title TBA |
| November 20 | Cindy Soo (Michigan Ross) | Title TBA |
| December 4 | Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia Business School) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance |
Spring 2019
| February 6 | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) | Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets |
| February 13 | Costas Arkolakis (Yale) | The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements |
| Thursday, February 21 | Stephen Terry (BU) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| February 27 | Erik Gilje (Wharton) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, March 7 | Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| March 13 | Speaker TBA | |
| March 20 | No Seminar | |
| March 27 | Spring Break: No Seminar | |
| April 3 | Policy Advisory Board Meeting: No Seminar | |
| April 10 | Susan Athey (Stanford) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, April 18 | Joint Berkeley-Stanford Finance Seminar | |
| April 24 | Jacopo Ponticelli (Kellogg) | Title TBA |
| Thursday, May 2 | Xavier Gabaix (Harvard) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| Thursday, May 9 | Emanuel Colonelli (Chicago Booth) | Title TBA
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
Fall 2018
| August 29 | Edward Kung (UCLA) | Social Learning and Local Consumption Amenities: Evidence from Yelp |
| September 5 | Peter Ganong (Chicago) | Why Do Borrowers Default On Mortgages? Evidence from High-Frequency Data |
| September 12 | Nina Harari (Wharton) | Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia |
| Thursday, September 20 | Vikrant Vig (LBS) | The Political Economy of Bailouts
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| Sepbember 26 | Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard) | The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
| October 3 | Alex Bartik (UIUC) | Moving Costs and Worker Adjustment to Changes in Labor Demand: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data |
| Thursday, November 1 | Xavier Giroud (Columbia) | Firms’ Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| November 7 | Matt Turner (Brown) | Determinants of Equilibrium Particulate Exposure |
| Thursday, November 8 | Dean Karlan (Northwestern) | Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Credit Scores and Their Predictive Power
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
| November 28 | Natalia Rigol (HBS) | Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in The Field |
| Thursday, December 6 | Emily Gallagher (UC Boulder) |
The Effect of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from ACA Marketplace Subsidies
Joint with Finance: 11—12:30, Cheit 330 |
Spring 2018
| January & February | Recruitment Seminars | |
| March 7 | Wei Xioing (Princeton) | Learning about the Neighborhood |
| March 14 | Tim McQuade (Stanford) | The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco |
| April 25 | Peter Ganong (Chicago) | Title TBA |
| May 2 | Alex Bartik (UIUC) | Title TBA |
| May 9 | Vikrant Vig (LSE) | Title TBA |
Fall 2017
| September 6 | Charles Nathanson (Kellogg) | Speculative Dynamics of Prices and Volume |
| September 13 | Brian Melzer (Kellogg) | Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment |
| September 20 | Theresa Kuchler (NYU Stern) | House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice |
| September 27 | Owen Zidar (Chicago Booth) | Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century |
| October 4 | Anthony DeFusco | Regulating Household Leverage |
| October 11 | John Mondragon | Refinancing in a Recession |
| October 25 | Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA) | The Cross Section of MBS Returns |
| November 15 | Treb Allen | The Geography of Path Dependence |
| November 29 | Ralph Koijen | Quantitative Easing in the Euro Area: The Impact on Risk Exposures and Asset Prices |
| Monday, December 4 | Daniel Sturm (LSE) | The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London |
| December 6 | Daniel Paravisini | Discretion and Bias in Consumer Credit |
Spring 2017
| February 15 | Kyle Herkenhoff (Minnesota) | Can’t Pay or Won’t Pay? Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default |
| March 1 | Ed Glaeser (Harvard) | A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics
and The Dynamics of Physical Urban Change |
| Tuesday, March 7 | Gianluca Violante (NYU) | Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence
Joint with Macro: 2-4 p.m., 597 Evans Hall |
| March 15 | Phillipp Schnabl (NYU) | Banking on Deposits: Maturity Transformation without Interest Rate Risk |
| Monday, March 20 | <span1′:2,’2′:’Constantine Yannelis’}”2′:8705,’3′:{‘1′:0},’12’:0,’16’:10}”>Constantine Yannelis (NYU) |
Asymmetric Information and Strategic Default in Student Loans
Joint with the Goldman School of Public Policy |
| April 12 | Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley) | City Density and Assortative Matching |
| April 19 | Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po) | A third way between integrated Vienna and segregated Chicago? An Urban Equilibrium Model with Production Externalities and Rent Controls Applied to Paris Urban Area |
| April 26 | Vernon Henderson (LSE) | Building the city: urban transition and institutional frictions |
| May 3 | Ulrike Malmendier (Berkeley Haas) | Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice – Evidence from Residential Mortgages |
Fall 2016
| August 31 | Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin) | Neighborhood Choices and Neighborhood Effects |
| September 7 | Adrien Matray (Princeton) | Bank Branch Supply and the Unbanked Phenomenon |
| September 14 | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) | From Proliferation to Parsimony in Behavioral Economics? New Methods and Evidence on Three Fronts |
| September 21 | James Vickrey (NY Fed) | Financial Regulation and Mortgage Lending |
| October 12 | Calvin Zhang (Berkeley Haas) | A Shortage of Short Sales: Explaining the Under-Utilization of a Foreclosure Alternative |
| October 14 | Sanket Korgaonkar (Berkeley Haas) | The Limited Benefits of Debt Renegotiation |
| October 19 | David Berger (Northwestern) | House Prices and Consumer Spending |
| October 26 | Haoyang Liu (Berkeley Haas) | Do Government Guarantees Inhibit Risk Management?” |
| November 16 | Joe Vavra (Booth) | Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy |
| November 30 | Jan Eberly (Kellogg) | The Housing Crisis and the Rise in Student Loans |
| December 7 | David Scharfstein (Harvard) | Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and its Aftermath |
Spring 2016
| 2/17/16 | Brigitte Madrian (Harvard Kennedy) | Who is Easier to Nudge? |
| 2/24/16 | Paul Gertler (Berkeley Haas) | When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town |
| 3/2/16 | Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern) | Social networks and Housing Market Investments |
| 3/16/16 | Gilles Duranton (Wharton) | The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France |
| 3/30/16 | Amit Seru (Chicago Booth) | The Market for Financial Advisor Misconduct |
| 4/6/13 | Eduardo Morales (Princeton) | How Segregated is Urban Consumption? |
| 4/20/16 | Raj Chetty (Stanford) | The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates |
| 5/11/16 | Brett Green (Berkeley Haas) | Ratings, Securitization, and Credit Supply |
Fall 2015
| 8/26/15 | Adi Sunderam (HBS) | Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom |
| 9/2/15 | Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke) | State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation |
| 9/9/15 | Remi Jedwab (GWU) | The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2010 |
| 9/16/15 | Solomon Hsiang (Berkeley-Goldman) | Climate Change and the Migration of Global Agriculture: Evidence from Australia, Brazil, China, Europe and the United States |
| 9/23/15 | Benjamin Keys (Chicago Harris) | Interest Rates and Equity Extraction During the Housing Boom |
| 9/30/15 | Greg Kaplan (Princeton) | Consumption and House Prices During the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence |
| 10/7/15 | Jessica Shui (Berkeley) | Does experience matter? The impact of agent experience on real estate transactions |
| 10/21/15 | Nirupama Kulkarni (Berkeley Haas) | Regional Inequality, Credit Rationing and Uniform Mortgage Pricing |
| 11/4/15 | Atif Mian (Princeton) | Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide |
| 11/18/15 | Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State) | Systemic Mistakes in the Mortgage Market and Lack of Financial Sophistication |
| 12/2/15 | Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard) | Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles |
| 12/9/15 | Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia) | Mortgage Refinancing, Consumer Spending, and Competition: Evidence from the Home Affordable Refinancing Program |
Spring 2015
| 1/14/15 | Daan Struyven (MIT) | Housing Lock: Dutch Evidence on the Impact of Negative Home Equity on Household Mobility |
| 1/21/15 | Hoai-Luu Nguyen (MIT) | Do Bank Branches Still Matter? The Effect of Closings on Local Economic Outcomes |
| 1/28/15 | Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Harvard) | Debtor Protections and the Great Recession |
| 2/4/15 | Anthony DeFusco (Wharton) | Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls |
| 2/11/15 | Harrison Hong (Princeton) | When Real Estate is the Only Game in Town |
| 2/18/15 | John Campbell (Harvard) | Inattention and Inertia in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market |
| 2/25/15 | Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan) | Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? A New Approach to Funding Biomedical Innovation |
| 3/4/15 | Silvana Tenreyro (LSE) | The Transmission of Monetary Policy Operations through Redistributions and Durable Purchases |
| 3/11/15 | Manuel Adelino (Duke Fuqua) | Changes in the Buyer Composition and the Expansion of Credit During the Boom |
| 3/18/15 | Todd Sinai (Wharton) | How Parents’ Wealth Influences the Housing Decisions of their Children |
| 4/1/15 | Adam Storeygard (Tufts) | Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa? |
| 4/9/15 | Erik Hurst (Chicago Booth) | Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market |
| 4/22/15 | Camelia Kuhnen (UNC) | Non-Cognitive Abilities and Loan Delinquency: The Role of Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Financial Distress |
| 4/29/15 | Monika Piazzesi (Stanford) | Payments, Credit and Asset Prices |
| 5/6/15 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton) | Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities |
| 5/13/15 | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU Stern) | Phasing Out the GSEs |
Fall 2014
| 9/10/2014 | Rebecca Diamond (Stanford GSB) | Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Seeking by State and Local Governments |
| 9/17/2014 | Enrico Moretti (Berkeley) | Growth in Cities and Countries |
| 9/24/2014 | Jiro Yoshida (Penn State & Berkeley Haas) | Firm-Specific Investments, Product Market Competition, and the Risk of Corporate Value |
| 10/1/2014 | Patrick Bayer (Duke) | Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem |
| 10/8/2014 | Jiakai Chen (Berkeley Haas) | Off-Balance Sheet Financing and Bank Capital Regulation: Lessons from Asset-Backed Commercial Paper |
| 10/22/2014 | Anna Amirdjanova (Berkeley Haas) | Insider Trading: Effects on Agents with Limited Rationality |
| 11/5/2014 | Daniel Shoag (Harvard Kennedy) | Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big Box Bankruptcies |
| 11/19/2014 | Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) | Efficient Credit Policies in a Housing Debt Crisis |
| 12/3/2014 | Taylor Nadauld (BYU Marriott) | Final Demand for Structured Finance Securities |
| 12/10/2014 | Efraim Benmelech (Northwestern Kellogg) | The Real Effects of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles |
| 12/17/2014 | Nate Baum-Snow (Brown) | Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies |
Spring 2014
| 1/17/2014 | Adam Guren | Harvard |
| 1/22/2014 | Cecile Gaubert | Princeton |
| 1/31/2014 | Christopher Palmer | MIT Sloan |
| 2/5/2014 | Jonathan Dingel | Columbia |
| 2/12/2014 | Scott Baker | Stanford |
| 3/12/2014 | William Kerr | HBS |
| 3/19/2014 | Joao Cocco | LBS |
| 4/9/2014 | Rossen Valkanov | UCSD |
| 4/16/2014 | Walker Hanlon | UCLA |
| 4/23/2014 | Maisy Wong | Wharton |
| 4/30/2014 | Rodney Ramcharan | Federal Reserve Board |
Fall 2013
| 9/11/2013 | Amnon Lehavi | IDC, Herzliya |
| 9/18/2013 | Donald Davis | Columbia |
| 9/25/2013 | Martin Schneider | Stanford |
| 10/2/2013 | Pablo Kurlat | Stanford |
| 10/9/2013 | Mark Garmaise | UCLA |
| 10/30/2013 | Adam Ashcraft | NY Fed |
| 11/6/2013 | Jessie Handbury | Wharton |
| 11/20/2013 | Selale Tuzel | USC |
Spring 2013
| 1/16/2013 | David Rappoport | Yale |
| 1/21/2013 | Rebecca Diamond | Harvard |
| 1/23/2013 | Amir Kermani | MIT |
| 1/28/2013 | Cindy Soo | Wharton |
| 1/30/2013 | Victor Couture | Toronto |
| 2/13/2013 | Marco Di Maggio | MIT |
| 2/20/2013 | Tim Landvoigt | Stanford |
| 3/13/2013 | Andra Ghent | Arizona State University |
| 4/3/2013 | Adair Morse | UCB |
Fall 2012
| 9/5/2012 | David Sraer | Princeton |
| 9/19/2012 | Yael Hochberg | Northwestern |
| 10/3/2012 | Panle Barwick | MIT |
| 10/10/2012 | Itzhak Ben-David | Ohio State |
| 10/17/2012 | Fernando Ferreira | Wharton |
| 10/31/2012 | Matt Turner | Toronto |
| 11/7/2012 | David Albouy | Michigan |
| 11/14/2012 | Patrick Bayer | Duke |
| 11/21/2012 | Barney Hartman-Glaser | |
| 11/28/2012 | Amit Seru | Chicago |
| 12/12/2012 | Robert Novy-Marx | Rochester |
Spring 2012
| 1/20/2012 | Hyun Soo Choi | Princeton |
| 1/25/2012 | Antje Berndt | Carnegie Mellon |
| 2/1/2012 | Yong Suk Lee | Brown |
| 2/22/2012 | Johannes Stroebel | Stanford |
| 2/29/2012 | Edward Kung | Duke |
| 3/21/2012 | Joao Cocco | LBS |
| 4/11/2012 | Aleh Tsyvinski | Yale |
| 4/25/2012 | Sumit Agarwal | Fed Chicago |
Fall 2011
| 9/7/2011 | Jesse Rothstein | UCB |
| 9/14/2011 | Semyon Malamud | Ecole Poly Federale De Lausanne |
| 9/21/2011 | James Wilcox | UCB |
| 10/5/2011 | Nikolai Roussanov | Penn |
| 10/12/2011 | Boris Albul | UCB |
| 10/19/2011 | Matteo Maggiori | UCB |
| 10/26/2011 | Andra Ghent | CUNY |
| 11/2/2011 | Igor Makarov | LBS |
| 11/9/2011 | Anastasia Kartasheva | Penn |
| 11/16/2011 | Vish Viswanathan | Duke |
| 11/30/2011 | James Vickery | Fed NY |
Spring 2011
| 3/2/2011 | Joao Santos | Fed NY |
| 3/9/2011 | Pratish Patel | UCB |
| 3/16/2011 | Arthur Korteweg | Stanford |
| 3/30/2011 | Gary Gorton | Yale |
| 4/6/2011 | Nathan George | UCB |
| 4/13/2011 | Joe Gyourko | Wharton |
| 4/20/2011 | Wei Xiong | Princeton |
| 4/27/2011 | Enrico Moretti | UCB |
| 5/4/2011 | Paul Waddell | UCB |
Fall 2010
| 9/1/2010 | Atif Mian | UCB |
| 9/8/2010 | Nancy Wallace | UCB |
| 9/15/2010 | Wei Xiong | Princeton |
| 9/22/2010 | Robert Helsley | UCB |
| 9/29/2010 | Adam Ashcraft | Fed NY |
| 10/6/2010 | Alexei Tchistyi | UCB |
| 10/13/2010 | Anna Scherbina | UC Davis |
| 10/20/2010 | Amit Seru | Chicago |
| 10/27/2010 | Andrew Lo | MIT |
| 11/3/2010 | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh | NYU |
| 11/10/2010 | Edward Glaeser | Harvard |
| 11/17/2010 | Ayako Yasuda | UC Davis |
| 11/24/2010 | Gary Richardson | UC Irvine |
Spring 2010
| 1/20/2010 | Robert Novy-Marx | Chicago |
| 1/27/2010 | Yves Zenou | UCB |
| 2/3/2010 | Sumitra Jha | Stanford |
| 2/10/2010 | Yuming Fu | National Univeristy of Singapore |
| 2/17/2010 | Tracy Turner | Kansas State University |
| 2/24/2010 | James Vickery | Fed NY |
| 3/3/2010 | Nils Kok | Maastricht |
| 3/10/2010 | William Goetzmann | Yale |
| 3/17/2010 | Paolo Sodini | Stockholm School of Economics |
| 3/31/2010 | Gilles Duranton | Toronto |
| 4/7/2010 | Dennis Epple | Carnegie Mellon |
| 4/14/2010 | Giovanni Peri | UC Davis |
| 4/28/2010 | Christopher Meyer | Columbia/Fed NY |
| 5/5/2010 | Burton Hollifield | Carnegie Mellon |
For more information about the Research Seminars, please contact Tom Chappelear, faculty assistant, at (510) 643-6109 or email him at [email protected].
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