7th Annual Conference 
Real Estate And Urban Economics

 
 
27
May
2019
Monday

Housing Market and the Macroeconomy
Chair: Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore & ABFER)

Location: Siloso 5

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Real Estate Booms and Misallocation of Capital in China

Ting Chen (Princeton University)
Laura Liu* (Peking University)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
Li-An Zhou (Peking University)

Discussant:
Michael Weber (University of Chicago)

10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Super Debt Cities

Mathias Hoffmann* (University of Zurich)
Yi Huang (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Ye Zhang (The Swiss Finance Institute)

Discussant:
Choi Hyun Soo (KAIST)

11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Tax Evasion, Capital Gains Taxes, and the Housing Market

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapre & ABFER)
Keyang Li (Tsinghua University )
Yu Qin (National University of Singapore)
Jing Wu* (Tsinghua University)
Jubo Yan (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Yupeng Lin (National University of Singapore & ABFER)



Household Behavior
Chair: Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison & ABFER)

Location: Siloso 5

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
FinTech Borrowers: Lax-Screening or Cream-Skimming?

Marco Di Maggio (Harvard University)
Vincent Yao* (Georgia State University)

Discussant:
Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore & ABFER)

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Private Equity Incentive Contracting and Fund Leverage Choice When Investors Only Care About Meeting Return Targets

Timothy Riddiough* (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant:
Yizhou Xiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Sticky Expectations in the Housing Market: Evidence from the Housing Purchase Restriction Policy

Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore & ABFER)
Hong Tu (Nankai University)
Jing Wu (Tsinghua University)
Weibiao Xu* (Nankai University)

Discussant:
Bohui Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

  
29
MAY
2019
Wednesday

Real Estate Finance
Chair: Tien Foo Sing (National University of Singapore)

Location: Siloso 5

9:00 am – 9:45 am
Multiple Tranches Information Asymmetry and the Impediments to Mortgage Renegotiation

Sanket Korgaonkar* (Pennsylvania State University)

Discussant:
Cristian Badarinza (National University of Singapore)

9:45 am - 10:30 am
Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles: Evidence from German Cities, Firms, and Banks

Peter Bednarek (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Chang Ma* (Fudan University)
Daniel Marcel te Kaat (Osnabruck University)
Alessandro Rebucci (JHU Carey Business School)

Discussant:
Daniel McMillen (University of Illinois at Chicago)

10:30 am - 11:00 am
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Information Asymmetries and Learning in Commercial Real Estate Markets

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore & ABFER)
Long Wang* (ShanghaiTech University)
Tien Foo Sing (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Barry Scholnick (University of Alberta)

11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Gravity Counterparties and Foreign Investment

Cristian Badarinza* (National University of Singapore)
Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London)
Chihiro Shimizu (Nihon University)

Discussant:
Yi Huang (Graduate Institute, Geneva)

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 9 May 2019.


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Program Director Conference Organizer

Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison & ABFER)
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Sheridan Titman (University of Texas, Austin)
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Tien Foo Sing (National University of Singapore)
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (Columbia University)
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