13th Annual Conference: Real Estate and Urban Economics (Joint with IREUS)

13th Annual Conference
Real Estate And Urban Economics
(Joint with IREUS)

May
2026

Monday

Urban Economics and New Economies
Chair: Yongheng DENG (University of Wisconsin–Madison and ABFER

Venue: Tanglin 3 & 4

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Crowding

Yizhen GU (Peking University)
Qu TANG (Jinan University)
Kai WU* (The University of Texas at Austin)
Ben ZOU (Purdue University)

Discussant:
Daniel McMILLEN (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Conference Paper

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Do Agglomeration Externalities Form Service Clusters? Evidence from a Location Lottery

Yuki HIGUCHI* (Sophia University)
Ngan Bich LE (Hitotsubashi University)
Mari TANAKA (The University of Tokyo)

Discussant:
Martina VIARENGO (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Conference Paper

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Tech-driven Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Solar Expansion in China

Hanming FANG (University of Pennsylvania and ABFER)
Ming LI* (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Yang YANG (Chinese University of Hong Kong and ABFER)

Discussant:
Jing WU (Tsinghua University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

May
2026

Wednesday

Mortgage and Housing Market
Chair: Sheridan TITMAN (The University of Texas at Austin and ABFER)

Venue: Tanglin 1 & 2

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Decision-Making by Women in Mortgage Repayment: Bargaining versus Tokenism

Sumit AGARWAL (National University of Singapore and ABFER)
Abhiman DAS (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)
Pulak GHOSH (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and ABFER)
Anand SRINIVASAN (National University of Singapore)
Man ZHANG* (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Tse-Chun LIN (University of Hong Kong and ABFER)

Conference Paper

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

The Expectation Channel of Mortgage Policy

Seongjin PARK* (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Brent AMBROSE (Pennsylvania State University and ABFER)

Conference Paper

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Housing Market Signals and Beliefs about Social Mobility

Yeow Hwee CHUA (Nanyang Technological University)
Wenyi ZHANG* (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Marco GROTTERIA (London Business School)

Conference Paper

* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 25 Feb 2026.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

Contact Information

Program Director	Conference Organizer
Lu HAN (University of Wisconsin-Madison and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Stijn VAN NIEUWERBURGH (Columbia University and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Yu QIN (National University of Singapore and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tien Foo SING (National University of Singapore and ABFER) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.