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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

Economics of Real Estate and Local Public Finance

Joe Gyourko, Chris Mayer and Todd Sinai, Organizers

July 22-23, 2009

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Room TBA

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JULY 21:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	LEAH BROOKS, University of Toronto
	WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto
	The Micro-Empirics of Collective Action: The Case of Business Improvement Districts
	Discussant: FERNANDO FERREIRA, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:00 pm	BENJAMIN OLKEN, MIT and NBER
	MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER
	Informal Taxation
	Discussant: ROGER GORDON, UC, San Diego and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
	CHRISTOPHER PALMER, MIT
	PARAG PATHAK, MIT and NBER
	Externalities from Rent Control? Evidence from Cambridge, MA
	Discussant: ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Legal Seafoods, Kendall Sq.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	LEO FELER, Brown University
	Capital Subsidies and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Brazilian Cities
	Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
9:30 am	Break
10:00 am	FRANCOIS ORTALO-MAGNE, University of Wisconsin
	ANDREA PRAT, London School of Economics
	Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
	Discussant: NANCY WALLACE, UC, Berkeley
11:00am	RAJ CHETTY, Harvard University and NBER
	ADAM SZEIDL, UC, Berkeley
	The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice
	Discussant: STEPHEN SHORE, Johns Hopkins University
12:00n	Lunch
1:00pm	JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER
	STEFANO GIGLIO, Harvard University
	PARAK PATHAK, MIT and NBER
	Forced Sales and House Prices
	Discussant: CHRIS MAYER, Columbia University and NBER
2:00pm	TOMASZ PISKORSKI, Columbia University
	AMIT SERU, University of Chicago
	VIKRANT VIG, London Business School
	Securtization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime
	Mortgage Crisis
	Discussant: VICTORIA IVASHINA, Harvard University
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	PIET EICHHOLTZ, Maastricht University
	NILS KOK, Masstricht University
	JOHN QUIGLEY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Doing Well by Doing Good: Green Office Buildings
	Discussant: JOSEPH GYOURKO, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4:30pm	Adjourn