Wisconsin Real Estate Academic Conference

27-28 April 2007

Thursday 4/26 (Optional)

21:30 Concert and dancing with The Contractions at the King Club, 114 King Street, Madison.  If you plan to attend, be there closer to 21:00, as the club is small, and the band is very popular, in particular with Morris’s students!

Friday 4/27, Grainger Hall, Room 3070

Chair: Timothy Riddiough

9:30   Coffee, pastries

9:45  Chris Mayer, Columbia University, “Private Information and Market Making in the Secondary Mortgage Market,” with Steven Drucker, Columbia University.

10:45 Ping Wang, Washington University in St Louis, “Housing Quality, Housing Development and Public Policy,” with Shin-Kun Peng, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University.

12:00 Lunch at Fluno

Chair: Steve Malpezzi

13:30 Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto, “Urban Growth and Transportation,” with Matt Turner, University of Toronto.

14:30  Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Amenities as TFP and the Factor of Four,” with François Ortalo-Magné, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

15:30 Break

16:00 Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University, “Mortgage Timing,” with Ralph Koijen, Tilburg University, and Otto van Hemert, New York University.

17:00 Juan Esteban Carranza, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “An Empirical Characterization of Mortgage Default in Colombia between 1997 and 2004.”

18:00 Adjourn

19:00 Dinner at Harvest, 21 N. Pinckney Street, for speakers, co-authors and conference attendees who have notified François (fom@bus.wisc.edu).

Saturday 4/28, Grainger Hall, Room 3070

Chair: Morris Davis

9:15  Coffee, pastries

9:30  Tomasz Piskorski, New York University, “Optimal Mortgage Design,” with Alexei Tchistyi, New York University.

10:30 François Ortalo-Magné, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com” with Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University.

11:30 Adjourn

Hotel: Doubletree near campus