Housing, Household Debt, and the Macroeconomy Conference
September
22
2023
The Macro Finance Research Program (MFR) at the Becker Friedman Institute is hosting the Housing, Household Debt, and the Macroeconomy Conference on September 22, 2023. This conference will bring together leading scholars from the Chicago area for presentations on the latest research related to this topic.
This conference is by invitation only. If you have any questions, please email mfrinfo@uchicago.edu.
An agenda is in progress and will be subject to change.
Agenda
Friday, September 22, 2023
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:50 am
Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame
9:50 am - 10:20 am
Break
10:20 am - 11:10 am
The History of American Mortgage Contracts
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
11:10 am - 12:00 pm
Mortgage Lock-In, Mobility, and Labor Reallocation
Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:00 pm - 1:10 pm
Lunch
1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution
Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks
Pascal Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
3:20 pm - 4:10 pm
Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes
Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania
4:10 pm