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
08:30:00–09:00:00

Breakfast

09:00:00–09:50:00

Dual Credit Markets: Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption

Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame

09:50:00–10:20:00

Break

10:20:00–11:10:00

The History of American Mortgage Contracts

Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

11:10:00–12:00:00

Mortgage Lock-In, Mobility, and Labor Reallocation

Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:00:00–13:10:00

Lunch

13:10:00–14:00:00

Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution

Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University

14:00:00–14:30:00

Break

14:30:00–15:20:00

Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks

Pascal Noel, University of Chicago and NBER

15:20:00–16:10:00

Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes

Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania

16:10:00

Conference Adjourns