UC Berkeley Real Estate Seminar, Spring, 2006

Logistics:

Monday 12-2 PM, C330
Preseminar for PhD students 11-12, C330
DATE   SPEAKER   PAPER     PRESEMINAR
1/30   Mark Flannery, U Flordia   New Estimates of the Jumbo-Conforming Mortgage Spread   Jaffee
2/6 No Seminar
2/13 Michael Greenstone, MIT Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence From the Housing Market and the Superfund Program Davidoff
2/20 No Seminar
2/27 No Seminar
3/6 Stephen Ross, U Connecticut The Optimal Capital Structure Of Banks Under Deposit Insurance And Capital Requirements<(joint with Harding, Liang) Davidoff
3/13 David Figlio, U Florida Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College Study Habits and Performance Wallace
3/20(note changed date) Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing Cycles: Will America's Future Downtowns Be Rich? Edelstein
3/27 No Seminar
3/29 (special Wednesday meeting) Gilles Duranton, U Toronto Does Local Taxation Affect Business' Decisions? None
4/3 Francois Ortalo-Magne, U Wisconsin The Political Economy of Housing Supply Davidoff
4/10 No Seminar
4/17 Tim Riddiough, U Wisconsin A Generalized Sharecropping Model of Retail Lease Contracting and Licensing Agreements Davidoff
4/24 Richard Green, George Washingtc Forced Sales and Farmland Prices: Testing for Discrimination against Black and Small Farmers Edelstein
5/1 Alex Anas, SUNY Buffalo Curbing Excess Sprawl with Congestion Tolls and Urban Boundaries Davidoff
and When Are Urban Growth Boundaries Not a Second-Best to Congestion Tolls?
5/8 Emek Basker, U Missouri TBA Davidoff