Public Affairs 4240

8:45 Continental breakfast

9:00 welcome

9:10  Tom Nichols (Harvard GSB), Real Estate Prices During the Roaring Twenties and
the Great Depression

10:10 break

10:30 Lee Ohanian (UCLA), The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective

11:30 Lunch

1:00  Charles Calomiris (Columbia University), The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus:
Lessons from the 2007-2008 Housing Turmoil (joint with Stanley Longhofer and
William Miles)

2:00 break

2:20 Kenneth Snowden (UNC Greensboro), Covered Farm Mortage Bonds in the Late
Nineteenth Century U.S.

3:20 conference ends

3:30 coffee with graduate students (Allison Shertzer, Ryan Vaughn, Matt Hill, Hernan Winkler, Mohamed Saleh)