Behavioral Finance/Housing Bubbles.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes - Brief article

The Behavioral Economics Working Group held a meeting on Behavioral Finance/Housing Bubbles at the University of Chicago's Booth School on April 14, 2012. NBER Research Associates Christopher J. Mayer of Columbia University, Jose Scheinkman of Princeton University, and Robert Shiller of Yale University organized the meeting and chose these papers to discuss:

* Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009"

* Alex M. Chinco, New York University's Stern School of Business, and Christopher J. Mayer, "Distant Speculators and Asset Bubbles in the Housing Market"

* Ing-Haw Cheng and Sahil Raina, University of Michigan, and Wei Xiong, Princeton...