Financing housing capital.

• Position: Conferences - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on financing housing capital - Conference news - Brief article

An NBER Conference on Financing Housing Capital, organized by Research Associate Monika Piazzesi of Stanford University, took place on April 25, 2014 in Chicago. These papers were discussed:

* Matteo Iacoviello and Luca Guerrieri, Federal Reserve Board, "Collateral Constraints and Macroeconomic Asymmetries"

* Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago and NBER; Matteo Maggiori, New York University and NBER; and Johannes

Stroebel, New York University, "Very Long-Run Discount Rates"

* Michael Sockin, Princeton University, and Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER, "Learning about the Neighborhood: A Model of Housing Cycles"

* David Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER, and Adi Sunderam, Harvard University, "Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage...