Universities-Research Conference on Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective.

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The NBER held a Universities Research Conference in Cambridge on "Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective" on September 23 and 24, 2011. NBER Research Associates Price V. Fishback of the University of Arizona, Kenneth A. Snowden of University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Eugene N. White of Rutgers University organized the conference and chose these papers for discussion:

* Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University, "The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach"

* Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER, "How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-Century GI Bills" (NBER Working Paper No. 17166)

* Carlos Garriga, Mathew Chambers, and Donald Schlagenhauf, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "Did Housing Policies Cause the Post-War Boom in Homeownership? A General Equilibrium Analysis"

* William Goetzmann, Yale University and NBER, and Rik Frehen and Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University, "Financial Innovation in Late-Eighteenth Century Netherlands: The Case of American Land Securities"

* Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College, "Lending...