The Inaugural Baruch College & National University of Singapore Real Estate Conference
AGENDA
Date: Thursday, April 23
Location: Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave. (at 24th St.), Room 14-220 (14th Floor)
8:00 AM: Registration Opens / Light Breakfast
8:20 AM: Opening Remarks
8:30 –10:00 AM: Academic Paper Session 1 – Housing Supply and Urban Dynamics
How Much Does Permitting Reduce Housing Supply? (Presenter: Evan Soltas, MIT; Discussant: Betty Wang, University of Hong Kong)
How Housing Supply Expansions Reshape Cities (Presenter: Matthijs Korevaar, Erasmus University; Discussant: Seohee Kim, Indiana University)
New Deal Public Housing and Racial Segregation in U.S. Cities (Presenter: Hector Blanco, Rutgers University; Discussant: Christophe Spaenjers, University of Colorado Boulder)
10:30 – 11:15 AM: Keynote Address – The Rise of Non-Banks and Its Implications for Real Estate Finance
Tomasz Piskorski (Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate, Finance Division, Columbia University)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Industry Panel Discussion:
From Policy to Practice: A Look into the Future of New York City Real Estate
Moderator: Frederick Cooper (Founder, Fin River Advisors)
John Raymond (Vice President, Real Estate Transactions, NYC EDC)
Anna Ponting (Chief of Staff, NYC Department of Environmental Protection)
Brian Steinwurtzel (Co-CEO, GFP Real Estate)
Jim Costello (Chief Economist, MSCI-Real Estate)
12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 PM: Paper Session 2 – Mortgage Markets and Insurance
The Effect of Rising Insurance Premiums on Mortgage Delinquency and Household Relocation (Presenter: Shan Ge, NYU; Discussant: Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Economics of Property Insurance (Presenter: Hyeyoon Jung, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Discussant: Fabrice Tourre, Baruch College)
The Effects of GSE Pricing on Home Purchases: Evidence from Recent G-fee Changes (Presenter: Feng Liu, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Discussant: Wei Li, Baruch College)
3:15 – 4:45 PM: Paper Session 3 – Commercial Real Estate and Policy Risk
Remote Work, Financial Frictions, and Office Valuation in Spatial Equilibrium (Presenter: Franklin Qian, UNC Chapel Hill; Discussant: Changwei Zhan, University of Hong Kong)
Pricing Government Contract Risk Premia: Evidence from the 2025 Federal Lease Terminations (Presenter: Cameron LaPoint, Yale School of Management; Discussant: Dan Greenwald, NYU)
Fiscal Externalities of Transaction Taxes: Evidence from the Los Angeles Mansion Tax (Presenter: Teju Velayudhan, UC Irvine; Discussant: Luis A. Lopez, University of Illinois at Chicago)
4:45 PM Closing Remarks