The ReCapNet focuses on the interactions between real estate markets and capital markets. The aim of the network is to assess the consequences of such interactions for housing and commercial real estate markets, for the development perspectives of different real estate markets and for the stability of real estate and financial markets.

Join the 13th ReCapNet Conference on 18 - 19 November 2021 for a virtual and in-person conference and the opportunity to hear our keynote speaker Markus K. Brunnermeier.

All sessions will be availabale as live streams. We will send you the login details around 3 days in advance.

The conference and keynote lecture are sponsored by KTH Digitalization Platform.

There is an additional registration for the Keynote Lecture by Markus K. Brunnermeier on "Resilience and Sustainability in the Context of Financial Crisis and Digitalization". Please sign up here for the KEYNOTE.

Our CONFERENCE speakers are:

Thursday, 18 November

Asset Securitization and Firm Expansion in Product Markets: Evidence from the Real Estate Development Industry by Chao Ma (Xiamen University)
Tobin Tax Policy, Housing Speculation, and Property Market Dynamics by Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Kwong Wing Chau (The University of Hong Kong), Maggie R. Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Wayne Xinwei Wan (Cambridge)
Assessing the explanatory power of dwelling condition in automated valuation models within real estate by Are Oust (NTNU), Jens Erik Waage (NTNU), Sjur Westgaard (NTNU), Nahom Kidane Yemane (NTNU)
Misalignments in house prices and economic growth in Europe by Juan Carlos Cuestas (Tallinn University of Technology and Universitat Jaume I), Merike Kukk (Tallinn University of Technology), Natalia Levenko (Tallinn University of Technology)
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction by Sven Damen (University of Antwerp) and Geert Goeyvaerts (KU Leuven)
Deciphering Private Equity Incentive Contracting and Fund Leverage Choice by Timothy J. Riddiough (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Ex-Ante Predictability of REIT Returns by Gene Birz (Southern Connecticut State University), Erik Devos (University of Texas at El Paso), Sandip Dutta (Southern Connecticut State University), Khoa Nguyen (Southern Connecticut State University), Desmond Tsang (McGill University)

Friday, 19 November

Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin by Anja Hahn (WU Vienna), Konstantin A. Kholodilin (DIW Berlin and NRU HSE St. Petersburg), Sofie Waltl (WU Vienna and LISER)
How Do Assessed Values Affect Transaction Prices of Homes? by Simon Stehle (University of Konstanz)
Determinants of Price Discrimination and Switching Mortgage Provider in Times of Regulation and Digitalization by Endre J. Reite (NTNU), Steven Ongena (University of Zürich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven, NTNU and CEPR), Florentina Paraschiv (NTNU and University of St. Gallen)
Housing and Mortgage Markets with Climate-Change Risk: Evidence from Wildfires in California by Paulo Issler (Berkeley), Richard Stanton (Berkeley), Carles Vergara-Alert (IESE Business School – University of Navarra), Nancy Wallace (Berkeley)
The Missing Home Buyers: Regional Heterogeneity and Credit Contractions by Pierre Mabille (INSEAD)

ReCapNet Conference 2021