Real Estate and Mortgage Finance

The Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) is pleased to invite academics and practitioners to a conference on “Real Estate and Mortgage Finance” on August 20-21, 2012, at Spårvagnshallarna, Birger Jarlsgatan 57A in Stockholm.

The first conference day will feature key-note presentations by leading scholars in the field, which will be accompanied by a panel discussion where practitioners get to express their views on the featured topics.

The key-note speakers are:

· William Goetzmann, Yale University
· Dwight Jaffee, UC Berkeley
· Christopher Mayer, Columbia University
· Nancy Wallace, UC Berkeley
· Joseph Williams, Professors Capital

The second conference day has a standard academic format, and aims to provide an academic forum showcasing the frontier research on real estate finance. We will have six presentations of recent research papers, with a discussant for each paper.