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“HOW TO FIX DISTRESSED PROPERTY MARKETS?”
Half-Day Central Bank of Ireland Conference: 13th February 2013, Institute of Bankers, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
8.45 – 9.00 Opening Remarks
Patrick Honohan, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland
9.00 – 10.30 Session 1: The experience in the United States
Paper 1: Dealing with a mortgage crisis: A comparison of the response by US and Irish authorities
Kieran McQuinn (Central Bank of Ireland) and Anthony Murphy (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Paper 2: Foreclosure externalities: Some new evidence
Kris Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Paper 3: The US mortgage crisis – are there lessons for policymakers
Michael Fratantoni (Mortgage Bankers Association) and Michael Moore (International Monetary Fund)
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45- 11.45 Session 2: Some Irish perspectives
Paper 1: A distressed mortgage market: Could a fiscal stimulus help?
Robert Kelly and Kieran McQuinn (both Central Bank of Ireland)
Paper 2: Understanding Irish house price movements – a user cost of capital approach
Frank Browne, Thomas Conefrey and Gerard Kennedy (all Central Bank of Ireland)
11.45- 1.00 Session 3: Panel discussion
Moderator: Alan Ahearne (NUI Galway and Central Bank Commission)
To confirm attendance, please e-mail: lisa.malone@centralbank.ie or kieran.mcquinn@centralbank.ie
Charles Wyplosz will give a public talk at noon this Wednesday in the Long Room Hub. This is part of a TCD LRH/IIIS series running during Ireland’s EU Presidency. Details here.
Wyplosz will also give a research seminar 9am-10.30am on Wednesday in IIIS seminar room on “Eurozone Crisis: It’s About Public Debts, not Competitiveness“
With thanks to Eurointelligence, here are a couple of useful antidotes to the complacency that will kill the euro unless it is abandoned: here and here.
(If Ashok is right then, contra Manasse, the Eurozone crisis will become a bit more symmetric, but he is right to query whether this will be good news for the project.)
And here is an account of a Slovenian constitutional court decision. If the account of the legal reasoning is accurate then this is quite appalling.
The most recent issue of the Economic and Social Review has a symposium on the politics of financialisation, including papers on the US, a comparative analysis of financialisation and inequality in the OECD and my own paper on”The Crisis of Financialisation in Ireland”
The table of contents, with links to papers, is here: http://www.esr.ie/vol%2043_4/ESRTOC43_4.htm
The abstract of the Ireland paper is below: