Overview
The goal of the workshop is to discuss and support the development of new theoretical and empirical frameworks that quantify these frictions, identify transmission mechanisms, and evaluate how they interact across demand and supply. We consider work on households, lenders, developers, land lords, intermediaries, and on how policies (including borrower-based macroprudential regulation) propagate through markets to shape prices, quantities, mobility, and access to homeownership. The workshop welcomes a broad range of approaches to measurement and modeling, including:
- Empirical studies using transaction-level, listings, appraisal, or credit registry data.
- Reduced-form designs, structural estimation, and models with financial constraints, search, bargaining, and illiquidity.
- Quantitative macro-housing models with heterogeneous agents and policy counterfactuals.
- Applications of AI and high-dimensional methods to housing and credit markets
Keynote Lectures
The workshop will feature keynote lectures by:
Timothy McQuade
Associate Professor of Finance, Real Estate, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and NBER
Andreas Fuster
Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL and CEPR
Submission and Presentation Details
Authors are invited to submit full papers or extended abstracts. Submissions should be sent as PDF files via conforganizer.com. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend and present at the workshop in person. We have allocated 25 minutes for the presentation, 15 minutes for the discussion, and 5 minutes for general Q&A. The final program will include approximately 10-12 papers.
Please submit your full paper or extended abstract by 15 April 2026 on this website:
The workshop will start on the afternoon of the 24th of August at the Frankfurt School of Finance &Management, to allow interested participants to arrive in the morning. The first day will feature an academic session and a panel discussion followed by a workshop dinner. The 25th of August will feature a full day of academic sessions
Doctoral Student Session We reserve two presentation slots in the program for PhD candidates. Submissions by doctoral students can include job market papers or co-authored work. Limited travel support is available for presenters without access to institutional funding. Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 15 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2026
- Workshop dates: 24-25 August 2026
Local Organizers
Cristian Badarinza (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, NUS Business School)
Claes Bäckman (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE)
Contact Information
For questions regarding organizational details, submissions, or the workshop, please contact:
c.badarinza@fs.de or claes.backman@gmail.com