Agenda/Program | Columbia Business School

America’s Housing Crisis: Private-Sector Responses and Public Policy Innovation

Columbia Club, 15 West 43rd Street

Special Presentations by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Ronnie Chan, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties, Ltd.

5:45pm: Reception
6:30pm: Introduction by Christopher Mayer, Columbia Business School
6:35pm: Special Presentation by Nobel Prize Winning Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
6:55pm: Special Presentation by Ronnie Chan, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties, Ltd.
7:15pm: Audience Q&A
7:30pm: Adjourn

Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd Street

8:00am: Breakfast
8:30am: Opening Remarks, Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow
8:40am: Overview of the Nation’s Housing Market: Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries
9:00am: Congressional Perspective: The Honorable Jim Himes, U.S. House of Representatives
9:30am: Private-Sector Responses to the Crisis: What’s Working and What’s Not?

Moderator: S. Mitra Kalita, Writer, Wall Street Journal

Richard A. Smith, Chairman, CEO and President of Realogy Corp.
Peter M. Orser, President and CEO of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Co.
Laurie Goodman, Senior Managing Director, RMBS Strategy, Amherst Securities Group
Jack Macdowell, Chief Investment Officer, Carrington Capital Management, LLC

10:20am: Audience Q&A
10:35am: Short Break (10 minutes)
10:45am: Policy Innovation in the Housing Sector: What Could Make Things Better?

Moderator: Jason Gold, Senior Fellow, PPI

Christopher Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School
Joseph Gyourko, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Business, and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business
Scott Simon, Managing Director, PIMCO
The Honorable Janice Eberly, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, United States Department of the Treasury