Conference on real estate and financial stability

The Department of Economics and Finance, the Global Research Unit, and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research co-organised the Conference on Real Estate and Financial Stability from 22nd to 23rd August 2016.

Sponsored by the Hung Hing Ying and Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation (孔慶熒及梁巧玲慈善基金), the conference attracted over 50 local and overseas researchers from major research institutions to join and share their insights.

The conference focused on issues related to changes under real estate market fluctuations, and their impact on financial stability in society, including the income of households and firms, the availability of bank loans, the securitisation of other real estate-related assets, and the investment portfolio management, etc.

Welcome by Dr Charles Leung Ka-yui, Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance, the conference featured two keynote speeches titled Commercial Real Estate and Financial Stability by Prof Timothy Riddiough from the School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Age, Demographics, and the Demand for Housing, Revisited by Prof Richard Green from the University of Southern California.

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