John At The Center

I’ll attempt to live blog this event (pdf). Here’s the agenda for tomorrow:

AGENDA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30TH

11:00am Registration Opens

11:30am Lunch

12:00pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Stuart Gabriel, UCLA

John Quigley, UC Berkeley

12:15pm The Policy Maker’s Perspective on the

Financial Meltdown and the Economy

Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Stuart Gabriel, UCLA, Moderator

1:15pm The Future of the Housing Finance System

Nancy Wallace, UC Berkeley, Moderator

Panelists:

Brad Blackwell, Wells Fargo Bank

John Krainer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Paul Leonard, Center for Responsible Lending

Paul Jablansky, 400 Capital Management LLC

2:30pm Break

3:00pm Are Government Agencies Up To The Task?

Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, Moderator

Panelists:

Robert Van Order, University of Michigan

Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania

John Weicher, Hudson Institute

Susan Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics

4:30pm Closing Remarks; Adjourn