The Pacific Space Program 2026

MARCH 5

12:00 -- 13:00: Catered Lunch (sandwiches/lunch boxes)

13:00 -- 13:45: Climate Risk Across the United States
Presenter: Adrien Bilal (Stanford)
Discussant: Levi Crews (UCLA)

13:45 -- 14:30: Housing Drag in the United States
Presenter: Fabian Trottner (UCSD)
Discussant: Johannes Wieland (SF FED, UCSD)

14:30 -- 14:45: Coffee Break (coffee + cookies)

14:45 -- 15:30: Regulation Meets Public Infrastructure: The Case of Environmental Water Policy in China
Presenter: Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Stanford)
Discussant: Brian Greaney (University of Washington)

15:30 -- 16:15: Measuring Winners and Losers from Increasing Housing Supply
Presenter: Laura Weiwu (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Gregor Schubert (UCLA)

16:15 -- 16:30: Coffee Break (coffee + cookies)

16:30 -- 17:15: The Local Economic and Political Effects of Accessing Foreign Labor Markets
Presenter: Mathilde Munoz (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Benny Kleinman (Stanford)

18:30: Dinner at off-campus restaurant

MARCH 6

8:30 -- 9:00: Breakfast (coffee, bagels, fruits)

9:00 -- 9:45: Bank Branches and the Allocation of Capital Across Cities
Presenter: Olivia Bordeu (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Quinn Maingi (USC)

9:45 -- 10:30: Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities
Presenter: John Mondragon (SF Fed)
Discussant: Antoine Levy (UC Berkeley)

10:30 -- 10:45: Coffee Break (coffee + cookies)

10:45 -- 11:30: Rebuild or Relocate: Recovery after Natural Disasters
Presenter: Shifrah Aron-Dine (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Matt Kahn (USC)

11:30 -- 12:15: Jim Crow and Economic Development
Presenter: Lukas Althoff (Stanford)
Discussant: Thomas Chaney (USC)

12:15 -- 13:00: Lunch (sandwiches/lunch boxes)

PARTICIPANTS

Althoff, Lukas (Stanford)
Aron-Dine, Shifrah (UC Berkeley)
Bilal, Adrien (Stanford)
Bordeu, Olivier (UC Berkeley)
Chaney, Thomas (USC)
Crews, Levi (UCLA)
De La Roca, Jorge (USC)
Eckert, Fabian (UCSD)
Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco (Berkeley)
Greaney, Brian (University of Washington)
Jiang, Xian (UC Davis)
Kahn, Matt (USC)
Kikuchi, Shinnosuke (UCSD)
Kleinman, Benny (Stanford)
Levy, Antoine (UC Berkeley Haas)
Maingi, Quinn (USC Marshall)
Miao, Weiting (Stanford)
Mondragon, John (SF Fed)
Morten, Melanie (Stanford)
Munoz, Mathilde (UC Berkeley)
Parkhomenko, Andrii (USC)
Redding, Stephen (Stanford)
Rosenthal-Kay, Jordan (SF Fed)
Schubert, Gregor (UCLA Anderson)
Suarez Serrato, Juan Carlos (Stanford)
Tricaud, Clemence (UCLA Anderson)
Trottner, Fabian (UCSD)
Tsivanidis, Nick (Berkeley Haas)
Weiwu, Laura (UC Berkeley Haas)
Wieland, Johannes (UCSD)
Zarate, Roman (UCSD)
Zhao, Weihua (University of Louisville)