CBID Workshop on Housing and Mortgage Markets

CBID One-day workshop on Housing and Mortgage Markets

Thursday, 4 June 2026
Waterside Building
Durham University Business School, Durham

9:00-9:30      Registration and Coffee

9:30-9:45      Welcome Address by Professor Kieran Fernandes, Executive Dean of Durham University Business School

9:45-10:45    Keynote: João Cocco (LBS), Locking in the rate or staying flexible? Mortgage refinancing around an interest rate shock (with Philippe Bracke, Elena Markoska and Purnoor Tak)

10:45-11:00 Discussion     

11:00-12:00 Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus), Equity Begets Opportunity: The Matthew Effect in Housing (with Asaf Bernstein, Felix Gaudreault and Peter Koudijs)

12:00-12:15 Discussion

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Arzu Uluc (Bank of England), Housing Affordability through Shared Ownership: Evidence from the UK (with Stanimira Milcheva and Damian S. Damianov)

14:30-14:45 Discussion

14:45-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 Rajdeep Chakraborti (Durham), Insurance Deserts: Supply, Demand, and Climate Risk (with Pedro Gete and Ruizhi Xu)

16:00-16:15 Discussion

17:30           Dinner (by invitation)