1st European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
At the 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
30th August - 3rd September 2011
Barcelona, Spain
Program Committee: Henry Overman (LSE), Diego Puga (IMDEA Social Sciences Institute), Kurt Schmidheiny (Basel and Pompeu Fabra) and Jacques-François Thisse (Université catholique de Louvain)
Conference Program
01A. Wed 11:00-12:45. Trade and Agglomeration (Room 10)
Chair: Steven Brakman
- Dennis Novy*
International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity
Discussant: Andrea Lamorgese
- Antonio Accetturo, Matteo Bugamelli, Andrea Lamorgese*
Skill upgrading and export in Italian manufacturing
Discussant: Jens Suedekum
- Jens Suedekum*, Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata
Spatial frictions
Discussant: Steven Brakman
- Steven Brakman*, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk, Abdella Oumer
The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Discussant: Dennis Novy
01B. Wed 11:00-12:45. Planning and Housing Supply (Room 11)
Chair: Wouter Vermeulen
- Carl Gaigné, Stéphane Riou, Jacques Thisse*
Are compact cities environmentally friendly?
Discussant: Hans Koster
- Hans Koster*, Jos van Ommeren, Piet Rietveld
Bombs, Boundaries and Buildings: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach to Measure the Costs of Housing Supply Restrictions
Discussant: Yuming Fu
- Yuming Fu*, Siqi Zheng, Hongyu Liu
Examining Cross-city Variation in Housing Supply Elasticity in a Spatial Equilibrium Model: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Discussant: Wouter Vermeulen
- Coen Teulings, Wouter Vermeulen*
Land ownership, development rights and investment in a stochastic city
Discussant: Jacques Thisse
02A. Wed 14:00-15:45. Housing and Homeownership (Room 10)
Chair: Christian Hilber
- Matthew Chambers, Carlos Garriga*, Don Schlagenhauf
Did Housing Policies Cause the Post-War Boom in Homeownership? A General Equilibrium Analysis
Discussant: David Genesove
- David Genesove*, Lu Han
Measuring the Thinness of Real Estate Markets
Discussant: Florence Goffette-Nagot
- Florence Goffette-Nagot*, Modibo Sidibé
Public housing as a springboard to homeownership: evidence from France
Discussant: Christian Hilber
- Christian Hilber*
The determinants of homeownership: Panel data evidence from Europe
Discussant: Carlos Garriga
02B. Wed 14:00-15:45. Transportation (Room 11)
Chair: Ina Blind
- Adelheid Holl, Garcia-Lopez Miquel-Angel, Viladecans-Marsal Elisabet*
Access to highways and suburbanization in urban agglomerations
Discussant: Nicolai Wendland
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Volker Nitsch, Nicolai Wendland*
Ease vs. Noise: On the Conflicting Effects of Transportation Infrastructure
Discussant: Jan Rouwendal
- Jan Rouwendal*, Yuval Kantor, Peter Nijkamp
Homeownership, unemployment and commuting distances
Discussant: Ina Blind
- Ina Blind*, Olof Åslund
Length of commute and work effort - an empirical analysis
Discussant: Viladecans-Marsal Elisabet
03A. Wed 16:15-18:00. Localisation (Room 10)
Chair: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
- Stephen Sheppard*
CANCELLED: Localization and dispersion of non-profit enterprises
Discussant: Yasusada Murata
- Yasusada Murata*, Ryo Nakajima, Ryosuke Okamoto, Ryuichi Tamura
Localized knowledge spillovers and patent citations: A distance-based approach
Discussant: Liqiu Zhao
- Liqiu Zhao*
Markups and Agglomeration: Price Competition vs. Externalities
Discussant: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
- Kristian Behrens, Gilles Duranton, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud*
Productive cities: Sorting, selection and agglomeration
Discussant: Stephen Sheppard
03B. Wed 16:15-18:00. Policy Evaluation (Room 11)
Chair: Henry Overman
- Giulia Faggio*, Henry G. Overman
The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Local Labour Markets
Discussant: Paul Cheshire
- Paul Cheshire*, Christian Hilber, Ioannis Kaplanis
Evaluating the Effects of Planning Policies on the Retail Sector: Or do Town Centre First Policies Deliver the Goods?
Discussant: Teemu Lyytikäinen
- Essi Eerola, Teemu Lyytikäinen*
The effects of publishing house price information: evidence form a natural experiment in Finland
Discussant: Henry Overman
- Steve Gibbons, Henry Overman*, Matti Sarvimäki
The long run impact of subsidizing commercial space in deprived neighbourhoods
Discussant: Giulia Faggio
04A. Thu 11:00-12:45. Agglomeration (Room 10)
Chair: Oded Hochman
- Hans Koster, Jos Van Ommeren*, Piet Rietveld
Estimating Firms’ Demand for Agglomeration
Discussant: Ioannis Kaplanis
- Ioannis Kaplanis*
NEW PAPER: Local Human Capital and its Impact on Local Employment Chances in Britain
Discussant: Giordano Mion
- Giordano Mion*, Wilfried Koch, Kristian Behrens
On the Lumpiness of Space
Discussant: Oded Hochman
- Oded Hochman*
Welfare Estimation in a General Equilibrium Model with Cities
Discussant: Jos Van Ommeren
04B. Thu 11:00-12:45. Migration (Room 11)
Chair: Stefan Bauernschuster
- Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb*, Erzo Luttmer, Oren Ziv
Do People Choose To Be Happy? Subjective Well-Being Across Cities
Discussant: Jordi Jofre-Monseny
- Javier Vazquez-Grenno, Jordi Jofre-Monseny*, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro
Immigration and Natives Preferences for Social Spending: Evidence from a massive immigration wave
Discussant: Jorge De la Roca
- Jorge De la Roca*
Selection in migration: Evidence from moves across Spanish cities
Discussant: Stefan Bauernschuster
- Oliver Falck, Stefan Bauernschuster*, Stephan Heblich, Jens Südekum
Should I Stay (Close by) or Should I Go? – Culture and Internal Migration
Discussant: Joshua Gottlieb
05A. Thu 16:15-18:00. Taxation and Public Goods (Room 10)
Chair: Kurt Schmidheiny
- Sylvie Charlot*, Sonia Paty, Virginie Piguet
Does fiscal cooperation increase local tax rates in urban areas?
Discussant: Carlo Menon
- Silvia Giacomelli, Carlo Menon*
Justice Efficiency and firm size in Italy: Evidence from the Neighbour's Tribunal
Discussant: Stephan Heblich
- Stephan Heblich*, Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch
Music in the Air: Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities
Discussant: Kurt Schmidheiny
- Eva Lüthi, Kurt Schmidheiny*
The Effect of Agglomeration Size on Local Taxes
Discussant: Sylvie Charlot
05B. Thu 16:15-18:00. Regional Transport and Subsidies (Room 11)
Chair: Ioulia Ossokina
- Maximilian von Ehrlich*, Sascha O. Becker, Peter Egger
Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Eff ects of Regional Subsidies A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Eff ects
Discussant: Gabriel M Ahlfeldt
- Gabriel M Ahlfeldt*
If we build, will they pay? Predicting property price effects of transport innovations
Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow*, Loren Brandt, Vernon Henderson, Matthew Turner, Qinghua Zhang
Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities
Discussant: Ioulia Ossokina
- Ioulia Ossokina*, Gerard Verweij
Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of traffic externalities on housing prices
Discussant: Maximilian von Ehrlich
06. Fri 14:00-15:45. Young Researchers (Room 10)
Chair: Philipp Ehrl
- Kristian Giesen*
An Economic Model for the Creation and Evolution of Cities
Discussant: Wen-jie Wu
- Wen-jie Wu*
Heterogeneous Community Choices in a Transitional Housing Market: New Evidence from Beijing, China
Discussant: Megha Mukim
- Megha Mukim*
Industry and the urge to cluster - A study of the informal sector in India
Discussant: Philipp Ehrl
- Philipp Ehrl*
The detection of agglomeration economies with consistent productivity estimates
Discussant: Kristian Giesen
* Presenter