2nd European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
At the 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
August 21-25, 2012
Bratislava, Slovakia
Program Committee: Thierry Mayer (Science Po), Henry Overman (LSE, SERC), and Daniel Sturm (LSE)
Conference Program
There are no discussants in UEA sessions this year.
WED 11.00-12.30: UEA LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS 1
- Ina Blind
Commuter train access and residential sorting
- Eva Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos van Ommeren
Do rich households live farther away from their workplaces?
- ROSA SANCHIS-GUARNER
Driving up Wages: The Effects of Road Improvements in Great Britain
- Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Matz Dahlberg, Peter Fredriksson
On the dynamics of segregation
WED 11.00-12.30: UEA URBAN STRUCTURE AND URBAN SYSTEMS
- Kristian Giesen, Jens Suedekum
The size distribution across all 'cities': A unifying approach
- Marcus Berliant, Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang
Taxing Pollutuion: Agglomeration and Welfare Consequences
- Marcus Berliant, Hiroki Watanabe
A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution
- Stefan Tscharaktschiew, Georg Hirte, Alex Anas
Optimal Fuel Taxes and Urban Spatial Structure
WED 14.00-15.30: UEA TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY
- Marius Brülhart, Céline Carrère, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
The Differential Effects of Trade Liberalization on Large and Small Towns: Theory and Evidence
- Alberto Dalmazzo, Antonio Accetturo, Guido de Blasio
Skill Polarization in Local Labour Markets under Share-Altering Technical Change
- Jens Suedekum, Sebastian Findeisen, Wolfgang Dauth
The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
- Suzanne Kok
The division of labour across German cities and the extent of the market.
WED 14.00-15.30: UEA TRANSPORT
- Richard Arnott, Eren Inci, John Rowse
Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion: A Diagrammatic Exposition
- Martijn Kobus, Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Piet Rietveld
Drivers' willingness to pay for curb parking (rather than in a garage)
- Jos Van Ommeren, Giovanni Russo
Time-varying parking prices
- Sergejs Gubins, Erik T. Verhoef
Bottleneck congestion in a monocentric city with endogenous location choice
WED 16.00-17.30: UEA SPATIAL INTERACTIONS
- Kentaro Nakajima, Yukiko Saito, Iichiro Uesugi
The Localization of Interfirm Transaction Relationships
- Raphael Parchet
Are Local Tax Rates Strategic Complements or Substitutes?
- Stephen Billings, Erik Johnson
Localization and Co-Localization within an Urban Area
- Thomas de Graaff, Jan Rouwendal, Wim Bernasco
Social interaction and the spatial concentration of criminality
WED 16.00-17.30 UEA POLICY EVALUATION
- Raffaello Bronzini, Eleonora Iachini
ARE INCENTIVES FOR R&D EFFECTIVE? EVIDENCE FROM A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY APPROACH
- Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio
Local Development that Money Can’t Buy: Italy’s Contratti di Programma
- Henry Overman, Elias Einio
The Effects of Spatially Targeted Enterprise Initiatives: Evidence from UK LEGI
- Nicolai Wendland, Volker Nitsch
The IOCʼs Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth
THU 11.00-12.30: UEA Young Session
- Nicholas Sheard
The effect of air transport on the production of goods and services
- Hans Koster
Rocketing rents: The magnitude and attenuation of agglomeration economies using commercial rents and micro-data
- Daniel Da Mata
The Effects of Fiscal Equalization on Housing Markets: Evidence from Brazil
THU 16.00-17.30: UEA LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS 2
- Roberto Antonietti
From creativity to innovativeness: micro evidence from Italy
- Andreas Georgiadis, Ioannis Kaplanis, Vassilis Monastiriotis
Human capital externalities: Evidence from local labour markets
- Hildegunn Stokke, Jørn Rattsø, Fredrik Carlsen
Urban wage premium increasing with education level: Identification of agglomeration effects for Norway
- Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio, Gilles Duranton
Marshallian Labor Market Pooling: Evidence from Italy
THU 16.00-17.30: HOUSING
- Tuukka Saarimaa, Mika Kortelainen
Do Homeowners Benefit the Neighborhood? Evidence from Semiparametric Hedonic Regressions
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Kristoffer Möller, Sevrin Waights
On prisoner's dilemmas and gilded cages: The economics of heritage preservation
- John Clapp, Piet Eichholtz, Thies Lindenthal
Real Option Value over a Housing Market Cycle: West Berlin
- Jan Rouwendal, Marcus de Graaf
The demand for mortgage debt, increases in house prices and the elderly home equity puzzle