Urban Economics Association

4th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

At the 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
August 26-29, 2014
St. Petersburg, Russia

Program Committee: Kristian Behrens (UQAM Montreal), Eleonora Patacchini (Syracuse) and Jens Suedekum (Duesseldorf, Chair)

There are no discussants in UEA sessions this year.

01A. Wed, Aug 27, 11:00-13:00. Theory (B-140)

Chair: R. Borck

T. Morita*, K. Yamamoto
Birth of Cities: Division of Labor and Transportation Costs
M. Wrede*
Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model
M. Berliant, M. Fujita*
The fine microstructure of knowledge creation dynamics: reporting further advances
R. Borck*
Will skyscrapers save the planet?

01B. Wed, Aug 27, 11:00-13:00. Immigration (B-141)

Chair: C. Ozgen

O. Levkovich*, J. Rouwendal, P. Naticchiono
Location choices of highly-educated foreign workers: the importance of urban amenities
G. Barone, G. de Blasio, A. D'Ignazio*
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and the politics. The role of immigration in shaping natives’ political preferences
L. Gobillon*, M. Solignac
Homeownership of immigrants in France
C. Ozgen*, C. Peters, A. Niehbuhr, P. Nijkamp, J. Poot
Immigration and Firm Productivity: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the Netherlands

02A. Wed, Aug 27, 14:00-16:00. NEG theory (B-140)

Chair: M. Pflüger

S. Kichko*, S. Kokovin, E. Zhelobodko
Trade Patterns and Export Pricing Under Non-CES Preferences
M. Parenti, J. Thisse, P. Ushchev*
Toward a theory of monopolistic competition
T. Tabuchi, J. Thisse*, X. Zhu
Technological Progress and Economic Geography
M. Pflüger*, T. Tabuchi
Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model

02B. Wed, Aug 27, 14:00-16:00. Taxation and local public finance (B-141)

Chair: D. Montolio

T. Saarimaa*, J. Tukiainen
Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers
M. Roller*, K. Schmidheiny
Mobility and Progressive Taxation
A. Ross*, K. Wolf
Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit
D. Montolio*, S. Planells Struse
The effect of football matches on crime patterns in Barcelona

03A. Wed, Aug 27, 16:15-18:15. Labor markets (B-140)

Chair: U. Zierahn

S. Brakman*, C. Van Marrewijk
Agglomerations, and cities in China: on the effectiveness of sorting
W. Dauth*, S. Findeisen, J. Suedekum
Adjusting to Globalization: Evidence from Heterogeneous Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany
O. Shepotylo*
Deregulation and productivity: selection or within-firm effect?
T. Gregory, A. Salomons, U. Zierahn*
Technological Change and Regional Labor Market Disparities in Europe

03B. Wed, Aug 27, 16:15-18:15. Parking and traffic policy (B-141)

Chair: I. Ossokina

E. Inci*, R Lindsey
Garage and Curbside Parking Competition with Search Congestion
B. De Borger, A. Russo*
Lobbying by Retailers and Urban Traffic Policy
H. De Groot, I. Ossokina*, C. Teulings
The welfare effects of transport infrastructure changes: a spatial general equilibrium perspective

EPAINOS 01. Thu, Aug 28, 11:00-13:00. Local labor Markets (A-138)

Chair: B. Boualam

G. Faggio, T. Schlueter*
Local multipliers in local labour markets - A case study of the move of the German government to Berlin
A. Taskin*
Sorted and Settled: Migration Decisions of Dual Income Families
B. Boualam*
Getting a first job: quality of the labor matching in French cities

EPAINOS 02. Thu, Aug 28, 11:00-13:00. Urban economics (A-139)

Chair: P. Charnoz

S. Waights*
Gentrification and displacement in English cities
M. Bléhaut*
How does a change in risk perception affect the housing market ? Evidence from an industrial accident in France
P. Charnoz*
French enterprise zone program : did it help the residents of deprived neighborhoods ?

04A. Thu, Aug 28, 14:00-16:00. Trade, transportation and localization (B-140)

Chair: H. Xu

Y. Murata*, R. Nakajima, R. Tamura
Testing for localization using micro-geographic data: A new approach
K. Behrens*, M. Brown, T. Bougna
The Determinants of Agglomeration Redux: Transportation, Trade, and Input-Output Linkages
Y. Konishi, S. Mun*, Y. Nishiyama, J. Sung
Measuring the value of transport time for inter-regional trade
H. Xu*
'Revisit' the Silk Road: A Quasi-Experiment Approach Estimating the Effects of Railway Speed-Up Project on China-Central Asia Exports

04B. Thu, Aug 28, 14:00-16:00. Housing and land markets (B-141)

Chair: G. Ahlfeldt

J. Dekkers, M. Micheli*, J. Rouwendal
Border Effects in House Prices
J. Zax*
Housing allocations, imputed rents and inequality in urban China
E. Oikarinen*, E. Valtonen
Regional variation in the elasticity of supply of housing, and its determinants: The case of a small sparsely populated country
G. Ahlfeldt*, D. McMillen
New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution of Land for Capital

05A. Thu, Aug 28, 16:15-18:15. Regional development and growth (B-140)

Chair: R. Florax

E. Lin, S. Peng*, C. Yu
Housing Market and Agglomeration of Rent-Seeking Activities: Implications for Regional Development
T. Cavalcanti, D. Da Mata*, F. Toscani
Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth
D. Castells-Quintana*, V. Royuela
Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
R. Florax*, W. Masters, M. Motamed
Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level

05B. Thu, Aug 28, 16:15-18:15. City size distributions (B-141)

Chair: H. De Groot

W. Hsu, T. Mori*, T. Smith
Spatial patterns and size distributions of cities
R. González-Val*, A. Ramos, F. Sanz-Gracia
A new framework for US city size distribution: Empirical evidence and theory
H. De Groot*, M. Kamphorst, P. Mulder
The Urban Hierarchy Unraveled: A Meta-Analysis on the Rank-Size Rule

* Presenter