5th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
at the 55th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
August 25-29, 2015
Lisbon, Portugal
Programme Committee: Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE), Kristian Behrens (UQAM Montreal, Chair) and Jens Suedekum (Duesseldorf)
Conference Program
There are no discussants in UEA sessions.
01A. Wednesday 11:00-13:00. Size and Place-Based Policies (Auditorium NB)
Chair: De Blasio, Guido
- Tomoya Mori, Tony Smith
On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations
Presented by: Mori, Tomoya
- Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum
The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas
Presented by: Schmidheiny, Kurt
- Tobias Seidel, Maximilian von Ehrlich
The persistent effects of placed-based policy - Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
Presented by: Seidel, Tobias
- Guido De Blasio, Emanuele Ciani
European Structural Funds During the Crisis: Evidence from Southern Italy
Presented by: De Blasio, Guido
01B. Wednesday 11:00-13:00. Transportation 1 (Anfiteatro 1)
Chair: Pasidis, Ilias-Nikiforos
- Jos Van Ommeren, Martin Adler
Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? Quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes
Presented by: van Ommeren, Jos
- Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, Frederico Ramos
The impact of public transport expansions on informality: the case of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region
Presented by: Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel
- Ilias-Nikiforos Pasidis, Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
Express delivery to the suburbs. Transport Infrastructure and European cities.
Presented by: Pasidis, Ilias-Nikiforos
02A. Wednesday 14:00-16:00. Trade 1 (Auditorium NB)
Chair: Pflüger, Michael
- Kristian Behrens, Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, Yasusada Murata
New trade models, elusive welfare gains
Presented by: Murata, Yasusada
- Jens Wrona
Border Effects Without Borders
Presented by: Wrona, Jens
- Michiel Gerritse
Does trade cause long-run development? Theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Presented by: Gerritse, Michiel
- Michael Pflüger, Oliver Krebs
Much Ado About Nothing? A Quantitative Analysis of Transatlantic Trade Liberalization
Presented by: Pflüger, Michael
02B. Wednesday 14:00-16:00. Housing and Amenities (Anfiteatro 1)
Chair: Macdonald, Jacob
- Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber, Hans Koster
Regulating vacancies away? The paradoxical effects of mismatch in the housing market
Presented by: Cheshire, Paul
- Hans Koster, Jos van Ommeren
Land use planning, urban spatial structure and the office market: Evidence from Blitz bombings
Presented by: Koster, Hans
- Jacob Macdonald, Sofia Franco
The Effects of Tangible Immovable Cultural Heritage on Residential Property Values: Evidence from Lisbon, Portugal
Presented by: Macdonald, Jacob
03A. Wednesday 16:15-18:15. Trade 2 (Auditorium NB)
Chair: Acceturo, Antonio
- Kristian Behrens, Vera Sharunova
Inter- and intrafirm linkages: Evidence from microgeographic location patterns
Presented by: Behrens, Kristian
- Alessandro Sforza
Managers' knowledge and Trade Performance
Presented by: Sforza, Alessandro
- Antonio Accetturo, Andrea Linarello, Andrea Petrella
Judiciary efficiency and trade in tasks
Presented by: Acceturo, Antonio
03B. Wednesday 16:15-18:15. Transportation 2 (Anfiteatro 1)
Chair: D'Costa, Sabine
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew Turner, Loren Brandt, Qinghua Zhang
Transport Infrastructure, Urban Growth and Market Access in China
Presented by: Baum-Snow, Nathaniel
- Nicholas Sheard
Airport Improvements and Urban Growth
Presented by: Sheard, Nicolas
- Sabine D'Costa, Daniel Graham
Causal inference for ex-post evaluation of transport interventions
Presented by: D'Costa, Sabine
04A. Thursday 11:00-13:00. Labor Markets, Epainos (Delta)
Chair: Murata, Yasusada
- Francesco Berlingieri
Local labour market size and qualification mismatch
Presented by: Berlingieri, Francesco
- Jasper van Dijk
The effect of unemployment on the local employment multiplier and migration in U.S. cities
Presented by: van Dijk, Jasper
- Antonio Miscio
Trade shocks and workers’ location choice, a dynamic approach with endogenous housing.
Presented by: Miscio, Antonio
04B. Thursday 11:00-13:00. Agglomeration, Epainos (Santander)
Chair: Behrens, Kristian
- Maria Sanchez Vidal
Large establishments and local entrepreneurs: Evidence from the retail sector
Presented by: Sanchez Vidal, Maria
- Federico Curci
The taller the better? Agglomeration determinants and urban structure
Presented by: Curci, Federico
05A. Thursday 14:00-16:00. Urban Economics (Auditorium NB)
Chair: Watanabe, Hiroki
- Hiroki Watanabe
A Spatial Production Economy Explains Gross Metropolitan Product
Presented by: Watanabe, Hiroki
- Pierre Picard, Yves Zenou
Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties
Presented by: Picard, Pierre
- Rainald Borck, Takatoshi Tabuchi
Pollution and city size: can cities be too small?
Presented by: Borck, Rainald
- Philip Ushchev
The sources of sharing externalities: Specialization vs Competition
Presented by: Ushchev, Philip
05B. Thursday 14:00-16:00. Mobility (Anfiteatro 1)
Chair: Hilber, Christian
- Christian Hilber, Teemu Lyytikainen
Housing Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labour Market?
Presented by: Hilber, Christian
- Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Atilla Lindner
What Are The Returns To Regional Mobility? Evidence From Mass Layoffs
Presented by: Dauth, Wolfgang
- Matthias Wrede, Rainald Borck
Spatial and social mobility
Presented by: Wrede, Matthias
- Hildegunn Stokke, Jørn Rattsø
Handling amenities in income taxation: Analysis of tax distortions in a migration equilibrium model
Presented by: Stokke, Hildegunn
06A. Thursday 16:15-18:15. Skills and Segregation (Auditorium NB)
Chair: Gonzales, Nicolas
- Nicolas Gonzalez Pampillon, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
Can Urban Renewal Policies Reverse Ethnic Tipping Points?
Presented by: Gonzales, Nicolas
- Yuming Fu, Yang Hao
An Urban Accounting for Geographic Concentration of Skills and Welfare Inequality
Presented by: Fu, Yuming
- Henry G. Overman, Clement Bosquet
Home versus home-town: What do we mean by spatial sorting?
Presented by: Overman, Henry
- Jorge De la Roca, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Justin Peter Steil
Are barrios good or bad? The effects of metropolitan area segregation on Latino outcomes
Presented by: De la Roca, Jorge