6th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
at the 56th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
August 23-26, 2016
Vienna, Austria
Programme Committee: Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE, Chair), Kristian Behrens (UQAM Montreal) and Stephan Heblich (Bristol)
Conference Program
There are no discussants in UEA sessions.
01A. Wednesday 9:00-10:30. Urban Structure 1 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez
- William Strange, Crocker Liu, Stuart Rosenthal
The vertical city: Rent gradients and spatial structure
Presented by: William Strange
- Pierre M Picard, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Pascal Mossay
Urban structure under forward and backward linkages
Presented by: Pierre M Picard
- Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez
All roads lead to Rome ... and to sprawl? Evidence from European cities
Presented by: Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez
01B. Wednesday 9:00-10:30. Shopping and Retail (TC.3.07)
Chair: Jos Van Ommeren
- Ioulia Ossokina, Coen Teulings
The urban economics of retail
Presented by: Ioulia Ossokina
- Hans Koster, Ilias Pasidis, Jos van Ommeren
On shopping externalities: Should we subsidize shops in city centres?
Presented by: Hans Koster
- jos Van Ommeren
The external cruising costs of parking
Presented by: Jos Van Ommeren
02A. Wednesday 11:00-12:30. Transport 1 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Samira Barzin
- Helen Simpson, Joshua De Lyon, Stephan Heblich
Commuting fast and slow: The effects of high speed rail
Presented by: Helen Simpson
- Daniel Hörcher, Daniel Graham
Crowding pricing in public transport under second-best capacity provision
Presented by: Daniel Hörcher
- Samira Barzin, Daniel J. Graham, Sabine D'Costa
A pseudo-panel approach to estimating dynamic effects of road infrastructure provision on firm output in a developing country context
Presented by: Samira Barzin
02B. Wednesday 11:00-12:30. Place-Based Policies (TC.3.07)
Chair: Stephan Heblich
- Henry Overman
The economic impact of regeneration projects
Presented by: Henry Overman
- Yashar Blouri, Maximilian von Ehrlich
Place-based policies and the geography of economic activity: A structural approach
Presented by: Yashar Blouri
- Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew, Yanos Zylberberg
East Side Story: Historical pollution and persistent neighborhood sorting
Presented by: Stephan Heblich
03A. Wednesday 14:00-15:30. Urban Policy 2 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Barry Scholnick
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Wolfgang Maennig, Malte Steenbeck
Après nous le déluge? Direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies
Presented by: Gabriel Ahlfeldt
- Marius Brülhart, Jayson Danton, Raphaël Parchet
Local income tax capitalization with potentially elastic housing supply
Presented by: Marius Brülhart
- Barry Scholnick, Hyungsuk Byun
Bankruptcies after the removal of neighborhood slot machines
Presented by: Barry Scholnick
03B. Wednesday 14:00-15:30. Theory 1 (TC.3.07)
Chair: Sergey Kichko
- Yasusada Murata, Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Jens Suedekum
Distorted monopolistic competition
Presented by: Yasusada Murata
- Tadashi Morita, Takanori Ago, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Elastic labor supply and agglomeration
Presented by: Tadashi Morita
- Sergey Kichko
Competition, optimality, and relative factor endowments
Presented by: Sergey Kichko
04A. Wednesday 16:00-17:30. Real Estate 1 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Paul Cheshire
- Lu Han
Employment networks in the professions
Presented by: Lu Han
- Paul Cheshire, Jemma Mouland, Steve Gibbons
Health begins with people: An RCT study to test the effects of a housing provider’s health interventions
Presented by: Paul Cheshire
04B. Wednesday 16:00-17:30. Theory 2 (TC.3.07)
Chair: Rémi Lemoy
- Rainald Borck, Jan Brueckner
Optimal energy taxation in cities
Presented by: Rainald Borck
- Matthias Wrede
A continuous spatial choice logit model of a monocentric city with multiple income classes
Presented by: Matthias Wrede
- Rémi Lemoy, Charles Raux, Pablo Jensen
Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited
Presented by: Rémi Lemoy
05A. Thursday 09:00-10:30. Cities and Countries (TC.3.07)
Chair: Jeffrey Zax
- Yi Niu, Chengri Ding
Market size and the productivity of cities
Presented by: Yi Niu
- Kenmei Tsubota
Partition, independence, and population geography in Bengal
Presented by: Kenmei Tsubota
- Jeffrey Zax
Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-regional inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Presented by: Jeffrey Zax
06A. Thursday 11:00-12:30. Epainos: Agglomeration Economies and the Labour Market (TC.3.08)
Chair: Alessandra Faggian
- Jan Cornelius Peters
Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities
Presented by: Jan Cornelius Peters
- Licia Ferranna, Margherita Gerolimetto, Stefano Magrini
Urban governance structure and wage disparities in US metropolitan areas
Presented by: Licia Ferranna
- Tobias Seidel, Marcel Henkel
Geography and spatial inequality
Presented by: Marcel Henkel
06B. Thursday 11:00-12:30. Epainos: Jobs and Social Networks (TC.3.09)
Chair: Stephan Heblich
- Zhiling Wang
A paradox of economic prosperity and social integration?
Presented by: Zhiling Wang
- Tina Wallin
Self-employment as a career choice - Incorporating children into the equation
Presented by: Tina Wallin
06C. Thursday 11:00-12:30. Epainos: Hedonic Evaluation of Amenities (TC.4.12)
Chair: Paul Cheshire
- Mathilde Poulhes
A room with a view or rear window? Hedonic prices of the Parisian real-estate
Presented by: Mathilde Poulhes
- Jacob Macdonald, Sofia Franco
Tree canopies, urban green amenities and the residential real estate market: Remote sensing and spatial hedonic applications to Lisbon, Portugal
Presented by: Jacob Macdonald
07A. Thursday 14:00-15:30. Transport 2 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Lionel Vedrine
- Kilian Heilmann
The effect of transit provision on neighborhood characteristics
Presented by: Kilian Heilmann
- Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Amanda Ross
The impact of vehicle quota premiums on the housing price gradient in Singapore
Presented by: Amanda Ross
- Sophie Legras, Lionel Vedrine
Do urban tolls really help us breathe easier? An evaluation of the impact of urban tolls on air quality
Presented by: Lionel Vedrine
08A. Thursday 16:00-17:30. Urban Policy 1 (TC.3.06)
Chair: Hildegunn Stokke
- Ari Hyytinen, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tuukka Saarimaa, Otto Toivanen, Janne Tukiainen
Public employees as politicians: Evidence from close elections
Presented by: Tuukka Saarimaa
- Hildegunn Stokke
Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages: Heterogeneous effects across education groups
Presented by: Hildegunn Stokke
- Guido De Blasio, Marta Auricchio, Emanuele Ciani, Alberto Dalmazzo
The consequences of public employment: A local analysis
Presented by: Guido De Blasio
08B. Thursday 16:00-17:30. Migration (TC.4.12)
Chair: Matz Dahlberg
- Matthias Dorner, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Tina Hinz, Stefan Bender
Social ties and patent quality signals – Quasi experimental evidence from East German inventor migration
Presented by: Matthias Dorner
- Heléne Lundqvist, Matz Dahlberg, Henrik Andersson
Migrating natives and foreign immigration
Presented by: Matz Dahlberg
- Dafeng Xu
Migration of skilled labor driven by cultural assimilation: Evidence from advanced degree holders from China
Presented by: Dafeng Xu