7th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
At the Kraks Fond - Institute for Urban Economic Research
May 26-27, 2017
Copenhagen, Denmark
Programme Committee: Stephan Heblich (Bristol, Chair), Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE), Miren Lafourcade (Paris-Sud), Ismir Mulalic (DTU and Kraks Fond), and Elisabet Viladecans (Barcelona).
Program Overview
Detailled Program
May 29:00 to 10:The Queens Hall
Keynote Lecture I
- Thomas Holmes
TBA
Presented by: Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota)
May 210:30 to 12:The Event Room
01A. Gentrification I
- Kristian Behrens
Cities in motion: Gentrification and local businesses
Presented by: Kristian Behrens (Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Kentaro Nakajima, Kensuke Teshima
Identifying Neighborhood Effects among Firms: Evidence from Location Lotteries of the Tokyo Fish Market
Presented by: Kentaro Nakajima (Tohoku University)
- Sevrin Waights
Gentrification and displacement in British cities
Presented by: Sevrin Waights (LSE)
- Yuming Fu, Song Shi
Shaking Up Christchurch: The 2Earthquakes and Barriers to Urban Growth
Presented by: Yuming Fu (National University of Singapore)
May 210:30 to 12:15
01B. Transportation I
- Stephan Fretz, Raphael Parchet, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
Highway, Market Access and Spatial Sorting
Presented by: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (HEC Lausanne)
- David Audretsch, Dirk Dohse, Joao Pereira dos Santos
Do free highways foster firm formation and employment growth? Results from a quasi-natural experiment
Presented by: Dirk Dohse (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
- Cong Peng
The Impact of Subway on the Employment of Firms
Presented by: Cong Peng (London School of Economics)
- Ioulia Ossokina, Jos Van Ommeren
Effects of highway extensions on the real estate market: evidence from panel data
Presented by: Ioulia Ossokina (Eindhoven University of Technology)
May 210:30 to 12:15
01C. Cities in Developing Countries I (Holberg 2)
- Yongyang Cai, Harris Selod, Jevgenijs Steinbuks
Urbanization and Land Property Rights
Presented by: Harris Selod (The World Bank)
- Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez, Ana Moreno-Monroy
Let's teardown the slums! Income segregation and urban spatial structure in Brazil
Presented by: Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & Institut d'Economia de Barcelona)
- Tiago Cavalcanti, Marcelo dos Santos
Gray Zones: Slums and Urban Structure in Developing Countries
Presented by: Marcelo dos Santos (Insper )
- Nicolás González Pampillón
Does a subsidy to housing supply attract residential property investments?
Presented by: Nicolás González Pampillón (Universitat de Barcelona)
May 210:30 to 12:15
01D. Housing I (The house of Kraks Fond)
- Filipa Sa
The Effect of Foreign Investors on Local Housing Markets: Evidence from the UK
Presented by: Filipa Sa (Kings College London)
- Christian Hilber, Olivier Schoeni
The Housing Market Impacts of Constraining Second Home Investments
Presented by: Christian Hilber (London School of Economics)
- Erlend Bø
Buy to let: Endogenous rents and investment buyers in a housing search model
Presented by: Erlend Bø (Statistics Norway)
- Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley
Housing Wealth, Bequests, and the Elderly
Presented by: Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley (Kent State University)
May 210:30 to 12:15
01E. Local Labor Markets I (Blixen)
- Francesco David, Emanuele Ciani, Guido de Blasio
Local Labor Market Heterogeneity in Italy: Estimates and Simulations Using Responses to Labor Demand Shocks
Presented by: Francesco David (Bank of Italy)
- Ines Helm
National Industry Trade Shocks, Local Labor Markets and Agglomeration Spillovers
Presented by: Ines Helm (Stockholm University)
- Gerald Carlino
Are Startups Special? Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Presented by: Gerald Carlino (Federal Reseve Bank of Philadelphia)
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Elisabetta Pietrostefani
The economic effects of density: A synthesis
Presented by: Elisabetta Pietrostefani (London School of Economics)
May 213:15 to 15:00
02A. Urban Structure, Housing and Employment
- Marcus Asplund, David Genesove
Multi-agent Bargaining under Asymmetric Information: Retrofitting an Elevator
Presented by: Marcus Asplund (Copenhagen Business School)
- Crocker Liu, Stuart Rosenthal, William Strange
Vertical Density and Agglomeration Economies
Presented by: William Strange (University of Toronto)
- Charles-Marie Chevalier, Raphaël Lardeux
Homeownership and labor market frictions: reconciling individual and aggregate perspectives
Presented by: Charles-Marie Chevalier (Insee)
- Pierre-Daniel Sarte
Rethinking Detroit
Presented by: Pierre-Daniel Sarte (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
May 213:15 to 15:00
02B. Environmental Issues
- Minhong Xu, Yilan Xu
Environmental Hazards and Mortgage Credit Risk: Evidence from Texas Pipeline Incidents
Presented by: Minhong Xu (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Stephan Heblich
Fear of Fracking? The impact of the shale gas exploration on house prices in Britain
Presented by: Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol)
- Rainald Borck
Public transport and urban pollution
Presented by: Rainald Borck (University of Potsdam)
- Ilias Pasidis, Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez, Elisabet Viladecans
Urban congestion and air pollution in Europe
Presented by: Ilias Pasidis (Universitat de Barcelona)
May 213:15 to 15:00
02C. Real Estate I
- Masatomo Suzuki, Yasushi Asami
Quick sales in the cold housing market
Presented by: Masatomo Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)
- David Genesove, James Hansen
The Role of Auctions and Negotiation in Housing Prices
Presented by: David Genesove (Hebrew U Jerusalem)
- Mattias Nordin, Luca Repetto, Alex Solis
The Price of Inattention: Evidence from the Swedish Housing Market
Presented by: Luca Repetto (Uppsala University)
- André Anundsen, Knut Are Aastveit
Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in regional housing markets
Presented by: André Anundsen (Norges Bank)
May 213:15 to 15:00
02D. Spatial Effects of Weather Shocks
- Daniel Wilson
The Impact of Weather on Local and National Employment: Using Big Data on Small Places
Presented by: Daniel Wilson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Nathalie Picarelli
Cholera in Times of Floods. Weather shocks & health impacts in Dar es Salaam
Presented by: Nathalie Picarelli (LSE)
- Aude-Sophie Rodella, Sebastien Desbureaux
Drops, Blocks and Shocks: Understanding the impact of rainfall shocks on socio-economic outcomes in metropolitan LAC and the role of role of WAS infrastructure to mitigate them
Presented by: Aude-Sophie Rodella (World Bank)
- Louise Bernard
The impact of weather shock in Kenya on Nairobi Land Prices
Presented by: Louise Bernard (LSE)
May 213:15 to 15:00
02E. Local Public Policies
- Oskari Harjunen, Tuukka Saarimaa, Janne Tukiainen
Regional Distribution of Political Power and Effects of Municipal Mergers
Presented by: Tuukka Saarimaa (VATT Institute for Economic Research)
- Gabriel Loumeau, Marko Koethenbuerger, Peter Egger
Municipal Mergers and Economic Activity: Evidence from Germany
Presented by: Gabriel Loumeau (ETH Zurich)
- Shota Fujishima
A Network Theory-based Delineation of Metropolitan Areas with Mass People Flow Data
Presented by: Shota Fujishima (Tokyo University of Science)
May 215:30 to 16:45
03A. Student Prize I
- Marco Di Cataldo
Organised Crime within Local Governments: Evidence from Southern Italy
Presented by: Marco Di Cataldo (London School of Economics)
- Hayoung Kim
Do Homebuyers Pay a Premium for 'Best Places to Live' Cities?
Presented by: Hayoung Kim (London School of Economics)
- Cheng Keat Tang
The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
Presented by: Cheng Keat Tang (London School of Economics)
May 215:30 to 16:45
03B. Student Prize II
- Andrii Parkhomenko
The Rise of Housing Supply Regulation in the U.S.: Local Causes and Aggregate Implications
Presented by: Andrii Parkhomenko (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona GSE)
- Mariona Segú
Taxing Vacant Dwellings: Can fiscal policy reduce vacancy?
Presented by: Mariona Segú (Université Paris Sud)
- Sven Damen, Geert Goeyvaerts
Improve, move or wait under the same roof: a dynamic model with underwater mortgages
Presented by: Geert Goeyvaerts (KU Leuven)
May 215:30 to 16:45
03C. Student Prize III
- Federico Curci
Vertical and horizontal cities: in which direction should cities grow?
Presented by: Federico Curci (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Jayson Danton, Alexander Himbert
Residential Vertical Rent Gradients in the City
Presented by: Jayson Danton (University of Lausanne)
- Christopher Severen
Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification
Presented by: Christopher Severen (University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 215:30 to 16:45
03D. Student Prize IV
- Maria Balgova
Labour market frictions and regional disparities
Presented by: Maria Balgova (University of Oxford)
- Huyen Tran
Endogenous Urban Structure and Urban Green Spaces
Presented by: Huyen Tran (University of Luxembourg)
- Jessica Hug
City-biased technological change
Presented by: Jessica Hug (University of Geneva)
May 217:00 to 18:45
04A. Spatial Economic Theory 1
- Kristian Behrens, Yasusada Murata
On quantitative spatial models
Presented by: Yasusada Murata (Nihon University)
- Sergey Kichko, Philipp Ushchev
Competition in cities: pro-competitive effects vs urban cost
Presented by: Sergey Kichko (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
- David Albouy, Kristian Behrens, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Nathan Seegert
The Optimal Distribution of Population across Cities
Presented by: David Albouy (University of Illinois)
- Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga
Urban growth and its aggregate implications
Presented by: Diego Puga (CEMFI)
May 217:00 to 18:45
04B. Residential Sorting
- Ismir Mulalic, Ninette Pilegaard, Jan Rouwendal
Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the Copenhagen metropolitan area
Presented by: Ismir Mulalic (Kraks Fond)
- Jan Rouwendal
Sorting based on urban heritage and income:Evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area
Presented by: Jan Rouwendal (VU University Amsterdam)
- Patrick Bayer, Peter Blair, Yifan Ye
The Consequences of Decentralized Racial Sorting
Presented by: Yifan Ye (Duke University)
- Carl Gaigne, Hans Koster, Fabien MOIZEAU, Jacques Thisse
Amenities and the Social Structure of Cities
Presented by: Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
May 217:00 to 18:45
04C. Transportation in Developing Countries
- Prottoy Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard
Transport and Congestion—Lessons from Indian cities
Presented by: Victor Couture (University of California, Berkeley)
- Hadia Majid, Ammar Malik, Kate Vyborny
Microeconomic Impacts of Public Transit: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan
Presented by: Kate Vyborny (Duke University)
- Gilles Duranton
Measuring congestion in a highly congested city: Bogotá
Presented by: Gilles Duranton (Wharton)
- Stephen Gibbons
Airports, Market Access and Local Economic Performance: Evidence for China
Presented by: Stephen Gibbons (Department of Geography and Environment)
May 217:00 to 18:45
04D. New Economic Geography
- Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Matteo Salto
Geography, Competition, and Optimal Multilateral Trade Policy
Presented by: Antonella Nocco (University of Salento)
- Wenya Cheng, Andrei Potlogea
Trade Liberalization and Economic Development: Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Presented by: Andrei Potlogea (University of Edinburgh)
- Flavio Toxvaerd
REGULATORY COMPETITION
Presented by: Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge)
- Marcel Henkel, Tobias Seidel
A spatial perspective on European Integration: Heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the Single Market and the Brexit
Presented by: Marcel Henkel (University of Duisburg-Essen)
May 217:00 to 18:45
04E. Local Labor Markets 2
- Wolfgang Briglauer, Niklas Duerr, Oliver Falck, Kai Hueschelrath
Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Presented by: Niklas Duerr (ZEW Mannheim)
- Clément Bosquet, Henry Overman
Why does birthplace matter so much? Sorting, learning and geography
Presented by: Henry Overman (London School of Economics)
- Jens Suedekum
Spatial wage disparities – Workers, firms, and assortative matching
Presented by: Jens Suedekum (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
- Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Raoul Maarseveen
Regional Sorting, firm heterogeneity and Exporting: Regional exporting in The Nethelands
Presented by: Steven Brakman (University of Groningen)
May 29:00 to 10:00
Keynote Lecture II
- Vernon Henderson
TBA
Presented by: Vernon Henderson (London School of Economics)
May 210:30 to 12:15
05A. Neighborhood Effects: Crime
- Daniel McMillen, Ignacio Sarmiento Barbieri, Ruchi Singh
Do More Eyes on the Street Reduce Crime? Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passage Program
Presented by: Ignacio Sarmiento Barbieri (University of Illinois)
- Stephen Billings, Kevin Schnepel
Hanging Out with the Usual Suspects: Neighborhood Peer Effects and Recidivism
Presented by: Stephen Billings (University of Colorado)
- Gabriel Pons Rotger
Neighborhood Effects on Youth Crime: Natural Experimental Evidence
Presented by: Gabriel Pons Rotger (The Danish National Centre for Social Research)
- Ilaria De Angelis, Guido de Blasio, Lucia Rizzica
Lost in corruption. Evidence from EU funding to Southern Italy
Presented by: Lucia Rizzica (Bank of Italy)
May 210:30 to 12:15
05B. Local Industries
- Uwe Blien, Oliver Ludewig
Effects of Technological Progress on Employment Development
Presented by: Uwe Blien (IAB)
- William Hanlon
Dynamic Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding: From Wood to Steel
Presented by: William Hanlon (UCLA)
- Brahim Boualam
Are clusters resilient? Evidence from Canadian textile industries
Presented by: Brahim Boualam (Université du Québec à Montréal )
- Michel Serafinelli, Guido Tabellini
Creativity over Time and Space
Presented by: Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto)
May 210:30 to 12:15
05C. Retail
- Maria Sanchez Vidal
Retail shocks and city structure
Presented by: Maria Sanchez Vidal (London School of Economics & IEB)
- Ilias Pasidis, Hans Koster, Jos Van Ommeren
Shopping externalities and retail concentration: Evidence from Dutch shopping streets
Presented by: Jos Van Ommeren (VU University Amsterdam)
- Tingyu Zhou
Does Entry Regulation of Big-box Stores Protect the Retail Sector? Evidence from Store Cap Ordinances in the U.S.
Presented by: Tingyu Zhou (John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal Canada)
- Achim Czerny, Hanxiang ZHANG
Airport and City-center Rivalry
Presented by: Achim Czerny (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
May 210:30 to 12:15
05D. Commuting (Holberg 1)
- Wolfgang Dauth, Peter Haller
The valuation of changes in commuting distances: An analysis using georeferenced data
Presented by: Wolfgang Dauth (University of Wuerzburg)
- Martin Adler, Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Jos van Ommeren
Road congestion and public transit
Presented by: Martin Adler (VU Univeristy Amsterdam)
- Jonas Eliasson, Mogens Fosgerau
Cost-benefit analysis of transport improvements in the presence of spillovers, matching and an income tax
Presented by: Mogens Fosgerau (Technical University of Denmark)
- Or Levkovich, Jan Rouwendal, Jos Van Ommeren
The impact of highways on population redistribution: The role of land development restrictions
Presented by: Or Levkovich (VU University Amsterdam)
May 210:30 to 12:15
05E. Housing II
- Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Presented by: Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics)
- Naqun Huang, Jing Li, Amanda Ross
Home Equity and the Timing of Claiming Social Security Retirement Income
Presented by: Amanda Ross (The University of Alabama)
- Antonio Accetturo, Andrea Lamorgese, Sauro Mocetti, Dario Pellegrino
Housing supply elasticity and growth
Presented by: Sauro Mocetti (Bank of Italy)
- YI ZHAN
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Home Ownership
Presented by: YI ZHAN (University of South Carolina)
May 213:30 to 15:15
06A. Transportation II
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt
Ease vs. noise: On the conflicting effects of transportation infrastructure
Presented by: Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE)
- Jeffrey Brinkman, Jeffrey Lin
Freeway revolts! Highways, downtown amenities, and urban growth
Presented by: Jeffrey Brinkman (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
- Chelsea Carter
The Road to the Urban Interstates: A Case Study from Detroit
Presented by: Chelsea Carter (Boston University)
- Luca Casolaro
Please in my back yard: the impact of a new tramline on property values in Florence
Presented by: Luca Casolaro (Bank of Italy)
May 213:30 to 15:15
06B. Real Estate II
- Stuart Gabriel, Matteo Iacoviello, Chandler Lutz
A Crisis of Missed Opportunities? Foreclosure Costs and Mortgage Modification During the Great Recession
Presented by: Chandler Lutz (Copenhagen Business School)
- Ben Sand
Local Economic Conditions and Local Equity Preferences: Evidence from Mutual Funds during the U.S. Housing Boom and Bust
Presented by: Aleksandra Rzeznik (Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien)
- Guglielmo Barone, Francesco David, Guido de Blasio, Sauro Mocetti
How do house prices respond to credit supply?
Presented by: Guglielmo Barone (Bank of Italy)
- Holger Rasmussen, Hans Henrik Woltmann, Ismir Mulalic, Jan Rouwendal
The Financial Crisis and Diverging House Prices
Presented by: Holger Rasmussen (Kraks Fond Byforskning)
May 213:30 to 15:15
06C. Spatial Economic Theory II
- Mogens Fosgerau, Jinwon Kim, Abhishek Ranjan
Vickrey Meets Alonso: Commute Scheduling and Congestion in a Monocentric City
Presented by: Abhishek Ranjan (Technical University of Denmark)
- Matthias Wrede
Adjustment of the hedonic quality of life measure for search frictions on urban housing markets
Presented by: Matthias Wrede (University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Kristof Dascher
Urban Political Economy according to the Greatest Cumulative Ring Difference
Presented by: Kristof Dascher (Regensburg University)
- Philipp Ushchev
Segregated vs mixed land-use patterns: the role of demand revisited
Presented by: Philipp Ushchev (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
May 213:30 to 15:15
06D. Gentrification II
- Francesco Andreoli, Eugenio Peluso
So close yet so unequal: Reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities
Presented by: Francesco Andreoli (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Daniel Hartley, Kwan Ok Lee
Long Run Consequences of Neighborhood Change
Presented by: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Rotman School of Management, University )
- Enrico Berkes, Ruben Gaetani
Segregation in U.S. Cities and Rise of the Knowledge Economy
Presented by: Enrico Berkes (Northwestern University)
- Donald Davis, Jonathan Dingel, Joan Monras
How Segregated is Urban Consumption?
Presented by: Donald Davis (Columbia University)
May 213:30 to 15:15
06E. Place-based Policies
- Oliver Falck, Johannes Koenen, Tobias Lohse
Evaluating a Place-Based Innovation Policy: Evidence from the Innovative Regional Growth Cores Program in East Germany
Presented by: Johannes Koenen (ifo Institute)
- Matthias Brachert
Identifying the effects of place-based policies – Causal evidence from Germany
Presented by: Matthias Brachert (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
- Rosa Sanchis-Guarner, Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber
Do English Planning Policies Make Shopping More Sustainable?
Presented by: Rosa Sanchis-Guarner (Imperial College Business School and CEP/LSE)
- Andrea Lamorgese, Andrea Petrella
Mechanisms of the urban productivity premium: evidence from Italian firms
Presented by: Andrea Petrella (Banca d'Italia)
May 216:00 to 17:15
07A. Public Housing
- Pascal Jaupart
Social Housing and Immigrant Segregation: Evidence from France
Presented by: Pascal Jaupart (London School of Economics)
- Essi Eerola, Teemu Lyytikäinen
Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme
Presented by: Essi Eerola (VATT Institute for Economic Research)
- Bence Boje-Kovacs, Jane Greve, Cecilie Weatherall
Can changing neighborhood affect mental health? Evidence from a quasi-experiment of random social housing allocation
Presented by: Cecilie Weatherall (Kraks Fond Institute for Urban Economic Research)
May 216:00 to 17:15
07B. Taxation and Local Public Finance
- Marius Brülhart, Marcus Roller, Kurt Schmidheiny
The Elasticity of Local Taxable Income: Evidence from Switzerland
Presented by: Kurt Schmidheiny (Universität Basel)
- Tobias Seidel
Fiscal equalization in the spatial economy
Presented by: Tobias Seidel (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Sylvie Charlot
From competition to cooperation: On the spatial effects of a local business tax policy reform in France
Presented by: Sylvie Charlot (University of Lyon)
May 216:00 to 17:15
07C. Local Public Policy II
- Andrew Hanson, Shawn Rohlin
Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Incentives Work? The Answer Depends on How You Ask the Question
Presented by: Shawn Rohlin (Kent State University)
- Felipe Carozzi
Distributive Politics inside the City? The Political Economy of Spain’s Plan E
Presented by: Felipe Carozzi (London School of Economics)
- Dirk Foremny, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Albert Sole Olle
‘Hold that ghost’: Using notches to identify manipulation of population-based grants
Presented by: Jordi Jofre-Monseny (Universitat de Barcelona)
May 216:00 to 17:15
07D. Cities in Developing Countries II
- Jeffrey Zax
Minimum standards of living, income and positional concerns in mid-reform urban China
Presented by: Jeffrey Zax (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- Ana Diaz, Luz Salas
Do firms redline workers? A controlled experiment in Bogotá
Presented by: Luz Salas (Universidad Javeriana)
- Philipp Ehrl, Leonardo Monasterio
Immigration, cultural diversity and wages in Brazil
Presented by: Leonardo Monasterio (UCB Ipea)
May 216:00 to 17:15
07E. Education, Health and Geography
- Casper Worm Hansen
Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries
Presented by: Casper Worm Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
- Jorn Rattso, Hildegunn Stokke
Private sector valuation of public sector experience: The role of education and geography
Presented by: Hildegunn Stokke (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Olmo Silva
The Demand For Autonomous Schools
Presented by: Olmo Silva (London School of Economics)
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